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Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 1964 / Director: Alfred Hitchcock / Actors: Tippi Hedren, Sean ... more
Marnie (DVD) ... Connery ... / DVD released 17 October, 2005 at Universal Pictures UK / Features of the DVD: PAL / Both visually and psychologically, Marnie is crass in comparison with Hitchcock's peak achievement in Vertigo--although it shares some of that film's characteristic obsessive themes. Sean Connery, fresh from From Russia with Love, is a Philadelphia playboy who begins to fall for Tippi Hedren's blonde ice goddess only when he realises that she's a professional thief (she's come to work in his upper-crust insurance office in order to embezzle mass quantities). His patient programme of investigation and surveillance has a creepy, voyeuristic quality that's pure Hitchcock, but all's lost when it emerges that the root of Marnie's problem is phobic sexual frigidity, induced by a childhood trauma. Luckily, Sean is up to the challenge, as it were. Not even DH Lawrence believed as fervently as Hitchcock in the curative properties of sexual release. --David Chute

Newest Review: ... heroine, Marnie, was seen by some judges to be troubling, a view supported by rumours that Hitchcock had taken an unhealthy ... more

 ... and unwelcome interest in Tippi Hedren, the actress who plays her. Certainly Marnie is treated at one point in a way which would now be seen as unacceptable (and probably was then) by the frustrated hero (Sean Connery). Whatever the rights and wrongs of that, this remains an interesting film which tells an involving story and has many tense scenes which bear Hitchcock's hallmark. Marnie's compulsion to steal, the significance of the colour red and the reason for it, the very effective ending down by the docks, are all...more

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anonymili
Crowned Review Marnie (DVD): It Could Have Been Grace Kelly (1605 words)
by anonymili - written on 14/08/06 (Very useful, 211 readings)
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Marnie is one of my favourite Hitchcock movies. It stars the beautiful Tippi Hedren as Marnie Edgar and the gorgeous Sean Connery as Mark Rutland, with support from Diane Baker as Lil and Louise Latham as Bernice Edgar, and was released in 1964. The script was written by Jay Presson Allen and the book (of the same name) from which it was inspired was written by Winston Graham. Alan Napier appears as Mark’s father (remember him? He was Alfred in the original TV series of Batman!) The film runs for 130 minutes and is certified 15 due to some adult and violent scenes. The original (and extremely atmospheric) music for the film was by Bernard ...

sunmeilan
Premium Review The Colour Red (742 words)
by sunmeilan - written on 20/06/06 (Very useful, 160 readings)
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Introduction Being a fan of crime/thriller/psychological dramas, Alfred Hitchcock films have always appealed to me and I now have quite a collection. This is not one of the most famous of Alfred Hitchcock's films, but I believe it has been under-estimated and should be better-known than it is. The film was first released in 1964. The director Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstowe, England and died in 1980. His film-making career began in 1919, and by 1926 had made his name in the industry with the silent film, The Lodger. He moved to Hollywood in 1940, and afterwards directed a string of films for which he is most remembered, including To Catch a ...

oddgal
Premium Review Marnie (DVD): Are you seeing red? (456 words)
by oddgal - written on 04/04/01 (Very useful, 56 readings)
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I think "Marnie" is one of the lesser known Hitchcock greats. I watched it as part of my film studies course when we were doing a project on Hitchcock. I had heard of it, but hadn't actually seen it before and I quite liked it. "Marnie" is apparantley a quite complex film because of the psychology involved within it. But nevermind that I don't understand it all and you don't need too, to merely watch the film! So the story then. Ok, it begins with Marnie (Tippi Hedren) changing her identity. Well, washing dye out of her hair anyway! She has stolen money from the company she worked for and had to leave her job. She ...

 
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