Marnie

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Summary: HITCHCOCK`S LAST GREAT FILM
Review: MARNIE is Hitchcock`s psychological drama and it was was decades ahead of its time. TIPPI HEDREN and SEAN CONNERY great together...

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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: Although the film clearly deals with dark themes, I found the film highly inspirational and uplifiting. The character of Sean Connery, in full control of himself, despite the dangerous risks he takes, defying the prospect of some disaster, demonstrates the complete mastery of the superior man--noble, loyal, steadfastly standing by his woman in spite of all obstacles and objections.

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Summary: One of Hitch's greatest and darkest films.
Review: Not quite so universally underrated today, MARNIE is one of Hitchcock's greatest and darkest films. The film presents, in narrative and cinematic terms, Hitch's fascination with avoiding identity, intimacy and reality, and is entirely consistent with the abstract cinematic styles of his other mature color films like THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, VERTIGO and particularly THE BIRDS (with which MARNIE shares many common themes, particularly avoidance of intimacy). A truly great film that becomes more powerful with each viewing. And Bernard Herrmann's score is among his finest.

After 30 years of viewing and studying Hithcock's films, and having many favorites among them, I keep coming back to MARNIE as my personal favorite.

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Summary: Probably the best of all his later films
Review: This has to be one of the best films I have seen in recent months. Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren are excellent in this drama. I highly reccommend this tilte. END

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Summary: a disturbing movie to someone with PTSD
Review: I have PTSD. I've locked out large chunks of my childhood. I first saw Marnie when I was 17. It didn't knock my repressions loose, but it certainly stirred them up. I saw it again when I was in my forties, and I was recovering my memories. It knocked my socks off again. This movie would probably play completely differently to someone with a different history from mine. But it really hit it for me, and all those years when I was holding things down, I think it let me know that I was not alone.

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Summary: The masterpiece that is Marnie
Review: This is my favourite movie, probably because there isn't another film like it. It's a very intellegent and romantic thriller made just before movies started to tackle more 'adult' themes in a more graphic way. Marnie explores these themes but it is done in a romantasised and stylistic manner.

Hitchcock directs brilliantly as you'd expect and manages to coax a real tour de force from Tippi Hendren. Connery is in his prime and Louise Latham is truly staggering as Marnie's mother. The underated (and dead sexy) Diane Baker is also excellent.

I really can't recommend Marnie enough and this DVD is superb (better than the region 2 one).

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Summary: Hitchcock turns a thief into a victim
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Format: Color
Studio: Universal Studios
Video Release Date: August 3, 1999

Cast:

Tippi Hedren ... Marnie Edgar/Margaret Edgar/Peggy Nicholson/Mary Taylor
Sean Connery ... Mark Rutland
Diane Baker ... Lil Mainwaring
Martin Gabel ... Sidney Strutt
Louise Latham ... Bernice Edgar
Bob Sweeney ... Cousin Bob
Milton Selzer ... Man at Track
Mariette Hartley ... Susan Clabon
Alan Napier ... Mr. Rutland
Bruce Dern ... Sailor
Henry Beckman ... First Detective
S. John Launer ... Sam Ward
Edith Evanson ... Rita
Meg Wyllie ... Mrs. Turpin
John Hart
Alfred Hitchcock ... Man leaving hotel room
Rupert Crosse ... Office worker
Louise Lorimer ... Mrs. Strutt
Kimberly Beck ... Jesse
Carmen Phillips ... Sidney Strutt's secretary
Melody Thomas Scott ... Young Marnie

One of Hitchcock's masterpieces, and like many other of his efforts, a psychological drama.

Marnie (Tippi Hedren) was a kleptomaniac, a compulsive thief. She supported her mother, Bernice Edgar (Louise Latham), who was a stern, domineering person of religious conviction with high standards of personal conduct, and who had turned her daughter into a man-hater.

Enter Mark Rutland (Sean Connery) who marries Marnie, knowing that she is a thief and liar, but unaware of all of her serious hang-ups. However, as the problems begin to surface, he tries to solve them.

Grace Kelly was originally considered for the part of Marnie, but was already the princess of Monaco and her subjects were less than enthusiastic about it, and besides, the picture was being made by Universal while she was still under contract to MGM, so she dropped the idea and never again considered a movie career. This was also an early effort in the career of Sean Connery, before his series as James Bond.

An entertaining film, with good acting throughout, and the excellent direction of Hitchcock, with his usual trademark cameo. You should enjoy the picture.

Bruce Dern plays a focal role, as well, as an unnamed sailor, but it is not an unimportant part.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre

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Summary: Unique Little Gem
Review: "MARNIE" is a unique little gem in a class of its own!

Probably under-appreciated at the time due to people expecting another type of Psycho because of the Hitchcock connection to the film, time has proven this movie to be a very psychologically accurate depiction of childhood trauma. Told with a combination of mystery, strong sexual chemistry, romance and great acting, this movie is well worth watching.

An under-rated little classic, it shows some new subtle revelation and style (much like wonderful Tippi Hedren & Sean Connery in the lead roles) each time it's watched!

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Summary: One of Hitch's best.(obligatory title.)
Review: If you really think about it Sean Connery has never really been in any good movies. "Well what about Highlander?" Some obnoxious nerd who needs to get his face bashed in might say.Well nerd what about Marnie?

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Summary: Hitchcock takes on Freud.......
Review: Hitchcock gives us some revelations with his film Marnie - previously he had been more subtle with psychology in his films - in films like Rebecca, Vertigo, and even Psycho underneath the surface there were characters with serious problems - both literally and in their brains. Marnie is the film that brings this to the forefront and it shows Hitchock's own passion for theories in modern psychology - and metaphor in film. In a way it brings to mind other films - directors like Douglas Sirk come to mind (with his deep psychological probing - even sexual - in 'Written on the Wind').
This film is like a text book for mastery in direction. Of all of Hitchcock's films it is perhaps the most intellectually satisfying - and at times we see something almost crazy in Sean Connery's character (as crazed as Scottie in 'Vertigo' - surely this obsession is also taking place in the viewer of the film as well! All in all, this one comes second to Vertigo on my list of favorite Hitchcock films - truly one of his best and most underrated!