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Marnie

Marnie

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It draws me in everytime!
Review: I've seen this film so many times, and I still get drawn in everytime I see that it is on TV! Of course, being a BIG Sean Connery fan (down to naming my son after him) has a lot to do with that, but I love the dark, mysterious tone of this film. My favorite scene is the split screen when Marnie is stealing money from Mark's company, and the deaf cleaning lady is cleaning in the same room. What a great technique! One of Hitchcock's best!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Exelent Film
Review: Tippie Hendren plays a young lady named Marnie.Marnie steals from her employies,she has one problem red Marnie can't stand the color red.she visits her mother to find her babysiting a little girl Marnie is so jealous of that little girl.Her boss finds out that Marnie steals and forses her to mary him,when they go go on a cruise shiip (for there honey moon)her boss is so mad at Marnie tht he tars her clths off! Marnie is so mad she is speachles and that night when her boss is sleaping she jumps out of the window hoping to kill herself.Her boss wakes up and finds her in then swimming pool,she is alive.They go back and and Marnie goes crazy at her bos's house,finaly she tells him why she is so afraid of the color red.She goes to her mothers house and practicly relivs the nightmare,when she was three her mother hd woken her up from the bed and put her on the couch,so her mother and her dad get some sleep Marnie startes crying and her father starts touching her face she hates him and she starts screaming her mother comes and Marnie's dad and father get into a physical fit, Marnie's dad tackels Marnie's mom her mom gets the fire pocker and hits him on his head,he is bleading so much,but then he crabes the pocker away from her and tosses it across the room,"help" Marnies mom screams, Marnie grabs the poker and wacks him he bleeds crazly and Marnie and her mom see the blood gushing everywhere,thats why Marnie is so afraied of red, Marnie nad her boss walks out of the house and the movie ends. This movie dazzels in your eyes I love it and so will you,you have to see it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: HITCH AT HIS BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Tippi Hedren plays a compulsive thief who steals from her employers. When she steals from her new employer, Sean Connery, he finds out and forces her to marry him. She reluctantly marries him. He takes her on a honeymoon on a ship to the tropics. After raping her and her trying to commit suicide he brings her home. Her sexual fragility and phobia of colors and storms baffles him. When she trys to steal from him again. He takes her to her mother to explain her childhood and why she has fear against colors, storms and...men. The answer is found and the climax is excellent. With Hitch's camera work, Bernard Herrmann's beautiful score, and Winston Graham's wonderful story comes an awesome, instant classic movie. Hitchcock's best by far.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: one of hitch's greatest
Review: Tippi Hedren stars as the beautiful Marnie Edgar who is a compulsive thief. She has visions of her childhood and the climax is great. Tippi Hedren gives an oscar-caliber performance. Excellent movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A good and suspenseful movie
Review: Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren are a great couple. I think that Tippi Hedren is gorgeous,and Sean Connery has a great acting talent beyond BELIEF. His movies are so wholesome, refreshing, and adventureous.Both have extreme talents.This is a great movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hitchcock's last great film
Review: This was a critical fiasco when it came out in the early Sixties, and Hedren was widely blamed for the film's failure. Most film critics now see it as one of Hitchcock's greatest masterpieces from his late mature period, however--on a par with VERTIGO, PSYCHO, and THE BIRDS.

This is not a film for those new to Hitchcock or his themes: the lack of a typical mystery or suspense plot may seem surprising for those expecting Hitchcock's more obvious bag of tricks. But as an in-depth character study of a truly unhappy woman and the (just as pathological) man who loves her, this one is every bit as riveting and fascinating and anything Hitchcock ever did--and when Marnie enters the Rutland mansion in her riding habit wielding a pistol after the foxhunting sequence you'll be at the edge of your seat to see what she'll do.

The linchpin of the film is Hedren, who gives what must be the most underrated performance in Hitchcock's oeuvre--and clearly one of the very finest. Her refusal to warm up--either to Connery's character or to audiences--has made it a difficult performance for many to grasp, but those who dismiss it are greatly mistaken. Her joy when Connery brings her beloved horse to the mansion, her faltering childlike tones during the film's denouement, and her lightning-fast changes of mood during the great word-association secene show how truly talented and stunning this actress really is. You have only to see her incredible facial expression during the hunting scene when the hounds are ripping up the fox to shreds (and Marnie's aristocratic friends are laughing at the spectacle) to appreciate what a complex talent Hedren is, and how thoroughly Hollywood wasted its opportunities to use her well.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Hedren is fine. What's the deal?
Review: Tippi Hedren is very good in Marnie, as is Sean Connery (but he's great in everything). Marnie is a little long/slow moving, but it is a fascinating "head trip."

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Connery is great, Hedren is gorgeous!
Review: This film was not greeted well when it first came out. Now, it's considered a minor Hitchcock classic ("Vertigo" is undoubtedly his best film from that era). No, Hedren is no Katherine Hepburn, but she does quite well in the starring role, thank you.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Tippi Hedren is a lousy actress
Review: I totally agree with everyone who says that this film is excellent, because it is. However it has been a bad decision to propose this role for Tippi Hedren, because the melancholic, complexed, traumatised and psychologically defected woman she was due to act, just didn't suit her capacities. But after her wonderful acting in Hitchcock's The Birds, one year earlier (1963), all this is long ago forgiven...

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: One of my favorite Hitchcock films!
Review: I do still think this movie is underrated. This is one of Connery's best early roles. I am a major Connery, Hitchcock (and James Bond genre) fan. The first time I saw the movie, I found it somewhat disturbing and cliched. But you find something new each time you see it. Connery brings a lot of depth to a somewhat implausible character at an early stage in his career (and looks gorgeous at the same time!)


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