Marnie (1964)

	Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock	COUNTRY USA GENRE Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE Marnie RUNNING TIME 130 minutes
	Produced by: Alfred Hitchcock
	Written by: Jay Presson Allen

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Marnie Edgar	Tippi Hedren
Mark Rutland	Sean Connery
Sidney Strutt	Martin Gabel
Bernice Edgar	Louise Latham	½
Lil Mainwaring	Diane Baker
Mr. Rutland	Alan Napier
Cousin Bob	Bob Sweeney
Susan Clabon	Mariette Hartley
The Sailor	Bruce Dern

Review

* This review may contain spoilers. *

If a beautiful woman isn't willing to have sex with Sean Connery, she must have a traumatic past. That is essentially Alfred Hitchcock's claim with the rich, but slightly flawed psychological thriller Marnie. And who's to say he wasn't right? God knows Connery has had his fair share of women. Seeing Marnie in retrospect, the boldness in tackling its subject matters counts for more than the period-characteristic fallacies detract from it. For instance, the picture is heavily coloured by the position of Freudian ideas during the mid 20th century; Marnie's entire behaviour is explained with the Austrian neurologist's teachings. But even if these teachings come off a little slanted today, there's nothing simplified or banal about Hitchcock's handling of these touchy subject matters. Almost no other filmmakers went into these dark waters at the time, and as he proved with Vertigo and Psycho (among others), Hitchcock had a real knack for conveying the forces at work in the human psyche. Connery and Hedren, who plays the title character with conviction, work great off each other. And Hitch also displays his astute stylistic sense here, with Marnie following in the footsteps of the aforementioned Vertigo stylistically.