Marnie | 
| Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Louise Latham, Martin Gabel
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 10738
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Original Recording Remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD28308D
UPC: 025192830822
EAN: 0025192830822
ASIN: B000CCW2U2
Theatrical Release Date: July 22, 1964
Release Date: February 7, 2006
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You could call this one Hoot Along with Hitch. With the possible exceptions of Topaz and Family Plot, this is Hitchcock's cheesiest movie, visually and psychologically crass in comparison with a peak achievement like Vertigo--although it shares some of that film's characteristic obsessive themes. Sean Connery, fresh from the second Bond picture, From Russia with Love, is a Philadelphia playboy who begins to fall for Tippi Hedren's blonde ice goddess only when he realizes 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 program 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 D.H. Lawrence believed as fervently as Hitchcock in the curative properties of sexual release. --David Chute
Product Description
Mark marries marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems and tries to help her confront and resolve them. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/07/2006 Starring: Diane Baker Sean Connery Rating: Pg
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 Another great Hitchcock movie. November 28, 2008
Scott W. Beckerley (San Francisco, CA, USA)
A very good character study of a frigid, kleptomaniac with a love triangle thrown in to boot. Tippi Hedren is much better in this one than in "The Birds".
Marnie has issues. November 18, 2008
ADRIENNE MILLER (TENNESSEE)
Marnie starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery is a deeply disturbing drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Hedren is completely captivating in the title-role, she is so much more effective in this film than The Birds. I won't give away the ending but expect a creepy and complexed climax. This movie isn't considered a Hitchcock classic but it's definitely worth a viewing, enjoy!
Marnie is Marvelous!! November 2, 2008
jake
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good classic Hitchcock film that never loses it's appeal. Why can't all movies have the class that these older films possess? You know there is a romantic quality in the story line without having to endure sexual scenes that are unnecessary. Plan on getting more of these types of films for the family!!
"The idea was to kill myself, not feed the damn fish" September 24, 2008
C Wahlman (Merrillville, IN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Oh, Marnie, such a wonderful film. Tippi Hedren is wonderful and dynamic as the lead in this film, with a very capable and convincing support crew of Diane Baker and Sean Connery--all this with Alfred Hitchcock directing.
I have always enjoyed this film of lying, thieving, psychological childhood trauma, frigidity, and suspense. In fact, I cannot understand why some people dislike this film. Furthermore, I do not understand why this is not considered one of his greatest films (although there are so many greats it is easy to see how some films get lost in the shuffle).
The story is about a troubled woman, who we meet right after an inside heist job. From there, we meet her disgruntled mother and learn that their relationship might have a lot to do with Marnie's antisocial and criminal behavior. The story really takes off when she is hired for another job and meets the handsome and wealthy Mark Rutland. He notices her instantly and begins to take considerable interest in her. This and his expertise in female animal abnormal behavior makes for an interesting continuation.
I highly recommend this film, although I could see how the psychoanalysis driven ending could turn some folks off.
 Solid September 14, 2008
Cosmoetica (New York, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After his back to back commercial and critical triumphs of Psycho and The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock decided to go `interior.' By that, I mean he decided to get unfortunately Freudian in his approach to crime, as he had throughout his career. Unfortunately, all but a few of his films suffer from their reliance on the outmoded and simplistic approaches to psychology that he employed. One of them was Marnie, his 1964 color follow up to the two terrific films mentioned at the start, starring his The Birds female lead, Tippi Hedren.
While the film flopped at the box office, latter day critics have tried to overcompensate for this fact by declaring the film a masterpiece. It's not, but it is a good, solid film that is better than originally thought. Its first hour is a nearly flawless study of a female thief, Marnie Edgar (Hedren)- aka Margaret Edgar, Peggy Nicholson, and Mary Taylor, who is sort of what the Janet Leigh character in Psycho may have become had she not been killed so early in that film. Her development is evenly paced and believable, never forced nor rushed. Then, when Marnie is caught by her boss, a widower named Mark Rutland (Sean Connery), and blackmailed into marriage, the film goes downhill, as Marnie's freakouts over the color red, highlighted by Hitchcock's over the top usage of red fade-ins and interludes (compare them with Ingmar Bergman's similar later technique in Cries And Whispers), lead to even greater and sillier melodrama.... All in all, Marnie is a flawed, but worthwhile, entry in the Hitchcock canon, and better than some more highly regarded earlier films. That said, it's a transition film which led the way to Hitchcock's final film of merit, 1972's Frenzy, and embodies all the best of Hitchcock, as well as his worst. In that sense, one could argue it is the Master Of Suspense's most Hitchcockian film, even if it is not too heavy on the suspense. In a more real world sense, it is a film that could have been great, yet also shows why Hitchcock was a flawed artist; thus a film that should be studied by students of the craft; a not too bad way to fail, after all.
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