Marnie

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2 hr. 9 min.

Mystery & Thriller

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81%

43 Reviews

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10,000+ Ratings

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Mark Rutland (Sean Connery) is a customer of one Mr. Strutt, whose business was robbed by his secretary, the mysterious Marnie Edgar (Tippi Hedren). When Marnie applies for a job with Mark, with the intention of stealing from him, Mark -- who is obsessively in love with her -- blackmails her into marrying him. However, he soon discovers that she has severe psychological issues regarding men, thunderstorms and the color red, and resolves to help her come to terms with her past trauma.

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A coolly constructed mystery revolving around a character who's inscrutable to a fault, Marnie finds Hitchcock luring audiences deeper into the dark.

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harwee h

Solid but the last act didn't quite live up to its promise. The execution and the script that explains why Marnie is the way she is felt clumsily tied together. Entertaining overall.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/01/24

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ChrisCSH H

At its core Marnie is Alfred Hitchcocks psychologically darkest film that he made. Sean Connery was great in the film, but the true star is Tippi Hedron, her performance in the film, bringing out the psychological damage in her performance is truly amazing and you can see why Hitchcock he would use her in other films that he made.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/30/23

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James B

It's like someone tried to make a Hitchcockian movie and hired someone to compose a soundtrack in the style of Bernard Herrmann. And tell me again, why did she become a thief?

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

10/23/23

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Matthew B

Marnie achieved a moderate box office success on its release, but was panned by critics. Opinions of the movie have improved since then, but it is still a film that arouses derision and anger as well as applause. While Alfred Hitchcock had been an adaptable director for many decades, smoothly making the transition from silent films to talkies, and from black-and-white to colour, he still had a few ideas of film-making that looked dated, and, some would say, silly at the time when he made Marnie. While contemporary directors were aiming for greater realism, some of Hitchcock's sets and effects looked uncomfortably phoney. We might forgive the unconvincing light effects intended to reproduce an electric storm – perhaps this is Marnie's perception of thunder and lightning. Still what are we to make of a fox-hunting scene that is self-evidently actors on dummy horses moving in front of a rear projection? Most egregious of all is the studio set outside the home of Marnie's mother that never for one minute looks like a real street. The ship in the background will never leave port during the movie for the good reason that it is obviously a painted backdrop. Nonetheless there is much to praise in Hitchcock's style. Consider the brilliant use of colour in the film, especially red and yellow. Observe the text-book perfection involved in the composition of many scenes. Listen to another haunting Bernard Herrmann music score that generates the right atmosphere for the action. Enjoy (perhaps) the intelligent script. Hitchcock's outlook in this film may enrage many viewers today. Does this make it a bad movie, or one that should never have been made? Absolutely not. The artist's duty is not to pander to the sensitivities of audiences, especially audiences whose sensitivity to women's issues have improved over several decades. The artist has only a responsibility to make something that is true to himself. If we find the particular neuroses and preoccupations of the artist to be repellent to our tastes over half a century later, then we have the right to condemn and critique the aspects of the artist that we do not like, but not to deny the artistry involved. As for the artistry, Marnie is certainly flawed. It has technical weaknesses that I outlined, and the story has its problematic elements, something that was seen by the original scriptwriter before the film was even released. Nonetheless it remains a beautiful and challenging late Hitchcock work. I am not sure that any of his later films match it in strength. I wrote a longer appreciation of Marnie on my blog page if you would like to read more: https://themoviescreenscene.wordpress.com/2020/11/28/marnie-1964/

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

08/30/23

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Timothy D

Purposefully directed with electrifying leads, Marnie is a peculiar drama of deceit, care, and trauma. Some psychological tropes are oversimplified in this film, but the behavior surrounding it is intriguing and keeps you on the edge of your seat until the end. Also, Connery and Hedren are delicious to watch.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

08/29/23

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Jelisije J

This movie was quite interesting, but was ruined by one particular scene that put me off for the rest of the film.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/06/23

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Alfred Hitchcock

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Tippi Hedren

Marnie Edgar

Sean Connery

Mark Rutland

Diane Baker

Lil Mainwaring

Martin Gabel

Sidney Strutt

Louise Latham

Bernice Edgar

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TIME Staff

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Hitchcock's elegant cinematic style, evident here and there, seems wasted in a melange of banal dialogue, obtrusively phony process shots, and a plot that congeals more often than it thickens.

Apr 28, 2020

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Richard Brody

New Yorker

Psychologically resonant, visually transcendent ...

Sep 21, 2015

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Martin Chilton

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Hitchcock was criticised for bring shallow psychology into the film (Hedren's character is afraid of the colour red) but some of their exchanges - the film was based on a novel by Winston Graham - are sharp and droll.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 31, 2014

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Penelope Gilliatt

Observer (UK)

There are many evil twinges of perception in the film, both in the dialogue and in the direction, for Hitch at his most coarse is still an alert manipulator, but he has made far better melodramas than this.

Mar 6, 2024

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Barbara Shulgasser

Common Sense Media

The compelling, well-constructed narrative is a showcase of contradictions, not all of them deliberate.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 12, 2023

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Sean Burns

Crooked Marquee

A sinister, unpleasant picture, yet you can’t stop thinking about it. When the movie’s over you want to take a shower, and then talk about it some more.

Feb 14, 2023

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Synopsis

Mark Rutland (Sean Connery) is a customer of one Mr. Strutt, whose business was robbed by his secretary, the mysterious Marnie Edgar (Tippi Hedren). When Marnie applies for a job with Mark, with the intention of stealing from him, Mark -- who is obsessively in love with her -- blackmails her into marrying him. However, he soon discovers that she has severe psychological issues regarding men, thunderstorms and the color red, and resolves to help her come to terms with her past trauma.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter: Winston Graham, Jay Presson Allen
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Universal Pictures
Rating: PG
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 22, 1964, Original
Release Date (Streaming): May 8, 2015
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: 35mm, Flat (1.85:1)

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