Marnie

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

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Stars: Tippi Hedren, Martin Gabel, Sean Connery, Louise Latham

Production: MCA Universal Home Video

1 nomination.


IMDB:: 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:: 82%

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: PG
Year:: 1964
: 130
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Would his touch end Marnie's unnatural fears or start them again?

Thief... Liar... Cheat... she was all of these and he knew it!

Only Alfred Hitchcock could have created so suspenseful a sex mystery!

From Alfred Hitchcock with sex and suspense.

On Marnie's wedding night he discovered every secret about her . . . except one!

Alfred Hitchcock's love stories start where others fail to go!

The more he loved her . . . The more she hated him . . . For trying to unravel her secret!

Marnie Edgar:
You don't love me. I'm just something you've caught. Some kind of wild animal you've trapped!

Mark Rutland:
Atlantic City opens for races at the end of the month. We could drive out there next Saturday...

Marnie Edgar:
Alright. Are you fond of horses?

Mark Rutland:
No, not at all.

Mark Rutland:
Well why didn't you jump over the side?

Marnie Edgar:
The idea was to kill myself - not feed the damn fish.

Lil Mainwaring:
How do you take your tea, Miss Taylor?

Marnie Edgar:
Usually with a cup of hot water and a tea bag.

Mark Rutland:
Before I was drafted into Rutland's Miss Taylor, I had notions of being a zoologist. I still try to keep up with my field.

Marnie Edgar:
Zoos?

Mark Rutland:
Instinctual behavior.

Marnie Edgar:
A lady's instinct too?

Mark Rutland:
But I do want to go to bed, Marnie. I very much want to go to bed.

Marnie Edgar:
Are you still in the mood for killing?

Marnie Edgar:
I don't believe in luck.

Mark Rutland:
What do you believe in?

Marnie Edgar:
Nothing.

Mark Rutland:
You're very sexy with your face clean.

Marnie Edgar:
Why don't you love me, Mama?

Marnie Edgar:
Can't you understand? Isn't it plain enough? I cannot bear to be handled.

Mark Rutland:
By anybody? Or just me?

Marnie Edgar:
You... Men!

Mark Rutland:
Really? You didn't seem to mind at my office that day, or at the stables. And all this last week i've handled you.

"Marnie you aching my leg"

Marnie Edgar:
You don't love me. I'm just something you've caught! You think I'm some sort of animal you've trapped!

Mark Rutland:
That's right - you are. And I've caught something really wild this time, haven't I? I've tracked you and caught you and by God I'm going to keep you.

Bernice Edgar:
Oh, Marnie. You shouldn't spend all your money on me like you do.

Marnie Edgar:
But that's what money's for: to spend. Like the Bible says, "Money answereth all things."

Mark Rutland:
I'm fighting a powerful impulse to beat the hell out of you.

Mark Rutland:
When we get home, I'll explain that we had a lover's quarrel... That you ran away... That I went after you and brought you back. That'll please Dad. He admires action. Then I'll explain that we' re gonna be married before the week is out... That I can't bear to have you out of my sight. He also admires wholesome animal lust.

Mr. Rutland:
The best thing for the inside of a man or a woman is the outside of a horse.

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thomasl.98721
I love this movie. In order to enjoy this movie you must buy into the mental condition Marnie suffers from. The plot is improbable, but many movies have improbable plots especially Hitchcock.
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