Marnie [Blu-ray]

Have watched over and over

Brilliant acting with brilliant writing. This is one of my favorite Hitchcock films.A masterpiece.

I was a little boy when this film first came out. I saw it with my Mom and sister and a friend at the drive-in. I didn't understand it all. Sean Connery is so sexy and powerful in this film. He was just a breath away from becoming a superstar in James Bond films. Tippi Hedren is excellent. She gave a remarkable performance. Louise Latham who plays Marnie's mother was outstanding. (she was a young woman who played older).This film is a psychological thriller. Sean Connery is bent on understanding what happened to Marnie to cause her to become a thief, liar, and frigid. Originally, Grace Kelly agreed to do this film. She was then Princess of Monaco and decided to come back. Then she changed her mind. Hitchcock gave Tippi a big chance but began trying to control her, run her life, and sexually harassed her. She did not give in to his sexual advances and he ruined her career. He had her under contract. She received marvelous film offers and Hitchcock turned them all down and would not release her. She should have sued.

This is what they mean by a 'classic!' Good standard audio/picture.

Psychological thriller starring Tippi Hedrin as a compulsive liar and thief, rescued by her latest employer who falls in love with her (Sean Connery). He studies zoology, particulary predators of the animal kingdom. He has a picture of a jaguarundi in his office at the book publishing firm he owns. He tells Marian (one of Tippi's aliases in the film) that he trained the animal. "What did you train her to do?" she asks. "To trust me." "That's all? Marion exclaims. "Well, that's a lot, for a jaguarundi." It is just as difficult to get Marian to trust HIM, but in the end he does, tracing her behavioral problems to an incident of childhood trauma. The script is extraordinary, especially dialogue between Hedrin and Connery. Diane Baker, Louise Latham and Alan Napier are outstanding in supporting roles. The eerie, dramatic score is perfectly suited to the unfolding narrative. The film editing and erratic, oft celebrated camera angles are beyond extraordinary. Where Hitchcock is concerned, it is more like "Psycho" than "Rear Window" or "The Man Who Knew Too Much," but is really not quite like anything else he ever directed. His startling use of color and flashbacks also make this film a standout. It's not his greatest picture, but it is great nonetheless.

Excellent film, great performances by the actors. Special effects for the day were cutting edge for Hitchcock film. Actual real landmarks to the area were added to the driving scenes. I know because I grew up in the general vicinity.

Alright, I just love this quirky film. It's all about Alfred Hitchcock's vision of a glamorous thief, designed with Grace Kelly in mind, but intriguingly played by 'Tippi" Hedren. Several Hitchcock biographers and film critics have tried to leapfrog over the film's curiosities and problems, including the scenes suffused with red and the disturbing "rape" scene. The screenwriter and others pleaded with director Hitch to leave the scene out, as it was incongruous with Marnie's character development, but his lifelong, unfortunate sexual obsessions had begun to surface by then and he would not be dissuaded. Hedren's acting, as well as Sean Connery's and all other supporting players, seems masterful to me. Louise Latham handles the old/young aspects of her role especially well, with a self-righteous rejection of her daughter that turns ugly, then unexpectedly tender as revelations about their past surface. Toward the end of filming, Hitchcock lost interest due to well-documented inappropriate personal demands he made of his star. It is said that to cover the deficiencies in his directing of this curiously old-fashioned and poignant film, he told his longtime composer Bernard Hermann to make the movie's music very loud and very dramatic. Hermann's score, his last completed work for Hitchcock, is over the top, yes, but in an unforgettable, beautiful way.I've watched "Marnie" many times over the years, first on television, then DVD. My suspicion is that "romantics" love it, even while they recognize its flaws, while the "realists" who always saw the logical gaps in Hitch's work, disdain it. It's a great film and tells a sad, compelling story in high style, perfectly wrought tension, and great feeling.

The brand new 4k release of Hitchcock's classic is pristine! The Blu-Ray from a few years ago was a mess. More snow than Mt Everest. No such thing with this new release. In my opinion, it is a beauty of a transfer. The opening shot of Tippi Hedren's yellow purse is stunning! You will not be disappointed as Marnie receives the restoration it deserves. No more new supplements but the documentary on the making of the film is still excellent with interviews with Tippi Hedren, Diane Baker and Louise Latham. The film will probably always be controversial. It is either the last of the great Hitchcock films or the beginning of his slide. It is interesting to read all of the reviews and the diverse opinions. Especially the performance of Tippi Hedren. It ranges from brilliant to the woman can't act. Personally, I think she did a good job but feel a few scenes show her lack of experience. She did become a much better actress as time went on. Check out Replacing Dad and on You Tube, Tea With Grandma for which she won a Best Actress award from the New York International Independent Film Festival and another for Mulligan's at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival. Both are short films. As far as Marnie, not my very favorite Hitchcock film, but in my top 10.

Please note I have NOT bought Marnie on blu ray on the strength of many reviewers who confirm this Universal restoration is appalling. When Universal re-releases a full and detailed restoration, as Hitchcock deserves, I will buy it. Simple as that. Give the job to Network (UFO, The Professionals, etc) - they'd do a fantastic job!The film, however, is one of Hitch's best (which I own on DVD): An in-depth analysis of a psychologically and emotionally disturbed woman (played with alarming reality by Hedren) who is barely able to keep the lid on the tin of her apparent seething hatred of men for reason/s that are lingeringly kept from us - well-judged by the Director. The dream-like feel to certain scenes (eg Tippi's horseriding sequence) and the sense of freedom this gives her from her frigidity and introversions still sticks in the mind from last playing the film (in 2009). I also gain a sense of smouldering yet repressed sexual desire in some scenes. To convey such feelings so deeply and precisely in a film is nothing short of genius. I can associate these scenes with the times I have fancied a girl but, alas, hardly ever having mustered the courage to approach her for fear of rejection (a fear based on experience), and wishing I could throw off the heavy shackles of shyness, which is probably why this film is so personal to me, so meaningful.A detailed restoration of this classic masterpiece would merit an immediate 5 stars - and another purchase.

I've bought a bunch of Hitchcock recently I'd never seen before & this was one of the best . An excellent thriller , intelligently written with good dialogue & complex characters. Tippi Hedren & Sean Connery were fabulous , especially Connery who was still James Bond at the time . An interesting take where the protagonist was a victim as much as a naughty villainess. It's beautifully restored to watch on dvd , too. Standout scenes for me - the dual shot where Marnie steals from the office, with the cleaner in the background ; Marnie thrown headfirst off her horse when his hind legs are trapped on a wall ( the build up to it is pure suspense & reminded me of what happened to Bonnie in Gone with the Wind ) & the revelation at the end when it's revealed how & why she was traumatised .An underrated classic .

I bought this movie for my mum because she started watching it on TV (bbc2)one or two days before new years day 2016. She explained to that she really liked it and got into it but only managed to watch the first 20 minutes or so because my dad wanted sleep and she was frightened of ghosts or something that she couldn't go downstairs to watch it, what a numpty. So I bought it as an extra gift. Me and my family watched it on new years eve like a bunch of sad cases...lol. Now about the movie, I found this movie okay with a storyline that's got a typical twist to it i.e. you actually find out that the main character has unresolved issues but but you find out right at the end of the movie. Well for me and my family it kept us entertained and focused although it did drag on a bit, more than what was necessary but it was still OK. What I didn't like was because of the age of the movie there was some obvious fake background scenery used. e.g the ship/docking yard was a painted background picture. The car scene where Sean Connery is driving with Tippi Hedren its so obvious its fake because of out what you seen in the car windows but I suppose you have to consider the age of the film. It was however very nice to see Sean Connery in a different role when he was younger.

Marnie is typically Hitchcockian, in that is full of suspense and female angst, yet is is also a film that would stand up to a psychoanalytic assessment, since the acting out and unconsciously driven behaviours are embedded in trauma from the past, involving the female lead and her mother. Since mother's shame prevents her from releasing her (now grown up daughter) from the repetition-compulsive element of her daughter's behaviour, her daughter is in thrall to her mother. Her trauma has locked her into a need to make attempts at reparation to her mother, for the loss of active use of one of her legs, by attempting to provide for her in a financial way, which is far beyond her capacity. As such, she engages in deception and theft at companies she works for, in an unconsciously driven way. This is confirmed, most markedly when, having married a rich man, she remains in thrall to the compulsion to stealOf course, since this is Hitchcock, there is a handsome man there to release her from her trauma. In this case, it is the hugely attractive (at the time) Sean Connery. He and Tippi Hedren make a credible pair. Indeed, all characters are locked into a kind of obsessiveness. How interesting that now we know that the biggest obsessive was Hitchcock himself.Yet Hitchcock was a great film maker. The film grips throughout and confirms to me as strongly as ever, that Freud was a genius.

Marnie is well worth watching. A psychological thriller adapted from a novel which explored deep-rooted and long-standing motivations behind a protagonist's criminal activity. The root causes in traumatic childhood events also explains, as we finally discover, the protagonist's reactions to certain visual stimuli.