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  • Actors: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham
  • Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writers: Jay Presson Allen, Winston Graham
  • Producers: Alfred Hitchcock
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Universal Pictures UK
  • DVD Release Date: 17 Oct 2005
  • Run Time: 126 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005N8BA
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,894 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Both visually and psychologically, Marnie is crass in comparison with Hitchcock's peak achievement in Vertigo--although it shares some of that film's characteristic obsessive themes. Sean Connery, fresh from From Russia with Love, is a Philadelphia playboy who begins to fall for Tippi Hedren's blonde ice goddess only when he realises 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 programme 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 DH Lawrence believed as fervently as Hitchcock in the curative properties of sexual release. --David Chute

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars An impotant movie that deserves a better transfer, 11 Nov 2001
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Perhaps the last of the great Hitchcock movies, Marnie is a flawed masterpiece. Tippi Hedren plays Marnie with the intelligence of an accomplished criminal and the vulnerability of frightened young girl. Sean Connery is also convincing in the unlikely role of the rich and very eligible Mark Rutland who is obsessed with saving Marnie from her fractured life. The script by Jay Presson Allen provides some brilliant highpoints in a plot that traces common Hitchcock themes of childhood trauma and an overbearing mother. Hitchcock's direction, however, varies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Brilliant compositions and set pieces, such as the robbery scene, Rutland's office and the final climax, are held together by some truly awful studio fabrications. This was to be the last time Hitchcock would work with many of his oldest allies, including his director of photography Robert Burks, his editor George Tomasini and composer Bernard Herman. As such, it really does represent the end of an era.

It's a great shame that such an important film has been so poorly transferred onto this region 2 disc. An aspect ratio of 1.33:1 might be great for those wanting to fill their TV screens, but it seriously detracts from many compositions. The picture quality is also very grainy and often noticeably blurred. I've heard that the region 1 version is better, so that might be a worthwhile consideration for those with region free machines. Otherwise, I would wait until the studio finally gives this film the treatment it deserves.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Impressive Psychological Thriller, 4 May 2006
By L. Davidson (Belfast, N.Ireland) - See all my reviews
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"Marnie" is one of Hitchcock's darker films that features themes like kleptomania, compulsive lying, female frigidity , dark family secrets and childhood trauma. Phew ! As you can tell , it is not a barrel of laughs, but it is well acted and the plot is developed well. "Marnie" is part romance, part mystery and part thriller and deals with the relationship between a rich, eccentric ,slightly maverick businessman (Sean Connery) and the beautiful, but psychologically disturbed Marnie (Tippi Hedren). Connery tries unsuccessfully to get behind Marnie's icy protective shell,only penetrating it and uncovering the mystery behind her traumatised condition in a dramatic denouement at the home of one of her relatives. "Marnie" makes for uncomfortable viewing at times and is ,perhaps, the last really good film that Hitchcock made.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars intriguing and with many effective dark touches, 3 Mar 2007
By Mr. Ian A. Macfarlane "almac1975" (Fife, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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When it first appeared, 'Marnie' was not universally well reviewed. As with a few of Hitchcock's later films, the unsuccessful 'Frenzy', for example, it dealt with some uncomfortable subjects, and the treatment of the heroine, Marnie, was seen by some judges to be troubling, a view supported by rumours that Hitchcock had taken an unhealthy and unwelcome interest in Tippi Hedren, the actress who plays her. Certainly Marnie is treated at one point in a way which would now be seen as unacceptable (and probably was then) by the frustrated hero (Sean Connery). Whatever the rights and wrongs of that, this remains an interesting film which tells an involving story and has many tense scenes which bear Hitchcock's hallmark. Marnie's compulsion to steal, the significance of the colour red and the reason for it, the very effective ending down by the docks, are all well handled. It is perhaps a film which yields more on a second or third viewing ; I have certainly continued to enjoy it over the years. Hedren (who led also in 'The Birds', one of Hitchcock's late masterpieces and a better film than this) is good, as are all the cast ; this is a good film and can be recommended.
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2.0 out of 5 stars WARNING: Pan-and-scan version of widescreen film
For resons best known to themselves, Universal UK have issued most of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960s/1970s films (The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy) in pan-and-scan 1. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Kenneth F. Mcara

4.0 out of 5 stars There cannot be such mechanical determinism in a human being
This film is extremely powerful because it centers on a woman who obviously has a problem, not an accident but a problem. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jacques COULARDEAU

2.0 out of 5 stars I've tracked you and caught you and by God I'm going to keep you
One of the more unusual entries into the Hitchcock cannon, which admittedly covers a lot of ground, Marnie is ultimately an unconvincing and, at times, dull movie which, simply,... Read more
Published 10 months ago by IWFIcon

5.0 out of 5 stars Great suspense!

'Marnie' is one of Hitchcock's best thrillers. A complex character and a complex plot, and a scenario and story that would be more commonly expressed today, but not so... Read more
Published 11 months ago by FAMOUS NAME

3.0 out of 5 stars Misogynistic Pop-Psychology at its Most Entertaining
'Marnie' is perhaps most significant for its very averageness, amidst the gems that Hitchcock produced around the same time. Read more
Published 13 months ago by M. Witcombe

2.0 out of 5 stars A SLIGHT HITCH
Hitchcock has always been called the master of suspense, mainly, in my opinion, because he specialised in the genre. Certainly this film is no masterpiece. Read more
Published 18 months ago by C. Kingswell

4.0 out of 5 stars A Facinating Hitchcock film
Tippi Hedrin plays Marnie, a compulsive thief who cannot stand to be touched by any man. She also goes bonkers over the sight of the color red. Read more
Published 21 months ago by M. A. Ramos

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Hitchcock.
Another outstanding film from the Master starring Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren. We follow a beautiful woman (Hedren) who applies for jobs, works her way into her employer's... Read more
Published on 16 April 2006 by David Welsh

5.0 out of 5 stars More romance than suspence
I came across this film by chance, one evening as I was switching channel & I must say I thorougly enjoyed it. I like this film for the romantic aspect & not the suspence. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2005 by N. T. Diep

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a chilling masterpeice and thigh slapping emotion!
This is Hitches last film of the old age, i mean up until about 1970 his films were some sort of gothic, dusty feel about them, but that is a suculent and wonderful quality of... Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2004 by Master Michael C. Boyd

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