Marnie (1964)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Jay Presson Allen, Winston Graham

Cinematographer: Robert Burks

Composer: Bernard Herrmann

Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Louise Latham, Martin Gabe, Bruce Dern

Hitchcock’s troubling film – in which a serial thief (Hedren, excellent) is blackmailed into marriage by one of her victims, despite her evident psycho-sexual problems – is one of his bleakest, most ambitious efforts but, perhaps due to Connery’s rather lightweight turn, it never quite reaches the heights of his best work. Iain.Stott