{"id":5424,"date":"2009-10-26T02:11:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T10:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2009-10-26T02:11:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T10:11:33","slug":"marnie-alfred-hitchcock-1964-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=5424","title":{"rendered":"Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=59\">William Conlin<\/a>. Viewed on DVD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/a\/ac\/Marnie1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"325\" \/>  I recently decided it was time for an Alfred Hitchcock marathon. After looking at my collection of famous \u201cHitch\u201d film I decided to start with a lesser known, but still overwhelmingly entertaining thriller from the storied director\u2019s later years. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058329\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>Marnie<\/em><\/a>, based on a novel by Winston Graham, is a psychological thriller about a young woman (Tippi Hedren) whose sinister past leads her to become a man-hating kleptomaniac. When she is caught by a rich businessman (Sean Connery), he quickly sets his sights on solving the mysteries of her childhood while trying to get her to fall in love with him.<\/p>\n<p>Though <em>Marnie<\/em> has no iconic line or moment like so many of Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s masterpieces, it is still a truly great thriller. I\u2019ve seen it before but there are still moments where I feel a sweat break out and I just want to yell at the screen. Tippi Hedren\u2019s performance as Marnie rivals her other major Hitchcock role in <em>The Birds<\/em>. Her character is weak while strong and tormented while happy.<\/p>\n<p>Connery, fresh of his first few \u201cBond\u201d films, delivers a quirky, insult-filled performance as the man who puts Marnie in his sights. Though the dialogue is well written and delve deeply into fields rarely discussed in 1964, it seems to me that there were just a few too many one-liners in the film. For those reasons I both praise and knock Jay Allen, who has also written such classic screenplays as <em>Cabaret<\/em> and <em>Deathtrap<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, <em>Marnie<\/em> is a suspenseful tour de force from Tippi Hedren and as always a brilliantly directed film from the master himself. Though there\u2019s no rampages or mass slayings if you want an enjoyable thriller for this Halloween, give <em>Marnie<\/em> a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by William Conlin. Viewed on DVD. I recently decided it was time for an Alfred Hitchcock marathon. After looking at my collection of famous \u201cHitch\u201d film I decided to start with a lesser known, but still overwhelmingly entertaining thriller from the storied director\u2019s later years. Marnie, based on a novel by Winston Graham, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}