Marnie (1964) | |
Director(s) | Alfred Hitchcock |
Producer(s) | Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited) |
Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Mystery, Romance, Thriller/Suspense |
Top Topics | Book-Based, Psychological Thrillers, Secretaries |
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Marnie Overview:
Marnie (1964) was a Mystery - Romance Film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Alfred Hitchcock.
SYNOPSIS
Hitchcock discovery Hedren (The Birds, 1963) plays a repressed kleptomaniac with a hidden past and Connery the insurance investigator whose obsessions with her dark secrets are nearly as troubled. Hitchcock returns to the theme of sexual obsession seven years after Vertigo. This is a psychologically intriguing film that remains in the mind. Featuring a young Dern in an important small role, and one of Herrmann's finest scores.
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BlogHub Articles:
Book Review: Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie
By Devon Powell on Jul 9, 2014 From Hitchcock MasterPublisher: University of Illinois Press Release Date: October 1, 2011 Nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best Critical/Biographical, 2012. Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick?s Scripting Hitchcock explores the collaborative process between... Read full article
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Quotes from
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 Edgar: Oh... it's you. Where's my Mother?
Jessica 'Jessie' Cotton: She's making a Pecan pie... for me.
Marnie Edgar: That figures!
[first lines]
Sidney Strutt: Robbed! Cleaned out! $9,967! Precisely as I told you over the telephone. And that girl did it. Marion Holland. That's the girl. Marion Holland.
First Detective: Can you describe her Mr. Strutt?
Sidney Strutt: Certainly I can describe her: five-five, 110 pounds, size 8 dress, blue eyes, black wavy hair, even features, good teeth.
Sidney Strutt: [detectives unable to restrain laughter] Well what's so damn funny? There's been a grand larceny committed on these premises.
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Facts about
Rutland has a phone conversation with a private investigator named Boyle; the film's production designer was Robert F. Boyle.
Screenwriter Jay Presson Allen wrote in Mark's hobby of studying animal behavior because that was her hobby and tangentially fit with Mark's later inclination to psychoanalyze Marnie.
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