Tippi Hedren

Sean Connery

Diane Baker

Martin Gabel

Louise Latham

Bob Sweeney

Milton Selzer

Mariette Hartley

Alan Napier

Bruce Dern

Henry Beckman

S. John Launer

Edith Evanson

Meg Wyllie

Leon Alton

John Alvin

Kimberly Beck

Lillian Bronson

George Bruggeman

Linden Chiles

Rupert Crosse

Harold Gould

John Hart

Alfred Hitchcock

Kenner G. Kemp

Caryl Lincoln

Louise Lorimer

Milton Parsons

Carmen Phillips

Murray Pollack

Paul Power

Greg Rhinelander

Mark Russell

Melody Thomas Scott

Bert Stevens

Hal Taggart

Tim Taylor

Luree Wiese

Emmaline Henry

Bryan O'Byrne

Pearl Shear

Charles Thompson

Jay Presson Allen

Bernard Herrmann

Robert Burks

George Tomasini

Robert F. Boyle

George Milo

Vincent Dee

Howard Smit

Edith Head

James H. Brown

Winston Graham

Jack Barron

Virginia Darcy

Robert Dawn

Hilton A. Green

William Russell

Waldon O. Watson

Leonard J. South

Lois Thurman

Patricia Casey

William Witney

Harold Michelson

May Boss

William N. Clark

Bobby Greene

Paul Jacobsen

Robert Willoughby

Joan Joseff

James Linn

Rita Riggs

Tanner Buschman

Thriller

Mystery

Romance

Crime

Marnie

Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

Universal Pictures

United States of America

The idea was to kill myself, not feed the damn fish.

Sometimes cited as the last decent Hitchcock film, Marnie actually should be regarded as one of the maestro's best films full stop! A swirling mysterious tale of repressed sexuality and traumatic falsehoods, Marnie to me is one of Hitch's more accomplished works.

Tippi Hedren is Marnie, a woman who is both a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar, but her problems are more deep rooted than the surface ones we see. Sean Connery is Mark Rutland, he catches Marnie out for robbing the safe at his company and we then follow the two on a journey to get to the bottom of the demons that are gnawing away at Marnie - to the point that flashes of red and the touch of Mark send her into terrified panic.

With bleak back drops and fluctuating climate conditions, Hitchcock pulls the audience into Marnie's troubled psyche, and with Hedren's perfectly tense and wrought performance fittingly snug, the film delivers the goods for a fine Hitchcock viewing. As usual some scenes are priceless Hitch, a nightmare sequence with a tapping hand at the window hits the mark, while a scene involving a horse thumps the emotive heart and steers the film towards the special finale. 

Top stuff all round from the master director. 9/10