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Marnie
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by Universal Studios
Sales Rank: 34547
Price: $14.98
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You could call this one <i>Hoot Along with Hitch.</i> With the possible exceptions of <i>Topaz</i> and <i>Family Plot</i>, this is Hitchcock's cheesiest movie, visually and psychologically crass in comparison with a peak achievement like <i>Vertigo</i>--although it shares some of that film's characteristic obsessive themes. Sean Connery, fresh from the second Bond picture, <i>From Russia with Love</i>, is a Philadelphia playboy who begins to fall for Tippi Hedren's blonde ice goddess only when he realizes 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 program 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 D.H. Lawrence believed as fervently as Hitchcock in the curative properties of sexual release. <i>--David Chute</i>
Viewer Reviews
A very good character study of a frigid, kleptomaniac with a love triangle thrown in to boot. Tippi Hedren is much better in this one than in "The Birds".
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