Director : Alfred Hitchcok
Release Dates : 22 July 1964 (USA)
With : Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren
Genre : Mystery, Romance, Thriller
SYNOPSIS : Marnie Edgar (Hedren) is a troubled young woman who has an unnatural fear and mistrust of men, thunderstorms, and the color red. She is also a compulsive thief. She uses her charms on Sidney Strutt (Martin Gabel) to get a job without references. Then late one night, she steals the contents of the company safe and disappears.
Mark Rutland (Connery), a widower who owns a large printing company, is a good customer of Strutt's. He learns about the theft from the victim, and remembers the woman. So when Marnie applies for a job at his company, he is intrigued. He is robbed too, but unlike Strutt, Mark manages to track Marnie down. Instead of handing her over to the police, he blackmails her into marrying him.
On their honeymoon, he finds out about her frigidity. At first, he respects her wishes, but her undisguised hostility to him incites him to rape her. The next morning, she tries to commit suicide, but Mark finds her in time.
He attempts to discover the reasons behind Marnie's behavior. In the end, Marnie and Mark learn that her mother, Bernice (Louise Latham), had been a prostitute. When Marnie was six years old, one of her mother's clients (a sailor played by Bruce Dern) had tried to calm her after she became frightened by a storm. Bernice thought he was trying to molest her daughter and began attacking him. Seeing her mother struggling with the man, Marnie struck him with a fireplace poker, killing him. The bloodshed led to her fear of the color red. Once the origin of her fears is revealed, Marnie decides she wants to try to make her marriage work.
OPINION : What I like ? sophisticated scenario with the great idea to focus on another color (instead of red). So, this "bad" color is emphasized, actors play so well - especially Tippi Hedren (who wasn't supposed to be an actress), the atmosphear is perfect and... SEAN CONNERY. Personnally, I was so young when I discovered this movie, I was nively amazed.
Best scenes : Mark Ruthland playing "psychologist" with Marnie.
When Marnie is remembering what happened when she was younger and so why she is so afraid of red color and men.
What I dislike ? What if I was afraid of Yellow ? ;))
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