Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Tippi Hedren
- Marnie Edgar Rutland
- (as 'Tippi' Hedren)
Leon Alton
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
John Alvin
- Hotel Chauffeur
- (uncredited)
Kimberly Beck
- Jessica 'Jessie' Cotton
- (uncredited)
Lillian Bronson
- Mrs. Maitland
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaSir Alfred Hitchcock, following his usual practice, bid for the movie rights to Winston Graham's novel anonymously, so as to keep the price down. However, in this instance, the scheme backfired; the anonymity of the purchaser made Graham suspicious, although he regarded the amount of money on offer as extremely generous. He instructed his agent to ask for twice as much. Hitchcock agreed, on condition that the deal be closed immediately. When Graham discovered who it was who had bought the rights, he said he would have given them away free for the honor of having one of his stories filmed by Alfred Hitchcock.
- GoofsWhenever Marnie sees the color red, she reacts with hysteria. However, when she comes back to the Rutland house from the hunt and comes down the stairs after going up to get the safe keys, the shot shows that the carpet on the staircase is red. Yet she is able to go up and down those stairs the entire time she is in that house without any reaction.
- Quotes
Marnie Edgar: You don't love me. I'm just something you've caught! You think I'm some sort of animal you've trapped!
Mark Rutland: That's right - you are. And I've caught something really wild this time, haven't I? I've tracked you and caught you and by God I'm going to keep you.
- Alternate versionsDialogue in the final scene reveals that Marnie's mother had given up her virginity at 15 to Marnie's father in exchange for a sweater. Just before the film's release the studio had second thoughts about this part, and Alfred Hitchcock agreed to cut the lines. But hundreds of prints had already been made, and rather than incur the cost of reprinting the final reel of each, the studio released them as they were, so there were two versions of the film from the outset.
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)
Featured review
When Marnie was first released it was (quite unfairly) dismissed by critics. It has since been come to be known as one of Hitchcock's great films though. Tippi Hedren stars as Marnie. She is a liar and a thief. She has stolen large amounts of money from her employers on various occasions. Things start to change as she begins to work for the dashing Mark Rutland though. He becomes romantically interested in her but not wanting to get close to anybody she decides to steal the money and escape as quickly as she can. However, Mark catches her red handed and he gives her the choice of marrying him or being held accountable for her crimes. She chooses to marry him but he comes to find out that she can't stand to be touched by any man. He realizes that she has a deep seated problem from her past and that he must now help her to confront this. Marnie is a wonderful film and it is very underrated. A lot of people have watched it and it has gone over their heads therefore leading to the underrated status. It is much the same with Tippi Hedren's performance. Even though it is brilliant alot of people cannot see how wonderful it really is. Sean Connery is also very good.
It is really too bad that some people can't see Marnie for the masterpiece that it is. It's really quite pointless to call Marnie a "flawed" film as well. If Marnie is truly watched intelligently you will see that this is not the case. Marnie deserves far more credit than it gets. If you watch it I hope that you enjoy it as much as I have.
5 stars / 5 stars
It is really too bad that some people can't see Marnie for the masterpiece that it is. It's really quite pointless to call Marnie a "flawed" film as well. If Marnie is truly watched intelligently you will see that this is not the case. Marnie deserves far more credit than it gets. If you watch it I hope that you enjoy it as much as I have.
5 stars / 5 stars
- movie_lover_gurl
- Jul 4, 2000
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- Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie
- Filming locations
- San Jose, California, USA(film's first scene)
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- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $8,211
- Runtime2 hours 10 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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