Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

good back-story, and good acting

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I have to point out that since the age of 12 (when my passion for old and great movies began) I always loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies. They are so thrilling and so perfectly made that you can't leave the movie until it ends! And ''Marnie'' is one of the first Hitchcock movies I saw, and liked it.Marnie (Tippi Hedren) is a charming woman that has the habit of stealing for forget. She gets employed as a secretary at Rutland's, and she soon catches the attention of the owner, Mark (Sean Connery in one of his best non-007 movies). She eventually marries him, but the honeymoon is a disaster, and they soon return home. Eventually Connery tries to understand Marnie's temper, and it helps her to face her childhood traumas and it works. Sean Connery was perfect as the suave Mark, and Tippi Hedren in another great performance along with THE BIRDS. However, although not a masterpiece, it's still great and worth a look!

Attractive accountant Marnie (Tippie Hedrin) moves from post to post, gaining enough of the confidence of her employers to rob them of the cash in the office safes. She assumes new identities with fake social security cards and hair dye. The heart of the film is an exploration into why she does this. "Marnie" is a bit of a masterpiece in style and the way it uncovers why she steals from her employers. Set in a set made out to be Baltimore, the film may look fake, which could be intentional just for the purposes of distinctive styling, because at this point in Alfred Hitchcock's career (1964) it would be safe to assume that what you see on the screen must have been what he intended, and, nevertheless, the photography by Robert Burks is some of the best, as is Bernard Hermann's score. This basically turns out to be the master's sleeper classic, mixing a story of sex and criminality, not too unlike what Hitchcock did with Psycho. Attractive women rob their employers in both films, and both masterfully explore the lingering and smouldering sexual hang-ups.

Good, but atypical, Alfred Hitchcock drama. Starts off looking like your usual Hitchcock thriller - tight, though complex, plot, with criminal undertones. After a while it evolves into a psychological and emotional drama, and a great one at that. Hitchcock shows his sensitive side in the closing act.Plot is a bit too complex in the beginning, and then drifts a bit in the middle. Other than that, perfect. Hitchcock's direction is spot- on, as usual.Tippi Hendren is superb, and gorgeous, in the lead role. Sean Connery is solid as the male lead.Another Hitchcock classic.

Wealthy businessman Mark Rutland (Sean Connery) falls for beautiful, frigid compulsive liar and habitual thief Marnie (Tippi Hedren), and convinces her that marrying him is a better option than going to jail. After a few days of not being able to get into her pants, Mark practically forces himself upon the woman, which drives her to attempt suicide. Not one to give up, he endeavours to get to the bottom of the childhood trauma that has made his new wife such a screw-up.Even the greatest of directors can have the occasional mis-step; Marnie is one of Alfred Hitchcock's 'stumbles', the director putting his foot wrong on more than one occasion during the telling of this rather unremarkable psychological mystery.Technically, the film is undeniably sub-standard in places, with some awful rear-projection and painted backdrops that serve to pull the viewer out of the story. Performance wise, Tippi Hedren isn't quite up to the task, her role as the disturbed titular character requiring more subtlety than the actress can muster. In terms of basic storytelling, Hitchcock's film is both painfully slow and extremely talkative, and when all is said and done (with more being said than done), the pay-off simply isn't worth all of the tedious Freudian psycho-babble and overwrought drama.The only scene that even comes close to prime Hitchcock is when Marnie breaks into Rutland's safe: as she tiptoes barefoot out of the building, past the cleaner and guard, the shoes in her pockets gradually begin to fall out, providing some nail-biting tension. It's a shame there wasn't a lot more like this to liven up proceedings throughout.