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Hitchcock in Colour

MARNIE

• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• USA / 1964 / DCP / Colour / 130’ / English; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Jay Presson Allen
• Original Work: Winston Graham
• Director of Photography: Robert Burks
• Editing: George Tomasini
• Music: Bernard Herrmann
• Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel, Diane Baker, Louise Latham, Alan Napier
• Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
• Production Co.: Geoffrey Stanley Productions
• World Sales: Park Circus

When Grace Kelly, who now had become the Princess of Monaco, turned down the offer, Tippi Hedren stars in her second Hitchcock film, alongside Sean Connery, who, at the time, was celebrating his stardom thanks to Bond films. Just as in Vertigo, there is a man here who is obsessed with a woman: Mark Rutland, played by Connery, blackmails Marnie to have a relationship with him, as he first suspects and then is certain that she is a thief. Setting the tone of the film more assertively than in Birds, Hedren is remarkable as Marnie who is marked with the colour red as a trigger of her past traumas. Described by Hitchcock briefly as the tale of the prince and the beggar girl, Marnie is adapted from Winston Graham’s novel.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.