Review of Marnie (1964) by Daniel K — 27 Jun 2013

This movie was right in the midst of his early, and best, Bond films, and I was impressed how well Connery did here. When you consider the quality of Leading men (and women) that Hitchcock often has, it is interesting that he picked a young "action film" star for this thriller.

But it immediately obvious why--his character is strong, forceful, chauvanist and self-confident, all things that Sean Connery can play very well. But the details of the performance--his facial expressions (under those huge eyebrows), for example--are what impressed me.

The movie itself is an interesting, if unconventional, thriller, and while not one of Hitch's best it is certainly still very good. Tippi Hedren plays "frigid" very well and the only let down for me was the rather dated psychological diagnosis by amatuer shrink Sean.

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