With: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gable, Louise Latham
Plot: A kleptomaniac with a complex about ever being touched by a man (Hedren) is caught stealing from the work safe by her new boss (Connery) who then covers for her and blackmails her into marrying him.
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For a while I was wondering whether this was a thriller or not, but it turned out to be a psychological romance. Hedren is great as a desperate, broken woman and Connery is perfectly cast as the suave, terse, yet caring man who becomes obsessed with her.Marnie seems fully formed as a character rather than a silly woman who's a danger to herself and others, and the films also invites us to judge Connery's character, and question his motives for loving a woman he'll never be able to trust, and acting as a harsh master as much as a husband. Maybe a bit overlong, and the reductive ending seems a bit neat, but it's still totally engrossing.
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