Marnie

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

1964 / 130min / 4K DCP

When her dashing employer, Mark (Sean Connery), catches kleptomaniac “Marnie” Edgar (Tippi Hedren) with a pile of his company’s money, he offers the beautiful thief the choice of marriage or jail—then to discover that his blushing bride is repelled by any form of physical intimacy. Described by Hitch as his “sex thriller,” Marnie is a work of exhilarating visual flourish and bracing bitterness.

“There is a store in Los Angeles called Cookbook that sells artisanal chili oils, nine-dollar bundles of marjoram, and ‘savory pet nats.’ and everyone who works there is extremely beautiful. When trying to explain Maddie to the designers, I would call her a ‘Cookbook blond’ instead of a ‘Hitchcock blond,’ because one of my personal prompts for Maddie’s Secret was, ‘What if a girl from this LA food scene was the subject of a lurid, hypnotic psychosexual puzzle like Marnie?’ Maddie’s Secret also answers the question, ‘What if Kristen Johnston played my mother?’ Get up, Marnie, you’re achin’ my leg.” —John Early

Distributor: Universal

Part of Thrust It! The Films That Inspired Maddie's Secret