| Marnie (1964),
				Director: Alfred Hitchcock, rated PG 
				ALFRED 
				HITCHCOCK'S Suspenseful Sex Mystery! 
				
		  Starring: 
				Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise 
Latham, Alan Napier, Bob Sweeney, Milton Selzer, Bruce Dern 
				DML Rating: 
				★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 
				- good 
				"You don't love me. 
				I'm just something you've caught! You think I'm some sort of 
				animal you've trapped!" - Marnie Edgar 
				Why watch this?
				This is an engaging film about manipulation and sexual trauma. 
				Plot Summary: 
				Marnie Edgar is a kleptomaniac obsessed with stealing large cash 
				sums from her employer's safes. She vanishes with the cash, lies 
				low, then repeats the deed at a new location in a new city. We 
				learn that her relationship with her mother is cold and distant, 
				she also has an extreme aversion to thunder and the color red, 
				causing her to become hysterical. She happens upon a wealthy 
				widower, Mark, who catches onto what she's up to. Instead of 
				turning her over to the police, he's intrigued by her and takes 
				drastic, even disturbing, steps to help the troubled woman. Dad's Preview: 
				By 1964 Hitchcock 
				knew exactly the film he wanted to make based on the Graham 
				Winston novel of the same name - a sexually-charged thriller. Connery is 
				excellent as the tall, handsome, dark love interest, but it's Tippi Hedren's movie. She is captivating as a woman who knows 
				what she is, yet cannot stop it. In fact she has shut herself 
				off from all affection, despising men's touch. There are a 
				couple of disturbing scenes, but this film is well-made, and 
				I consider it Hitchcock's most underrated works.       
				 
				 Geoffrey Stanley 
				Productions; Universal Studios
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