The Trouble with Marnie (TV 2000)

This hour long documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" incorporates the usual melange of contemporary interviews with surviving participants and liberal helpings of film ... See full summary »

Director:

Laurent Bouzereau

Writer:

Laurent Bouzereau

Stars:

Tippi Hedren, Diane Baker, Louise Latham

Cast

Credited cast:
Tippi Hedren	...	Herself
Diane Baker	...	Herself
Louise Latham	...	Herself
Alfred Hitchcock	...	Himself (archive footage)
Sean Connery	...	Himself (archive footage)
Evan Hunter	...	Himself
Jay Presson Allen	...	Herself
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peter Bogdanovich	...	Himself - Filmaker
Robert F. Boyle	...	Himself
Hilton A. Green	...	Himself
Bernard Herrmann	...	Himself (archive footage)
Patricia Hitchcock	...	Herself (as Pat Hitchcock O'Connell)
Howard Smit	...	Himself
Steven Smith	...	Himself
Joseph Stefano	...	Himself

Storyline

This hour long documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" incorporates the usual melange of contemporary interviews with surviving participants and liberal helpings of film clips and production shots. It also presents a nice selection of script pages and memos as well. In the former category we find cast members 'Tippi' Hedren, Diane Baker, and Louise Latham, rejected screenwriters Joseph Stefano and Evan Hunter, final screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, production designer Robert Boyle, makeup artist Howard Smit, unit manager Hilton Green, Hitchcock historian Robin Wood, composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith, and Hitchcock fan/filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. An entertaining account of the film's production, the participants offer loads of valuable information and anecdotes. Highly enjoyable for Hitchcock fans and the film's growing number of admirers.

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Plot Keywords:

interview | character name in title

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 May 2000 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This making-of documentary is featured on the Collector's Edition DVD for Marnie, released in 2000.

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Connections

Features Marnie (1964)

User Reviews

Two things, otherwise great

This is the feature-length documentary on the DVD of Marnie, and note that it spoils the film. It consists of interviews, clips of the film and stills/covers from this and other of Alfred's movies. There is clear(and deserved; always nice when that is the case) love-fest in this, but it also goes into things that were meant to have been different, and might have even improved the final product, in spite of it already being excellent. It was originally meant to have a male co-worker(he became Lil) with whom Mark would compete for Marnie's affections, and a therapist. They go into the rape scene, and how the first writer was fired for trying to cut it. In general, this is very interesting, and they cover most of what we'd wanna know. It is lacking any involvement from Connery(I understand that he is a private man), and this doesn't go into the well-known falling out between Hedren and Hitchcock. Tippi could have told us her version; that would really have added to this. Still, a very informative 58 and a half minutes. There is disturbing content and blood in this. I recommend this to every fan of the picture itself. 8/10