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The Trouble with 'Marnie' (2000)
Directed by Laurent Bouzereau
Overview
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.
Length 58 minutes
Actors
Sean Connery | Alfred Hitchcock | Robert F. Boyle | Jay Presson Allen | Tippi Hedren | Diane Baker | Louise Latham | Hilton A. Green | Joseph Stefano | Evan Hunter | Patricia Hitchcock | Peter Bogdanovich | Steven Smith | Howard Smit | Robin Wood