The Trouble with 'Marnie'
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.
Top Billed Cast
Patricia Hitchcock
Self (as Pat Hitchcock O'Connell)
Evan Hunter
Self
Jay Presson Allen
Self
Tippi Hedren
Self
Louise Latham
Self
Diane Baker
Self
Peter Bogdanovich
Self
Steven C. Smith
Self
Alfred Hitchcock
Self (archive footage)
Sean Connery
Self (archive footage)
