The Trouble with 'Marnie' ( 2000 )

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.

Top Cast

Joseph Stefano

Self

Patricia Hitchcock

Self (as Pat Hitchcock O'Connell)

Evan Hunter

Self

Jay Presson Allen

Self

Tippi Hedren

Self

Hilton A. Green

Self

Louise Latham

Self

Diane Baker

Self

Peter Bogdanovich

Self

Robert F. Boyle

Self

Howard Smit

Self

Steven C. Smith

Self

Robin Wood

Self

Alfred Hitchcock

Self (archive footage)

Sean Connery

Self (archive footage)