Amazon.com video review:
You could call this one Hoot Along with Hitch. With the
possible exceptions of
Topaz and
Family Plot, this
is Hitchcock's cheesiest movie, visually and psychologically crass in
comparison with a peak achievement like Vertigo--although
it shares some of that film's characteristic obsessive themes. Sean
Connery, fresh from the second Bond picture,
From Russia with
Love, is a Philadelphia playboy who begins to fall for Tippi
Hedren's blonde ice goddess only when he realizes that she's a
professional thief; she's come to work in his upper-crust insurance
office in order to embezzle mass quantities. His patient program of
investigation and surveillance has a creepy, voyeuristic quality
that's pure Hitchcock, but all's lost when it emerges that the root of
Marnie's problem is phobic sexual frigidity, induced by a childhood
trauma. Luckily, Sean is up to the challenge. As it were. Not even
D.H. Lawrence believed as fervently as Hitchcock in the curative
properties of sexual release. --David Chute
