Title: Agree with original reaction
Product review: Marnie was considered a flop when released in 1964, though apparently its regard has increased greatly over the years. I have now seen it for the first time.Perhaps my own evaluation will change over the years as well, but for now I'm back in 1964. The story is dull as dust, Hitchcock's fake backdrops and screens, usually beautiful and surrealistic as in Vertigo, Rear Window, etc, look phony and laughable. And Tippi Hedren--- while she may have been born to play the campy Melanie Daniels in The Birds, is just plain awful here. The sentimentality is very uncharacteristic of Hitchcock and not at all appealing, the character of the Mother is really dreadful. The impression overall is of a Vertigo wannabe - even the magnificent Bernard Hermann score sounds completely derivative from that Movie.
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