Marnie
Pursued
Vintage Print
Neither Marnie Edgar (Hedren) nor Jeb Rand (Mitchum) can escape the childhood trauma and violence that pursue them in these psychological thrillers in which horses, the color red, and a man in spurs are loaded with ominous meaning. In one of Hitchcock's late-period masterpieces, Marnie's kleptomania, frigidity, and incessant identity-swapping collide with Mark Rutland (Connery), whose amateur interest in zoology and psychology inspire him to tame Marnie's impulses and unlock her secret past. Like Hitchcock, Walsh uses flashbacks to illuminate the past haunting Mitchum's anti-hero, who is persecuted in a series of tragedies, caught in a web of murder and revenge he doesn't understand. Intensifying Pursued's Western film noir atmosphere are Teresa Wright's shape-shifting turn as adoptive sister/love interest/would-be executioner and James Wong Howe's stunning chiaroscuro photography.
PROGRAM
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Marnie
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
With Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker.
US, 1964, 35mm, color, 130 min.
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Pursued
Directed by Raoul Walsh.
With Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson.
US, 1947, 35mm, black & white, 101 min.
Print source: UCLA
Part of film series
Screenings from this program
The Single Standard / Carnival in Flanders
Dumbo / He Who Gets Slapped
The Marriage Circle / The Merry Widow
The Cat and the Canary / And Then There Were None
