Some truly creepy Hitchcock moments in Marnie

Inspired by the HBO movie The Girl, we watched Hitchcock's 1964 movie, Marnie, with Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery - suprisingly the movie stands up very well over time. By today's standards, yes, it's about 30 minutes too long, far too much talking exposition, too much emphasis on the plot (as if every scene in the book, which was the source, must be dramatized), the score seems incredibly old-fashioned and orchestrated and annoying, it's painfully obvious that so much was filmed on studio lots, and the Fx, notably the scenes in which Hedren is supposed to be horseback riding and in which she and Connery are driving, as technically primitive - and yet - the movie is compelling and keeps you thinking all the way through until the last sequence reveals the trauma that has led Marnie to become a thief and a hater of men, that has led to her weird phobias of lightning and the color red. Along the way, the movie has some really excellent scenes and sequences, from the famous opening shots of Marnie on a deserted train platform carrying an unusual satchel (filled with cash, we soon learn), the after-hours scene in which she robs the company vault while a cleaning lady just out of her line of sight mops the floor; the odd scenes at the race track when Marnie freaks out about one of the jockey's colors (red and white) and they're confronted by a man (a detective?) who seems to recognize Marnie/Hedren; and everything on the honeymoon voyage to the South Seas when Marnie/Hedren refuses to allow Connery to touch her. Hitchcock more than any other director knew how to frame a scene - he obviously didn't care a bit about his actors or their craft, the characters are props and he is obtuse to their inflections (Hedren, like most of his heroines, is breathy and monotonous, and Connery, weirdly, slips into Scottish dialect at various key moments); H. also was enamored of pop psychology - everything can be resolved once the childhood trauma is played out in the present (would it were so simple), and the conclusion here will inevitably remind one of Spellbound, Vertigo, et al. But, still, a very entertaining movie with some of the true Hitchcock creepy touches (the mother with her distorted face and strange Southern drawl, the kids playing a rhyming game on the rain-soaked street), worth watching once at least.