Best scene (spoilers)
Watch for the scene when Juanita de Cordoba is shot. Pure Hitchcock.
shareAgreed. Even before I got around to watching the Maltin docu where he also praised it, I knew that was the best shot in the whole film. I think it's a good film even though a bit long and not sporting big name movie stars, much better than Tippi's bad performance in Marnie, a film Grace Kelly might have saved.
shareIn my opinion, Tippi Hedren's performance in Marnie is one of the best to grace a Hitchcock film. She is phenomenal in the last scene. Extremely underrated actress. And yes I believe it is the best shot in the film. Instead of death been portrayed as gory with blood everywere, this death is elegant, beautiful and very sad.
"We played with life and lost." - Jules et Jim (1962)
Now I haven't seen this movie in a while, but I do remember a male and female couple that were tortured and thrown in a jail cell. We see the woman holding the husband similarly in a pose like the Pieta marble sculpture (the Virgin Mary holding Jesus, dead in her arms, after he was crucified). The camera zooms to the woman's obviously severly beaten face, and she whispers very faintly "DeCordova" to the guard, revealing, I believe, who they were working for (DeCordova was the Cuban mistress).
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