![]() ![]() In fact, after the 1950s, Hitchcock only returned to London as his primary setting with his grisly penultimate film, Frenzy (released in 1972). ![]() Thus, the setting was altered to Philadelphia (by way of Pittsburgh), instead of Marnie’s original primary location of London (by way of Manchester). After all, it was practically as though Graham had handed him the opportunity to “keep it local.” But by this time in Hitchcock’s career, he had turned decidedly “Hollywood,” favoring his productions to take place in the U.S. Willing, as most books are to, go deeper and darker than the movie adaptation, Hitchcock and his screenwriter, Jay Presson Allen, made some rather surprising changes to the film version.įor starters, it seemed particularly unlikely that Hitchcock, of all people, would opt to amend the setting from England to the U.S. In this case, Winston Graham’s 1961 novel of the same name. But, like most Hitchcock fare, this story was not spawned, precisely, from his own mind, but that of an author’s. Marnie might be one of the most problematic Alfred Hitchcock movies of all-time, which is really saying something as there are so many affronting cinematic masterpieces in his canon. ![]()
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