What's the best part of "Marnie"?

I don't rate it highly among Hitchcocks. It's third-tier stuff for him, and both lead performances are poor in different ways (Tippi overextended; Connery pinched and wooden), but I like bits and pieces of it. The opening is a brilliant attention-grabber, the camera following the woman with the yellow purse. The psychology of the scene with the mother and the little girl is interesting. Diane Baker has fun (and good hair) in all her scenes as the jealous sister-in-law, and it's a shame she vanishes with so much movie left (another victim of a Hitchcock supporting-character malady I call Midge's disease).

But the high point of the film is the nearly silent robbery of the office safe, with the shoe dangling from her pocket.

Sean Connery's hairy chest.

There’s a best part of Marnie?

Boo Hiss DL. While considered a misfire at the time of its release, Marnie is rightfully hailed as a masterpiece by contemporary film critics and scholars.

The ending. The credits.

I think Louise Latham's performance as Marnie's mother is masterful.

R1, I enjoy that tense office sequence, too. I like the score so much that I can hum a couple of the motifs from memory and the weird story line about the colour red also appeals to me.

I first saw this movie as a teenager, but after viewing it again as an adult, I became better aware of Hitchcock's sometimes perverted and obsessive point of view being played out - the frigid blonde woman, the need to master her and "break" her like she's a wild animal that he now owns because he bought and blackmailed her, and obviously culminating with the rape, which Hitchcock may have found to be part of a justifiable progression and even personally satisfying.

The cartoonish artificiality that Hitchcock always seems to infuse his films with strikes me as repulsive at times and intriguing at others, depending on the scene.

Anyway, it's a weird movie that I found both fascinating and repugnant, and that's my two cents.