Goofs for
Marnie (1964) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: While Rutland and Marnie are at the safe, the stacks of cash change height and orientation from one shot to the next.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Marnie is riding the horse toward the wall, at one point the projected background is stuck and motionless while the horse is galloping.
  
  
• Continuity: Through the porthole on the ship, the water is moving one direction, but in the next shot it is moving the opposite direction.
  
  

• Continuity: When Marnie lets red ink to drop in her blouse sleeve, the spot appears elongated in the first shot. In the second shot it appears smaller and rounded.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mark and Marnie are at the Rutland's safe, the gun changes size and color between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Marnie is about to steal from the Rutland safe a second time, during the three quick shots of the safe, in the last shot the dial is in a different position.
  
  
• Continuity: When Marnie and Mark are first seen driving to the Rutland estate in his 1964 Lincoln Continental, the gear shift lever on the steering wheel remains in the park position.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mark is driving with Marnie after confronting her, the exterior shot shows the Continental in the right lane of the highway, but in the interior shot that immediately follows, the rear projection shows them in the left lane.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mark and Marnie arrive at Marnie's mother's house, Mark's shirt is soaking wet, but after Marnie has remembered her childhood the shirt is completely dry.
  
  
• Continuity: Obvious stunt double (different hair) when Marnie rides her horse after the hunting trip.
  
  
• Continuity: When Marnie and Mr. Rutland are at the Atlantic City Race Courts, there are two drinks on the table. Then Mr. Rutland leaves his seat to place a bet. When he comes back, the drinks are still there, but in the next shot, immediately afterward, when they stand up and leave, the drinks have disappeared.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the storm scene, Mark leads Marnie to sit on the sofa. For a moment, you can see Mark's lips moving but you can't hear what he is saying.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the beginning of the movie when Marnie visits her mom, she tells her mom that her boss, Mr. Pemperton, gave her another raise. At the end of the movie, when Marnie and Mark go to the mom's house to confront her with the past, the mom says to Mark, "You're not Mr. Pendleton."
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Mark and Marnie return home from their honeymoon, they go upstairs to their bedroom where Marnie slams the door on the Mark as he's speaking... but his lips aren't moving.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The shadow of the boom mic falls on the wall of Marnie's mother's kitchen while she makes Jessie's pie.
  
  
• Continuity: During the car ride after Mark catches Marnie, Marnie's eyebrows change thickness. When she's in the car, they're thinner than they are during their talk in the diner.
  
  
• Plot holes: Marnie always goes into these flashbacks whenever she sees the color red - red flowers, a drop of red blood, the red jacket of the fox hunter - yet the fact the entire house (and the stairs most noticeably) is carpeted in bright red seems to have no affect on her.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Marnie asks for the gun to shoot her horse, the woman of the house says she'll get her husband's pistol. She returns, however, with a revolver.
  
  

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