Marnie was celebrated only in retrospect. On its release it was one of the most critically lambasted of all Hitchcock films and audiences hated every minute of it. In those days, I was literally one of its only supporters.
I also loved Torn Curtain when it came out and saw it probably fifteen or twenty times during its initial run. I still like a lot of it (the German actors are great), but think it would be considered a classic had they not thrown out the Herrmann score, which makes the film a whole different ballgame - one need only watch the DVD extras, where they have the Herrmann score married to the visuals, at least as far as he got in the session before being fired. The Addison score, fine as it is, makes the film too lightweight and, at times, downright silly and melodramatic. The Herrmann score makes it serious, austere, and tense.
