Overview:
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.Status: | Released (1940-03-23) |
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Awards: | Won 2 Oscars. 7 wins & 10 nominations total |
Screen: | Daphne Du Maurier, Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison |
Productions: | Selznick International Pictures |
Production Countries: | United States of America |
Spoken Languages: | English, Français |
Casts
- 3359: Laurence Olivier - Maxim de Winter
- 3360: Joan Fontaine - Mrs. de Winter
- 3361: George Sanders - Jack Favell
- 3362: Judith Anderson - Mrs. Danvers
- 3363: Nigel Bruce - Major Giles Lacy
- 3364: Reginald Denny - Frank Crawley
- 2438: C. Aubrey Smith - Colonel Julyan
Crews
- 2636: Alfred Hitchcock - Director - Directing
- 3353: Daphne du Maurier - Novel - Writing
- 3248: David O. Selznick - Producer - Production
- 8619: Franz Waxman - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 3355: W. Donn Hayes - Editor - Editing
- 3356: George Barnes - Director of Photography - Camera
- 3357: Jack Cosgrove - Special Effects - Crew
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Reviews
Andres Gomez
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A good movie and interesting plot but the characters are a little bit exaggerated and the outcome is quite expectable.
Continue reading ->CharlesTheBold
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A poor "lady's companion", so self-effacing that we are never given her name (Joan Fontaine), suddenly finds her life changed when a moody widower, Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier), proposes to marry her and take her to his splendid estate of Manderley. It seems like a fairy-ta ....
Continue reading ->waltzma
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Absolutely perfect Gothic Thriller that has many imitators but few of equal quality. With "Rebecca" about to hit the Broadway stage (as a musical!), I thought it was time to write my review of perhaps my favorite Hitchcock film. I recall the first time I saw this on TV almost 30 y ....
Continue reading ->John Chard
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Do you think the dead come back and watch the living? Rebecca is directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted to screen play from the Daphne du Maurier novel of the same name. It stars Laurence Olvier, Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson. Cinematography is by George Barnes and music sc ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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We saw this quite recently on the big screen at Somerset House in London. One of those outdoor screenings - and the fact that it poured with rain on hundreds of us didn't matter one jot (though the hampers got quite sodden). Olivier and the eerily stupendous Judith Anderson provide t ....
Continue reading ->Filipe Manuel Neto
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**One of the greatest films of Hitchcock's career.** Alfred Hitchcock was truly a master, and there are not many directors who can present a CV so vast, so rich and so deserving of acclaim. Ironically, he did not win a single Oscar for his work as a director and even this film, wh ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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We saw this quite recently on the big screen at Somerset House in London. One of those outdoor screenings - and the fact that it poured with rain on hundreds of us didn't matter one jot (though the hampers got quite sodden). Olivier and the eerily stupendous Judith Anderson provide t ....
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