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Rebecca  Cover Image DVD DVD

Rebecca / United Artists ; produced by David O. Selznik ; screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Summary:

A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1559409231
  • ISBN: 9781559409230
  • Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Criterion Collection, [2001]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier.
Special features: Commentary by film scholar Leonard J. Leff; isolated music and effects track; screen, hair, makeup and costume tests including Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter, Loreeta Young, Margaret Sullavan and Joan Fontaine; Hitchcock on Rebecca, excerpts from his conversations with François Truffaut; phone interviews with Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson from 1986; behind-the-scenes photo gallery; production correspondence and casting notes; deleted scenes script excerpts; 1939 test screening questionnaire; footage from 1940 Academy Awards ceremony; re-issue trailer; three hours of radio show adaptations.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Photographer, George Barnes ; editor, James Newcom ; music, Franz Waxman.
Participant or Performer Note:
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Florence Bates, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper, Leo G. Carroll, Leonard Carey, Lumsden Hare, Edward Fielding, Philip Winter.
Target Audience Note:
Not rated.
System Details Note:
DVD; Dolby Digital Monoaural.
Language Note:
Closed-captioned.
Awards Note:
Academy Award: Best cinematography, black-and-white; Best picture, 1940.
Subject: Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989 > Film adaptations.
Wives > England > Drama.
Wives > Death > Drama.
England > Drama.
Genre: Feature films.
Suspense films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Evergreen Indiana. (Show)
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Eckhart Public Library.

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