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Rebecca (Criterion Collection)

Rebecca (Criterion Collection)

Selznick International Pictures (1940)
Blu-ray
715515203319
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Suspense | Thriller
USA | English | Black & White | 02:10

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.


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Laurence Olivier 'Maxim' de Winter
Joan Fontaine Mrs. de Winter
George Sanders Jack Favell
Judith Anderson Mrs. Danvers
Nigel Bruce Major Giles Lacy
Reginald Denny Frank Crawley
C. Aubrey Smith Colonel Julyan
Gladys Cooper Beatrice Lacy
Florence Bates Mrs. Van Hopper
Melville Cooper Coroner
Leo G. Carroll Dr. Baker
Leonard Carey Ben
Lumsden Hare Tabbs
Edward Fielding Frith
Philip Winter Robert
Forrester Harvey Chalcroft
Bunny Beatty Maid
Billy Bevan Policeman
Egon Brecher Hotel Desk Clerk
Gino Corrado Hotel Manager
Bonnie Gaye Cowen Little Girl
Dolores 'Dodo' Dewey Little Girl
Ruddy Hartz Little Boy
Bonnie Henjum Little Girl
Alfred Hitchcock Man Outside Phone Booth

Trailer

Edition details

Edition Criterion Collection
Nr Discs 2
Edition Release Date Sep 05, 2017
Regions Region A

Personal

Watched
Quantity 1
Index 2311
Added Date Dec 30, 2019 00:25:51
Modified Date Jun 12, 2022 00:35:05

Notes

Christmas 2019 gift from Mom and Dad


SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration
Audio commentary from 1990 featuring film scholar Leonard J. Leff
Isolated music and effects track
New conversation between film critic and author Molly Haskell and scholar Patricia White
New interview with film historian Craig Barron on Rebecca’s visual effects
Daphne du Maurier: In the Footsteps of “Rebecca,” a 2016 French television documentary
Making-of documentary from 2007
Footage of screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests for actors Joan Fontaine, Anne Baxter, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Sullavan, and Loretta Young
Casting gallery with notes by director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick
Hitchcock interviewed by Tom Snyder on a 1973 episode of NBC’s Tomorrow
Tomorrow interview with Fontaine from 1980
Audio interviews from 1986 with actor Judith Anderson and Fontaine
Three radio versions of Rebecca, from 1938, 1941, and 1950, including Orson Welles’s adaptation of the novel for the Mercury Theatre
Theatrical rerelease trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic and Selznick biographer David Thomson and selected Selznick production correspondence, including with Hitchcock

Cover painting by Robert Hunt

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