Rebecca [Special Edition]

DVD/APPROX. 130 MINS./1940/US NR

Main feature:

Release Nov 20, 2001
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio English: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1940

Special features:

  • Commentary by Film Scholar Leonard J. Leff, author of Hitchcock and Selznick
  • Isolated Music and Effects Track
  • Rare Screen, Hair Makeup and Costume Tests Including Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter, Loretta Young, Margaret Sullavan and Joan Fontaine
  • Hitchcock on Rebecca, excerpts from his conversations with Francois Truffaut
  • Phone Interviews with Stars Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson from 1986
  • Hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos chronicling the film's production from location scouting, set photos and wardrobe continuity to ads, posters, and promotional memorabilia
  • Production Correspondence and Casting Notes
  • Deleted Scene Script Excerpts
  • 1939 Test Screening Questionnaire
  • Essay on Rebecca Author Daphne du Maurier
  • Footage from the 1940 Academy Awards™ Ceremony
  • Re-Issue Trailer
  • Three Hours of Complete Radio Show Adaptations: 1938 Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre Broadcast, 1941 Lux Radio Theatre Broadcast starring Ronald Colman and Ida Lupino, Including an Interview with David O. Selznick
  • 1950 Lux Radio Theatre Broadcast Starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
  • 22-Page Booklet Including Liner Notes by Robin Wood

Synopsis:

  
"Last Night, I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again."

Rebecca's haunting opening line conjures the entirety of Hitchcock's romantic, suspenseful, elegant film. A young woman (Joan Fontaine) believes her every dream has come true when her whirlwind romance with the dashing Maxim de Winter (Sire Laurence Olivier) culminates in marriage. But she soon realizes that Rebecca, the late first Mrs. de Winter, haunts both the temperamental, brooding Maxim and the de Winter mansion, Manderley. In order for Maxim and the new Mrs. de Winter to have a future, Rebecca's spell must be broken and the mystery of her violent dead unraveled. The first collaboration between producer David O. Selznick and Hitchcock, Rebecca was adapted from Daphne du Maurier's popular novel and won the 1940 Academy Award®™ for Best Picture and Cinematography (Black and White).
  

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Judith AndersonFlorence BatesNigel BruceGladys CooperReginald DennyJoan FontaineLaurence OlivierGeorge SandersC. Aubrey Smith"Rebecca"
Written byJoan HarrisonWritten byRobert E. Sherwoodproduced byDavid O. Selznick
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Production Year: 1940

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