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Part of the summer series Alfred Hitchcock Presents!

Romance becomes psychodrama in the elegantly crafted Rebecca, Alfred Hitchcock’s first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, the film stars the enchanting Joan Fontaine as a young woman who believes she has found her heart’s desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter (played with cunning vulnerability by Laurence Olivier). But upon moving to Manderley—her groom’s baroque ancestral mansion—she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the estate but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well. The start of Hitchcock’s legendary collaboration with producer David O. Selznick, this elegiac gothic vision, captured in stunning black and white by George Barnes, took home the Academy Awards for best picture and best cinematography.

Magnificent romantic-gothic corn, full of Alfred Hitchcock’s humor and inventiveness.

Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

Fog, shipwreck, an insane man wandering the beach, water-soaked corpses, inquests, forbidden chambers and finally a destroying fire in a big English country house — all these flesh-curling delights are to be found in Rebecca.

The St-Louis Dispatch
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Series
Genre
RomanceSuspense
Runtime 130 minutes
Rated PG
Directed By Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and George Sanders
Language English
Country
USA

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