Rebecca / a Selznick International Picture ; produced by David O. Selznick ; screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison ; adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Publisher number: CC2800DDVD | The Criterion CollectionSeries: Criterion collection ; 135.Edition: Two-DVD special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Uniform titles: Rebecca (Motion picture) Subject(s): De Winter, Maximilian (Fictitious character) -- Drama | De Winter, Mrs. (Fictitious character) -- Drama | Wives -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- Drama | Wives -- Death -- Drama | Country homes -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- Drama | Man-woman relationships -- Drama | Widowers -- Drama | England -- DramaGenre/Form: Thrillers (Motion pictures) | Film adaptations. | Fiction films. | Feature films. | Feature films -- United States. | Video recordings for the hearing impaired.LOC classification: DVD: REBECCA| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Full screen (1.33:1).
Special features: Commentary from 1990 by 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 Sullivan, 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, 1944, and 1950, including Orson Welles's adaptation of the novel for the Mercury Theater; Theatrical release trailer. Container booklet includes an essay "Welcome to the Haunted House" by critic and Selznick biographer David Thompson and selected Selznick production correspondence, including with Hitchcock.
disc 1. Feature film, bonus features -- disc 2. Bonus materials.
Director of photography, George Barnes ; editor, Hal C. Kern ; music, Franz Waxman.
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Gladys Cooper, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Florence Bates, Melville Cooper, Leo G. Carroll, Leonard Carey, Edward Fielding, Philip Winter, Lumsden Hare.
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife's memory haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
Not rated.
DVD, NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
Academy Award, 1941: Best cinematography, black-and-white; Best picture