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Rebecca / Selznick International presents its picturization of Daphne Du Mauriers celebrated novel ; produced by David O. Selznik ; screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison ; adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
LIBRA DVD 011 521 disc 1-2 + guide
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 135.
- Criterion collection ; 135
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989--Film adaptations.
- Du Maurier, Daphne.
- Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989.
- Remarried people.
- Remarried people--Drama.
- Cornwall (England : County)--Drama.
- Cornwall (England : County).
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Romance films.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide ([24] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Title on disc label: Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2001]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- 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.
- Participant:
- Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson.
- Credits:
- Photographed by George Barnes; supervising film editor, Hal C. Kern; music by Franz Waxman.
- Notes:
- Special features: Commmentary by film scholar Leonard J. Leff; isolated music and effects track; rare screen, hair, makeup and costume tests; 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, ads, posters and promotional memorabilia; production correspondence and casting notes; deleted scene script excerpts; 1939 test screening questionnaire; essay on Rebecca by Daphne de 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 and 1950 Lux Radio theater broadcasts.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1940.
- Based on Rebecca / by Daphne Du Maurier.
- ISBN:
- 1559409231
- OCLC:
- 48509551
- Publisher Number:
- 715515012522
- CC1576D Criterion Collection
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