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Rebecca / Selznick International presents ; produced by David O. Selznick ; screen play by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison ; adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 135.
- The Criterion collection ; 135
- Standardized Title:
- Rebecca (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989--Film adaptations.
- Du Maurier, Daphne.
- Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989.
- De Winter, Maximilian (Fictitious character)--Drama.
- De Winter, Maximilian (Fictitious character).
- De Winter, Mrs. (Fictitious character)--Drama.
- De Winter, Mrs. (Fictitious character).
- Wives--England--Cornwall (County)--Drama.
- Wives.
- Wives--Death--Drama.
- Country homes--England--Cornwall (County)--Drama.
- Country homes.
- Widowers.
- Remarried people.
- Death.
- England--Drama.
- England.
- England--Cornwall (County).
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Remarried people--Drama.
- Widowers--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Film adaptations.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films -- United States.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- stamping
- Edition:
- Two-DVD special edition.
- DVD edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
- digital optical mono Dolby Digital
- full screen (1.33:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Disc one. Feature film, bonus features
- disc two. Bonus materials.
- Participant:
- Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper, Florence Bates, Melville Cooper, Leo G. Carroll, Leonard Carey, Lumsden Hare, Edward Fielding, Philip Winter, Forrester Harvey.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, George Barnes; music, Franz Waxman; editor, Hal C. Kern; art direction by Lyle Wheeler.
- Notes:
- Based on Rebecca / by Daphne Du Maurier.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1940.
- Title from title frame.
- Special features: disc one: Commentary from 1990 by film scholar Leonard J. Leff; new conversation between film critic and author Molly Haskell and scholar Patricia White; Making-of-documentary from 2007; Theatrical release trailer; isolated music and effects track -- disc two: 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; 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.
- Academy Award, 1941: Best cinematography, black-and-white; Best picture
- ISBN:
- 9781681433509
- 1681433508
- OCLC:
- 994618290
- Publisher Number:
- 715515203418
- CC2800D The Criterion Collection
- Online:
- View IMDb information about film: Rebecca (1940)
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