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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Featuring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Gladys Cooper, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith
Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock’s elegantly crafted Rebecca, his 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 home 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.
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Format: DVD
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1.33:1
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English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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English
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1
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2 Discs |
DVD-9
Supplements
- Commentary by film scholar Leonard Leff, author of Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood
- Isolated music and effects track
- New conversation between film critic and author Molly Haskell and scholar Patricia White
- New interview with special effects historian Craig Barron on the visual effects in Rebecca
- The Making of Rebecca
- Rare screen, hair, makeup and costume tests including Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter, Loretta Young, Margaret Sullavan, and Joan Fontaine
- Casting gallery annotated by director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick
- Television interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Joan Fontaine from 1973 and 1980
- Phone interviews with stars Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson from 1986
- 1938 Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre broadcast, including an interview with Daphne du Maurier
- 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
- Re-issue trailer
- An essay by critic and Selznick biographer David Thomson and selected production correspondence, including letters between David Thomson and Alfred Hitchcock
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