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starring: Judith Anderson, Florence Bates, Nigel Bruce, Leonard Carey, Leo G. Carroll
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
Brand: Key Video
EAN: 9786305122661
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 6301670140
Label: Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Anchor Bay
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 130 minutes
Sales Rank: 3129
Studio: Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: April 12, 1940
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Rebecca is an ageless, timeless adult movie about a woman who marries a widower but fears she lives in the shadow of her predecessor. This was Hitchcock's first American feature, and it garnered the Best Picture statue at the 1941 Academy Awards. In today's films, most twists and surprises are ridiculous or just gratuitous, so it's sobering to look back on this film where every revelation not only shocks, but makes organic sense with the story line. Laurence Olivier is dashing and weak, fierce and cowed. Joan Fontaine is strong yet submissive, defiant yet accommodating. There isn't a false moment or misstep, but the film must have killed the employment outlook of any women named Danvers for about 20 years. Brilliant stuff. --Keith Simanton
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A masterpiece of mystery and suspense.
Rebecca is an atmospheric psychological drama that tells the story of a young, naive girl who marries a man of means who is recently widowed. She moves to Manderley, a house with all the best qualities of the house in Dark Shadows, to find that all the servants and the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, have some mysterious allegiance to Rebecca, the deceased wife.
The young wife's weaknesses are manipulated ruthlessly by Mrs. Danvers, who strangely seems to be maintaining a shrine to Rebecca. ... Read More
Rating: - Rebecca
I read the book long before I saw the movie, and now both are my favorites. So well written and characters perfectly matched and performed in movie. Wonderful mystery that keeps you wondering until it ends and you wish it didn't.
Rating: - Rebecca, Still Haunts me today!!! Great movie.
My grandmother raised me for 11 years which is probably why I have an appreciation for the old black & whites, the musicals, and the quietly incredible.
I remember the very first time I watched Rebecca. I was only 10. I will be 60 this year and it still haunts me. This story could be told today, 2008, or tomorrow, 2020. We are no different and we will still be the same.
Hitchcock wrote the great story, but Joan Fontaine WAS the movie, the mystery, the thrill, the romance, ... Read More
Rating:  - One of Hitchcock's finest!
Rebecca is one of Hitchcock's most brilliant masterpieces and won the Academy Award for 1940's Best Picture. I think that this movie, especially, showcases Hitchcock's talent for directing. This movie doesn't have as much action as, lets say, "North By Northwest", but the plot is very twisted and exciting! Just when you start to think you know what is going to happen the story totally turns around. I will have you glued to the screen till the last second.
Joan Fontaine was an incredible choice for ... Read More
Rating: - "I am Mrs. de Winter now. . ."
If you haven't read Daphne du Maurier's classic novel, the basis for this gorgeous adaptation by Hitchcock and David O. Selznick, you should - even if you've seen the movie twenty times, du Maurier's Gothic tale will offer up additional riches, not the least of them a more leisurely approach to the delicious revelations about the marriage of Maxim and Rebecca de Winter.
That said, the film has two advantages over the book: one, if you wish it, is more speed in arriving at those shocking revelations, ... Read More
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