Rebecca [DVD video]

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.

General Note:

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Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.

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Full screen (1.33:1).

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.

Performers:

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.

Contents:

disc one. Feature film, bonus features -- disc two. Bonus materials.

Technical Details:

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital monaural.

Subject Term:

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.

Remarried people -- Drama.