Rebecca
DVD - 2017
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Film adaptations
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, NY] :
Criterion Collection
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
- Item Description
- Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Full screen (1.33:1).
Special features: Commentary from 1990 by film scholar Leonard J. Leff; isolated music and effects track; new conversation between film critic and author Molly Haskell and scholar Patricia White; 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; Making-of-documentary from 2007; 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. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- Format
- DVD, NTSC region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
- Audience
- Not rated.
- Awards
- Academy Awards, 1941: Best cinematography, black-and-white; Best picture
- Production Credits
- Photographer, George Barnes ; editor, Hal C. Kern, James Newcom ; music, Franz Waxman.
- ISBN
- 9781681433509
- disc 1. Feature film, bonus features
- disc 2. Bonus materials.
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