Contributor
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.
Imprint:[S.l.] : Criterion Collection, c2001.
Description2 videodiscs ( 130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Note:A videodisc release of the 1940 motion picture, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier.
Note:Special features: Commentary by film scholar Leonard J. Leff; isolated music and effects track; Screen, hair, makeup and costume tests including Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter, Loreeta Young, Margaret Sullavan and Joan Fontaine; Hitchcock on Rebecca, excerpts from his conversations with Franois Truffaut; phone interviews with Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson from 1986; behind-the-scenes photo gallery; production correspondence and casting notes; deleted scenes script excerpts; 1939 test screening questionnaire; footage from 1940 Academy Awards ceremony; re-issue trailer; three hours of radio show adaptations.
Note:A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
Note : PerformerLaurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Florence Bates, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper, Leo G. Carroll, Leonard Carey, Lumsden Hare, Edward Fielding, Philip Winter.
Note: AwardsAcademy Awards: Best cinematography, black and white ; Best picture (1940)
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