Rebecca
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Published
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
ISBN
9781681433509, 1681433508
UPC
715515203418

Notes

General Note
Title from title frame.
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
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Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier.
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Full screen (1.33:1).
General Note
Special features on 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 ; on 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.
Creation/Production Credits
Director of photography, George Barnes ; music by Franz Waxmaneditor, Hal C. Kern ; art direction by Lyle Wheeler.
Participants/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.
Description
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.
System Details
DVD; region 1, NTSC; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
Language
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
Awards
Academy Award, 1941: Best cinematography, black-and-white; Best picture
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Hitchcock, A., Selznick, D. O., Sherwood, R. E. 1., MacDonald, P., Hogan, M., Harrison, J., Barnes, G., Waxman, F., Kern, H. C., Wheeler, L., Olivier, L., Fontaine, J., Sanders, G., Anderson, J., Bruce, N., Denny, R., Smith, C. A. 1., Cooper, G., Bates, F., Cooper, M., Carroll, L. G., Carey, L., Fielding, E., Winter, P., Harvey, F., & Du Maurier, D. (2017). Rebecca (Two-DVD special edition.). The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Alfred Hitchcock et al.. 2017. Rebecca. The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Alfred Hitchcock et al.. Rebecca The Criterion Collection, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Hitchcock, Alfred, et al. Rebecca Two-DVD special edition., The Criterion Collection, 2017.

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