Rebecca
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Cast
Laurence Olivier
as Maxim de Winter
Joan Fontaine
as Mrs. de Winter
George Sanders
as Jack Favell
Judith Anderson
as Mrs. Danvers
Nigel Bruce
as Major Giles Lacy
Reginald Denny
as Frank Crawley
C. Aubrey Smith
as Colonel Julyan
Gladys Cooper
as Beatrice Lacy
Florence Bates
as Edythe Van Hopper
Melville Cooper
as Coroner
Reviews
Andres Gomez
A good movie and interesting plot but the characters are a little bit exaggerated and the outcome is quite expectable....
CharlesTheBold
A poor "lady's companion", so self-effacing that we are never given her name (Joan Fontaine), suddenly finds her life changed when a moody widower, Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier), proposes to marry her and take her to his splendid estate of Manderley. It seems like a fairy-tale turned true, ...
waltzma
Absolutely perfect Gothic Thriller that has many imitators but few of equal quality. With "Rebecca" about to hit the Broadway stage (as a musical!), I thought it was time to write my review of perhaps my favorite Hitchcock film. I recall the first time I saw this on TV almost 30 years ago on the ...
John Chard
Do you think the dead come back and watch the living? Rebecca is directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted to screen play from the Daphne du Maurier novel of the same name. It stars Laurence Olvier, Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson. Cinematography is by George Barnes and music scored by Franz Wa...
CinemaSerf
We saw this quite recently on the big screen at Somerset House in London. One of those outdoor screenings - and the fact that it poured with rain on hundreds of us didn't matter one jot (though the hampers got quite sodden). Olivier and the eerily stupendous Judith Anderson provide the ultimate in s...
