| Description |
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.. |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 135 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 135.
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| System Details |
DVD; Dolby Digital Monoaural. |
| Cast |
Laurence 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. |
| Credits |
Photographer, George Barnes ; editor, James Newcom ; music, Franz Waxman. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. |
| Summary |
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 |
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 François 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. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989 -- Film adaptations.
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Wives -- England -- Drama.
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Wives -- Death -- Drama.
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England -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Suspense films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Selznick, David O., 1902-1965.
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Sherwood, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955.
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Harrison, Joan, -1994.
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Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.
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Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989.
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Fontaine, Joan, 1917-2013.
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Sanders, George, 1906-1972.
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Anderson, Judith, 1897-1992.
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Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989.
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United Artists Corporation.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Note |
Title on disc label: Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca |
| ISBN |
1559409231 |
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9781559409230 |
| Standard No. |
715515012522 |
| Music No. |
CC1576D Criterion Collection |
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