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Criterion Collection: Rebecca (2 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Romance becomes psychodrama in AIfred Hitchcock s elegantly crafted Rebecca, his first foray into HoIlywood filmmaking. A dreamIike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 noveI, the film stars the enchanting Joan Fontaine as a young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter (played with cunning vuInerability by Laurence OIivier). But upon moving to ManderIey her groom s baroque ancestral mansion she soon Iearns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamentaI, brooding Maxim as welI. The start of Hitchcock's legendary collaboration with producer David O. Selznick, this elegiac gothic vision, captured in stunning bIack and white by George Barnes, took home the Academy Awards for best picture and best cinematography.
TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITlON FEATURES
- New 4K digitaI restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 1990 featuring fiIm scholar Leonard J. Leff
- Isolated music and effects track
- New conversation between fiIm critic and author MoIIy HaskelI and schoIar Patricia White
- New interview with special effects historian Craig Barron on the visuaI effects in Rebecca
- Documentary from 2007 on the making of Rebecca
- Screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests incIuding actors Joan Fontaine, Anne Baxter,
Vivien Leigh, Margaret SuIlavan, and Loretta Young
- Casting gallery annotated by director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick
- Television interviews with Hitchcock and Fontaine from 1973 and 1980
- Audio interviews from 1986 with actor Judith Anderson and Fontaine
- Three radio adaptations of Rebecca, from 1938, 1941, and 1950, incIuding Orson WelIes s version for the Mercury Theatre
- TheatricaI rereIease trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic and Selznick biographer David Thomson and selected production correspondence, including Ietters between Hitchcock and SeIznick |
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