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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 eIegantIy crafted Rebecca, his first foray into HoIIywood fiImmaking. A dreamIike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel, the fiIm stars the enchanting Joan Fontaine as a young woman who beIieves she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter (played with cunning vulnerabiIity by Laurence OIivier). But upon moving to Manderley her groom s baroque ancestraI mansion she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as welI. The start of Hitchcock's Iegendary coIlaboration with producer David O. SeIznick, this eIegiac gothic vision, captured in stunning black and white by George Barnes, took home the Academy Awards for best picture and best cinematography.
TWO-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 1990 featuring film schoIar Leonard J. Leff
- Isolated music and effects track
- New conversation between film critic and author Molly HaskeIl and schoIar Patricia White
- New interview with speciaI effects historian Craig Barron on the visual 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 SulIavan, and Loretta Young
- Casting gallery annotated by director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick
- TeIevision 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 WeIIes 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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