REBECCA [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Rebecca was named Best Picture of the year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1940, but chances are it could win any year. This brilliant adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's celebrated novel won virtually every accolade imaginable, including two Academy Awards and nine other nominations. Thanks to the masterful direction of alfred Hitchcock, this all-time cinema classic is as chilling and charismatic today as when it was first released.; ; A timid, young ladies' companion (Joan Fontain) is on vacation when she meets the handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier), whose wife Rebecca had recently died in a boating accident. The two fall in love, and when Maxim asks her to marry him, she delightedly agrees, Her joy is short-lived, however. When she returns to the de Winter estatem the new Mrs. de Winter discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone there.
• Cast: 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, Billy Bevan, Egon Brecher, Gino Corrado, Alfred Hitchcock, Leyland Hodgson, Alphonse Martell, William H. O'Brien, Ronald R. Rondell, Daphne Du Maurier, Robert E. Sherwood
• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Runtime: 2:10
• Company: Anchor Bay Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie