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Title:

Rebecca / David O. Selznick presents ; produced by David O. Selznik ; screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison ; adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen.

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

Subject:

De Winter, Maximilian (Fictitious character)--Drama.
De Winter, Mrs. (Fictitious character)--Drama.
Wives--Cornwall (County)--Cornwall (County)--Drama.
Wives--Death--Drama.
Country homes--Cornwall (County)--Cornwall (County)--Drama.
England--Drama.
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Widowers--Drama.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, film director.
Sherwood, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955, screenwriter.
Harrison, Joan, 1907-1994, screenwriter.
MacDonald, Philip.
Hogan, Michael, 1893-1977.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989. Rebecca.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Other Titles:

Rebecca (Motion picture)

Notes:

Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Originally released as a motion picture in 1940. Full screen (1.33:1). Special features: Commentary from 1990 by film scholar Leonard J. Leff; isolated music and effects track; new conversation between film critic and author Molly Haskell and scholar Patricia White; new interview with film historian Craig Barron on Rebecca's visual effects; Daphne du Maurier: in the footsteps of Rebecca, a 2016 French television documentary; Making-of-documentary from 2007; Footage of screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests for actors Joan Fontaine, Anne Baxter, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Sullivan, and Loretta Young; Casting gallery with notes by director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick; Hitchcock interviewed by Tom Snyder on a 1973 episode of NBC's Tomorrow; Tomorrow interview with Fontaine from 1980; Audio interviews from 1986 with actor Judith Anderson and Fontaine; Three radio versions of Rebecca, from 1938, 1944, and 1950, including Orson Welles's adaptation of the novel for the Mercury Theater; Theatrical release trailer. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Florence Bates, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Melville Cooper, Leo G. Carroll, Leonard Carey, Lumsden Hare, Edward Fielding, Philip Winter.

Contents:

disc 1. Feature film, bonus features -- disc 2. Bonus materials.

Summary:

A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife's memory haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 135.

ISBN:

1681433508
9781681433509

UPC:

715515203418

Locations:

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)