Rebecca
By: produced by David O. Selznick ; screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Contributors: Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989, actor; Fontaine, Joan, 1917-2013, actor; Sanders, George, 1906-1972, actor; Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989
Edition: Blu-ray special edition.
Series: The Criterion collection -- 135; Criterion collection -- 135.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Drama; Man-woman relationships; Film adaptations; Ghost plays
Other titles: Rebecca (Motion picture)
Description: A shy young bride is neglected by her morose husband who seems to be still obsessed with his deceased first wife.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.

Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier.

Mono, full screen 1.33:1.

Essay by critic and Selznick biographer David Thomson and selected Selznick production correspondence, including with Hitchcock, in container.

Features: audio commentary from 1990 featuring 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 (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 Sullavan, 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, 1941, and 1950, including Orson Welles's adaptation of the novel for the Mercury Theatre; theatrical re-release trailer.

Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Gladys Cooper, Nigel Bruce.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

These are Blu-ray discs made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.

For private home use only.

In English with optional English subtitles.