Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the Hollywood psychological thriller movie Rebecca is a 1940 Academy Award winner. This movie is the director’s first American project with a screenplay adaptation by Robert E Sherwood and Joan Harrison. Rebecca is adapted from the original novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier in the year 1938. The novel has been adapted many times and the most remarkable creation was the 1940 one. The film was a great hit of its time and became a Hollywood classic.
The film was produced by David O. Seiznick, cinematographed by George Barnes, edited by W. Donn Hayes and distributed by Selznick International Pictures United Artists. The music score was given by Franz Waxman. Rebecca was released on April 12, 1940 in the United States of America. Rebecca, the 1940 movie, was made in the language English with a total budget of $1,288,000, and runs for 130 minutes. The tagline of Rebecca runs like this: “The shadow of this woman darkened their love.”
Starcast of Rebecca (1940)
This 1940 Hollywood movie Rebecca stars Laurence Olivier playing the role of Maxim de Winter, Joan Fontaine in the role of his second wife, and Judith Anderson playing the role of Mrs. Danvers, Winter’s late wife’s housekeeper. The other actors in this movie include: George Sanders as Jack Favell, Nigel Bruce as Major Giles Lacy, Reginald Denny as Frank Cawley, and many others.
Plot Outline of Rebecca
The movie is a gothic tale of the lingering memory of Rebecca, the first wife of Max. Joan Fontaine plays the role of a naïve young woman who marries Maxim de Winter, a rich widower. But when the family settles in the gigantic Manderley mansion, she finds the memory of his first wife trying to maintain a grip on her husband and the servants in the house. The film starts with images of a ruined country manor, creating an eerie atmosphere and a narrator stating that she can never return to Manderley.
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The key turning point of the movie arrives when Maxim de Winter reveals that he murdered his first wife, Rebecca, which was tactfully altered so that it seemed her death was accidental. He admits that he murdered Rebecca because of his hatred towards her and her extra-marital affair with Jack. The viewers wait anxiously as the film comes to its climax with the death of Mrs. Danvers in a fire.
The cinematic brilliance of Alfred Hitchcock is proven once again in the psychological thriller, Rebecca.
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