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Binding: VHS Tape Brand: Key Video EAN: 9786305122661 Format: Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC ISBN: 6301670140 Label: Anchor Bay Languages: Manufacturer: Anchor Bay Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Anchor Bay Release Date: September 01, 1998 Running Time: 130 minutes Studio: Anchor Bay Theatrical Release Date: April 12, 1940 Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: Rebecca is an ageless, timeless adult movie about a woman who marries a widower but fears she lives in the shadow of her predecessor. This was Hitchcock's first American feature, and it garnered the Best Picture statue at the 1941 Academy Awards. In today's films, most twists and surprises are ridiculous or just gratuitous, so it's sobering to look back on this film where every revelation not only shocks, but makes organic sense with the story line. Laurence Olivier is dashing and weak, fierce and cowed. Joan Fontaine is strong yet submissive, defiant yet accommodating. There isn't a false moment or misstep, but the film must have killed the employment outlook of any women named Danvers for about 20 years. Brilliant stuff. --Keith Simanton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - RebeccaI read the book long before I saw the movie, and now both are my favorites. So well written and characters perfectly matched and performed in movie. Wonderful mystery that keeps you wondering until it ends and you wish it didn't. Rating: - Rebecca, Still Haunts me today!!! Great movie.My grandmother raised me for 11 years which is probably why I have an appreciation for the old black & whites, the musicals, and the quietly incredible. I remember the very first time I watched Rebecca. I was only 10. I will be 60 this year and it still haunts me. This story could be told today, 2008, or tomorrow, 2020. We are no different and we will still be the same. Hitchcock wrote the great story, but Joan Fontaine WAS the movie, the mystery, the thrill, the romance, ... Read More Rating:  - One of Hitchcock's finest!Rebecca is one of Hitchcock's most brilliant masterpieces and won the Academy Award for 1940's Best Picture. I think that this movie, especially, showcases Hitchcock's talent for directing. This movie doesn't have as much action as, lets say, "North By Northwest", but the plot is very twisted and exciting! Just when you start to think you know what is going to happen the story totally turns around. I will have you glued to the screen till the last second. Joan Fontaine was an incredible choice ... Read More Rating: - "I am Mrs. de Winter now. . ."If you haven't read Daphne du Maurier's classic novel, the basis for this gorgeous adaptation by Hitchcock and David O. Selznick, you should - even if you've seen the movie twenty times, du Maurier's Gothic tale will offer up additional riches, not the least of them a more leisurely approach to the delicious revelations about the marriage of Maxim and Rebecca de Winter. That said, the film has two advantages over the book: one, if you wish it, is more speed in arriving at those shocking ... Read More Rating: - Rebecca - Better choices.This DVD leaves a lot to be desired. First, there's the dreadful artwork. Second, the Korean packaging is poorly done. Third, the picture quality is not very good and has a few stops and starts which are distracting. My old VHS version shows better. If you simply must have "Rebecca" and can't find anything better, by all means, go for it. It's still one of the all time great movies! Even this version can't undo that. |
