Rebecca (hitchcock)

Description

For his first American film, Alfred Hitchcock teamed with Producer David O. Selznick (Gone With the Wind) to create a spine-tingling thriller that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Based on Daphne Du Maurier's timeless novel, this dark atmospheric tale of fatal obsession features Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, and Judith Anderson as well as a haunting score by Frank Waxman and Leonard Maltin. After a whirlwind romance, mysterious widower Maxim de Winter (Olivier) brings his shy, young bride (Fontaine) home to his imposing English estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. De Winter finds married life dominated by the sinister, almost spectral presence of Maxim's late wife: the brilliant, ravishingly beautiful Rebecca, who she suspects, still rules Manderley and Maxim from beyond the grave.