Rebecca is A gorgeous black and white film as is gloriously shot in dark moody strokes of lighy; its main setting, manderley, a large estate outside … Joan Fontaine (left) as Mrs. de Winter and Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 film version of Daphne du Maurier's The magistrate tries to determine why Rebecca would have committed suicide, and it is discovered that she had gone to a London doctor on the day of her death.

At the annual costume ball at Manderley, the second Mrs. de Winter wears a costume at the encouragement of Mrs. Danvers, not realizing it was similar to one worn by Rebecca shortly before her death. A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder.

I bet most cannot name any 10 Alfred Hitchcock films without the help of Google search. Gabrielle Mander--along with Carola Campbell--is a contributor to the "Modern Fiction" section of 



With Lily James, Armie Hammer, Keeley Hawes, Kristin Scott Thomas. Use the HTML below.

His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.

The second Mrs. de Winter (Joan Fontaine) clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers (Dame Judith Anderson), and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Rebecca remake in the works. An insurance representative lets himself be talked by a seductive housewife into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses the suspicion of an insurance investigator. Was this review helpful to you? However, on the night of her death, she had informed her husband that she was pregnant and that the father was one of her lovers. Rebecca, Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier, published in 1938.

The narrator later confronts Mrs. Danvers, who says that Maxim does not want her and encourages her to jump out the second-floor window.

Certificate: Passed

After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with handsome widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), a newly married young woman (Lily James) arrives at Manderley, her new husband's imposing family estate on a windswept English coast. This will be a wholly new work for 'em.

5 wins & 10 nominations. Rebecca is a film about abusive relationships, and the way power might shift within them – and, most unusually, even for its time – its hero is the worst of the abusers. The story of Trudy Ederle, who in 1926, was the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Hitchcock, noted for his subtle sexual under-tones in films spares none of that here as Anderson's character and the late titled character's relationship seemed to go much further than employee-employer.

)The heroine subsequently discovers an inner strength and confidence that leads to a shift in power in her marriage.



Alfred Hitchcock's first US film and, amazingly, the only one of his films to win Best Picture Oscar, was adapted from Daphne du Maurier 's novel.

Du Maurier’s bestselling novel reveals much about the author’s fluid sexuality – her ‘Venetian tendencies’ – and about being a boy stuck in the wrong body, writes Olivia Laing Unfortunately for Colin his position of power in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his estranged brother David.




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Hitchcock converts du Maurier's dark, convoluted tale into a slick satire of the upper classes, writes Certificate: Passed