Rebecca

Running time: 130 minutes

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson

Hitchcock's first Hollywood film was the only one to receive a Best Picture Oscar. All the financial advantages of America meant that for the first time he could really explore his technical imagination and create a gripping blend of detective story, gothic romance and psychological drama. Daphne Du Maurier's fairly lightweight bestseller (about a naive young woman who marries an aristocratic patriarch, then finds her life dominated by his dead wife Rebecca) became a tale of fear and guilt, power and class. A riveting and painful film.

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