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Rebecca [videorecording] / United Artists ; produced by David O. Selznik ; screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Additional Titles
- Title on disc label: Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca
- Published
- [Place of publication not identified] : Criterion Collection, [2001]
- Copyright Date
- ©2001
- Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Additional Creators
- Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989, Fontaine, Joan, 1917-2013, Sanders, George, 1906-1972, Anderson, Judith, Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989, Selznick, David O., 1902-1965, United Artists Corporation, and Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Series
- Language Note
- Closed-captioned.
- Summary
- A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 1559409231
- Note
- A videodisc release of the 1940 motion picture, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier.
Special features: Commentary by film scholar Leonard J. Leff; isolated music and effects track; Screen, hair, makeup and costume tests including Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter, Loreeta Young, Margaret Sullavan and Joan Fontaine; Hitchcock on Rebecca, excerpts from his conversations with François Truffaut; phone interviews with Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson from 1986; behind-the-scenes photo gallery; production correspondence and casting notes; deleted scenes script excerpts; 1939 test screening questionnaire; footage from 1940 Academy Awards ceremony; re-issue trailer; three hours of readio show adaptations. - Creation/Production Credits Note
- Photographer, George Barnes ; editor, James Newcom ; music, Franz Waxman.
- Participant/Performer Note
- Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Florence Bates, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper, Leo G. Carroll, Leonard Carey, Lumsden Hare, Edward Fielding, Philip Winter.
- Technical Details
- DVD; Dolby Digital monoaural.
- Terms of Use and Reproduction
- No public performance rights. Classroom instruction and home use permitted.
- Dedication
- UP-ARTSHUM copy Selected to honor Rebecca S. Albitz, on the occasion of receiving tenure-promotion; 2003.
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