Author: Joan Fontaine

Brand: The Criterion Collection

Features:

• Shrink-wrapped

Format: Collector's Edition

PartNumber: rebecca-2

Release Date: 05-09-2017

Details: Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock s elegantly crafted Rebecca, his first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel, the film stars the enchanting Joan Fontaine as a young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter (played with cunning vulnerability by Laurence Olivier). But upon moving to Manderley her groom s baroque ancestral mansion she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well. The start of Hitchcock's legendary collaboration with producer David O. Selznick, this elegiac gothic vision, captured in stunning black and white by George Barnes, took home the Academy Awards for best picture and best cinematography. br brTWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESbr- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack br- Audio commentary from 1990 featuring film scholar Leonard J. Leffbr- Isolated music and effects track br- New conversation between film critic and author Molly Haskell and scholar Patricia Whitebr- New interview with special effects historian Craig Barron on the visual effects in Rebeccabr- Documentary from 2007 on the making of Rebeccabr- Screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests including actors Joan Fontaine, Anne Baxter,brVivien Leigh, Margaret Sullavan, and Loretta Youngbr- Casting gallery annotated by director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznickbr- Television interviews with Hitchcock and Fontaine from 1973 and 1980br- Audio interviews from 1986 with actor Judith Anderson and Fontainebr- Three radio adaptations of Rebecca, from 1938, 1941, and 1950, including Orson Welles s version for the Mercury Theatrebr- Theatrical rerelease trailerbr- PLUS: An essay by critic and Selznick biographer David Thomson and selected production correspondence, including letters between Hitchcock and Selznick

UPC: 715515203319

EAN: 0715515203319

Model: rebecca-2

Languages: English

Binding: blu_ray

Item Condition: New