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Rebecca [videorecording (DVD)].

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios : distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2008.

Social classes -- Drama.

English literature -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.

Academy Award for Best Picture.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Criterion collection ; 135.

9781681433509 (2017 Criterion Collection Two-DVD Special ed.)

Alternate title:

Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca [videorecording (DVD)]

Daphne Du Maurier : in the footsteps of "Rebecca" [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 (or 2) videodisc(s) (130 min.) : Dolby digital, mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.

Please note: Some copies are the 2017 Criterion Collection Two-DVD Special Edition. See holdings.

Special features: Commentary with film critic Richard Schickel ; isolated music and effects track ; "The Making of Rebecca" featurette ; "The Gothic World of Daphne Du Maurier" featurette ; screen tests ; 3 radio plays ; Hitchcock interviews: audio interviews with Peter Bogdanovich and Francois Truffaut ; original theatrical trailer ; still galleries.

Special features (Criterion Two-DVD Special ed.): New 4K digital restoration ; audio commentary from 1990 featuring film scholar Leonard J. Leff ; isolated music and effects track ; new conversation between film critic and author Molly Haskell and scholar Patricia White ; new interview with special effects historian Craig Barron on the visual effects in Rebecca ; Daphne du Maurier: In the footsteps of 'Rebecca',a 2016 French television documentary ; documentary from 2007 on the making of Rebecca ; footage of screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests including actors Joan Fontaine, Anne Baxter,Vivien Leigh, Margaret Sullavan, and Loretta Young ; casting gallery annotated by director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick ; television interviews with Hitchcock and Fontaine from 1973 and 1980 ; audio interviews from 1986 with actor Judith Anderson and Fontaine ; three radio adaptations of Rebecca, from 1938, 1941, and 1950, including Orson Welles's version for the Mercury Theatre Theatrical rerelease trailer ; PLUS: An essay by critic and Selznick biographer David Thomson and selected production correspondence, including letters between Hitchcock and Selznick.

1.33:1 aspect ratio (fullscreen).

At head of title: Alfred Hitchcock's.

In black and white.

In English with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles ; Criterion Collection copies have English (SDH) subtitles only.

Closed-captioned.

American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. ; screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison ; produced by David O. Selznick ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine with George Sanders, Judith Anderson with Florence Bates, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper, Leo G. Carroll, Leonard Carey, Lumsden Hare, Edward Fielding and Philip Winter.

Winner of 2 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Black and White Cinematography (George Barnes), 1940.

Psychological thriller films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989. Rebecca. Film adaptations.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989.

Fontaine, Joan, 1917-2013.

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