Rebecca

This Hitchcock film was the first he made in Hollywood and he thought it was a compromise because he did not have complete control. Don't let that fool you. This is a classic film by perhaps the best director in history... Full review

It had happened before (just one year before with "Gone with the Wind") and it happened again: a book adaptation to film was a runaway hit. Not only it earned a deserved Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940, it was... Full review

By the end of the 1930s, working for Michael Balcon at the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation , director Alfred Hitchcock was heading towards the peak of his artistic potential. Films such as 'The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934),' 'The 39 Steps... Full review

London, England's 'notorious' director of psychological thrill, suspense, mystery & drama films, Sir Alfred Hitchcock (8.13.1899-4.29.1980), was nominated for 5 Oscars: "Rebecca" (1940), Hitchcock's 1st US motion picture, earned his 1st directorial Oscar nomination & won the 1941 Oscar for... Full review

It is almost headscratching to comprehend that Alfred Hitchcock, director of this masterpiece of the macabre, never won any other Oscars except for REBECCA, as Best Picture. Lawrence Olivier is superb as Mr. de Winter, a widower who has lost his... Full review

The movie was good. I watched it in school for English class. There are A LOT of differences...just so you know. The acting was good, but the way the portrayed Mrs. de Winter is a little too awkward. She is too... Full review

This movie is very nice on the whole.This kind of storyline is very typically now.But this movie was made in 1940.This movie is so outstanding on the whole.This movie is worthy to see over and over again.... Full review

I am 14 years old, and Rebecca is one of my all time favorite movies. It has a way of drawing you in so that you can't leave the room or get up until the final scene. The way this movie... Full review

When I rented this movie, I thought it would be good, but I didn't know that it would be one of my all-time favorite movies, if not my very favorite! Joan Fontaine is wonderful as the typical bewildered Gothic heroine (sometimes... Full review

The beginning of the movie has me scratching my head and I'm thinking, "Why do these people behave so oddly towards each other?" But when the full truth about Rebecca is revealed towards the end, it begins to make more sense... Full review

Rebecca isn't a masterpiece but it's very comfortably a classic.....Luckily, their approaches gelled in all the film's best sequences, which are set in and around Manderley.....Judith Anderson, in the plum role of Mrs Danvers, is quite unforgettable:....he had a fondness for master shots....The perceptible tug-of-war between their two different visions of what the film should be is one of the most fascinating things about the movie..... ... Full Review

Rebecca holds the unique distinction of being the only Alfred Hitchcock film to win a Best Picture Oscar (more to that, it's one of only three of the director's films even nominated for the award). Also working to that effect is the enrapturing love story that opens the film. ... Full Review

its melodrama, its romance, its extravagant menace -....A gorgeous treat from one of cinema's masters.....no other director could have contrived.....The flourish of that line is a minor, representative jewel in this classic Hitchcock thriller from 1940, adapted from the Daphne du Maurier bestseller.... ... Full Review

FIRST PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2002 Tools: Send to a friend » "Rebecca" has the distinction of being the only Hitchcock-directed film to win the Best Picture Oscar. I must say, though, that I feel that the success of "Rebecca" depends largely on the screenplay (written by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison) and the source novel of the same title (written by Daphne du Maurier). ... Full Review

Rebecca certainly doesn't rank as a perfect film, and even though it's the only Hitchcock film to win an Oscar™ for Best Film, it's not his best-that's between Notorious and three others from the 1950's. Of course Hitchcock was correct in this case-Fontaine works perfectly here in Hitchcock's well crafted, but imperfect Rebecca , the only film he directed to win an Academy Award. ... Full Review