Rebecca

Pros: Interesting, entertaining movie with decent suspense and good cast.
Cons: Could be too slow at times for some viewers.

I have enjoyed several Hitchcock movies over the years.  I have picked up more of his earlier movies on DVD in the last several months and have started to watch some of them.  I just watched Rebecca for the first ...

Pros: Great acting, cinematography and screenplay
Cons: Slow paced melodrama at times

Released in 1940, Rebecca was Alfred Hitchcock’s first Hollywood movie and his only movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture. It was nominated for 11 Oscars on all, with George Barnes also winning for Best Cinematography. And it was one of ...

Pros: acting of Laurence Olivier and Judith Anderson, Hitchcock's direction
Cons: none

Adapted from the book by Daphne du Maurier, the film Rebecca was the first American film project for Alfred Hitchcock. David O. Selznick, who had previously produced the classic Gone with the Wind, also produced...

Pros: Flawless acting, witty script, great music, the last half-hour
Cons: A wee bit too much foreplay.

One great thing about my grandmother is that every time we go to visit her, she tells me to help myself to anything... and when I laid eyes upon her collection of movies, I about drooled like a kid on Christmas Eve. One such movie I absolutely knew I ...

Pros: Olivier and Fontaine, and the incredible Judith Anderson
Cons: Missing a few key Hitchcock trademarks,and takes some time to see

Long discussed as the first film Alfred Hitchcock made in Hollywood, as well as the beginning of the legendary conflict between Selznick and Hitchcock, this movie is in the end, best remembered as a magnificent film, worthy of every Academy Award it...

Pros: Sanders, visually stunning
Cons: Characters, performances, script, tedium

Naive, somewhat bumbling young Joan Fontaine falls for somewhat prickly British nobleman Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier), and quickly moves in with and marries him. She spends the rest of the film living (in the family estate dubbed Manderley) ...

Pros: Judith Anderson, Joan Fontaine
Cons: some of the dialogue, time length

It is hard to imagine that the only film from director Alfred Hitchcock’s comprehensive filmography to receive an Academy Award for Best Picture was the one project with the least ‘Hitchcockian’ mannerisms for which he is world renowned for today, but it’...

Pros: Good direction, Good sense of mood, Acting
Cons: Light on character, Slow plot, Lack of DVD bonus features

Sometimes, I manage to forget how much I know or how much I've experienced until I experience it again. For example, I forget about the classic 18th Century English Gothic novel tradition until I encounter something that utilizes that format. I ...

Pros: direction, production, cast, cinematography, script
Cons: lengthy, dubious resolution

In 1940, David O. Selznick was still basking in the enormous commercial and critical success of his Gone With the Wind. The producer's next project was nearly as successful, another box office sensation that would win Best Picture in addition to...

Pros: It's an intriguing and suspenseful story.
Cons: The first name of the second Mrs. de Winter is never mentioned.

What happens when everyone frequently compares you to your husband's late first wife? This is what happens in Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 film "Rebecca". This classic, Best Picture Oscar winner stars Sir Laurence Olivier as George Fortescu Maximillian de ...

Pros: performance, direction
Cons: some may underestimate its depths

Keats based his entire canon on the search for the immortal beloved – the shining ideal that, once attained, becomes something considerably more mundane (Madonna/w-hore), but, clearly, the desire for what can never be had is something that is a staple of...

Pros: Excellent character study!
Cons: Ending is more than a bit weak

REBECCA (1940) is a film adaptation of a novel of the same name as directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontain.

This is certainly not your standard Hitchcock film! The original story by Daphne du Maurier has...

Pros: casting, story, cinematography
Cons: length

I love Hitchcock and I love Du Maurier's Rebecca, so you may think it a no-brainer that I am a huge fan of Hitchcock's Rebecca. Far too often however, I have seen my favorite books and stories butchered on the big screen, so I truly appreciate old...

Pros: This was the first of many Hitchcock films...most of which were better.
Cons: The poor girl didn't even have a name....

I first read Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca when I was in middle school. It confused me then, but I chalked that up to inexperience and forgot about it. I reread it about three years ago and it STILL confused me. So, when I saw Alfred Hitchcock's movie ve ...

Pros: great story
Cons: might not appeal to action addicts

I may be a little biased because I love old movies, and I love the writings of Daphne DuMaurier, so of course, I loved this combination! I have seen this movie several times and I'm sure I will see it again. The premise is this: A young orphan girl is...