Rebecca

Pros: Good movie that can be enjoyed at any time.
Cons: None.

Rebecca is a wonderful story about a women who is haunted by her husband’s dead wife. The new wife, whose name is never revealed, feels that she is constantly competing with Rebecca. She feels that to her husband’s family she can never live up to the...

Pros: Definite Sense of Separation at Ending
Cons: Tiny Story Flaw

The riveting monologue that begins this film may as well have been spoken just this morning. Joan Fontain's spoken introduction to <hmtl>Rebecca</html> is timeless.
Olivier plays the role of mysterious tycoon...

Pros: Suspense and Romance
Cons: None!

Lawrence Olivier's famous quote for the 1940's film, REBECCA. Starring Joan Fontaine as a mystery girl, she married Maxim DeWinter (Olivier) a year after the death of his first wife, Rebecca. The new Mrs. DeWinter is shy, introverted and naive. All she...

Pros: Highly Recommended
Cons: None

Only Alfred Hitchcock’s film to win an Oscar for Best Picture.

This gothic romance has a most eerie love triangle, between the new bride, Joan Fontaine, her husband Laurence Olivier and the first Mrs. De Winter.

Fontaine won the...

Pros: period movie, Lawrence....say no more
Cons: there is no sequel!

Rebecca has been a favorite of mine for a very long time. Sir Olivier (sp?) has always been one of my favorite actors ( along with Tom Hanks and Jack Nicholson). I never give details of the plot in any reviews I do.
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Pros: great cast, great book and adaptation, excellent settings and black and white photography
Cons: The ending is a bit abrupt

So often I have rented a movie upon completion of the book only to be disgusted, disappointed and distraught. Well, maybe distraught is a little overboard, but rest assured that I felt none of these when watching Hitchcock's version of Rebecca.
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Pros: Eccellent performances
Cons: Can be slow at points

This is definitley Hitchcocks best. The performances are amazing. The sets, nothing short of incredible. The final shots in the movie are exquisite. Particularly great performances from Judith Anderson and George Saunders. Apparently, the two leads did...

Pros: Hitchcock's classic suspenseful direction!
Cons: A bit of a slow start

Hitchcock brings the twisted story of Maxim DeWinter to life in his first Hollywood film -- winner of the 1940 Academy Award for Best Picture.

This classic film (based on the novel of the same name)stars Laurence Olivier as the wealthy,...

Pros: Plot, casting, acting, cinematography, direction
Cons: None to my mind

I have no idea how many times I have read the book and seen the movie. I absolutely adore both of them! The movie is a pretty accurate adaptation of the book. As with any movie there some things are omitted and some changes changes were made. Nonetheless the suspense is still there and one is gripped by the events right up until the last scene. The casting is superb! Olivier, Fontaine, and Anderson are wonderful in their roles. Sometimes when playing Trivial Pursuit friends and I like to have "wildcards" in which someone can make up a question. When we have a new player in the group I love to throw in "What was the first name of the second Mrs. deWinter?" Read the book or see the movie to get the answer. (smile)