Story Line
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
“"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."”
Top Cast
Joan Fontaine
Mrs. de Winter
Laurence Olivier
Maxim de Winter
George Sanders
Jack Favell
Judith Anderson
Mrs. Danvers
Nigel Bruce
Major Giles Lacy
Reginald Denny
Frank Crawley
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Rating
7.9/ 10
Release Date
1940-03-23
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
MysteryRomanceThrillerDrama
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User Reviews (7)
Andres Gomez
8/10
•6/28/2013A good movie and interesting plot but the characters are a little bit exaggerated and the outcome is quite expectable.
CharlesTheBold
No rating•3/3/2017
A poor "lady's companion", so self-effacing that we are never given her name (Joan Fontaine), suddenly finds her life changed when a moody widower, Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier), proposes to marry her and take her to his splendid estate of Mand...
waltzma
10/10
•12/14/2017Absolutely perfect Gothic Thriller that has many imitators but few of equal quality.
With "Rebecca" about to hit the Broadway stage (as a musical!), I thought it was time to write my review of perhaps my favorite Hitchcock film. I recall the first...
John Chard
10/10
•7/24/2019Do you think the dead come back and watch the living?
Rebecca is directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted to screen play from the Daphne du Maurier novel of the same name. It stars Laurence Olvier, Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson. Cinematograph...