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mvie mu-1017293: Emphasis On Mood Over Character Or Plot Drags Down "Rebecca:"The Ultimate Tale Of Second-Wife Syndrome!

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:11:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author wlswarts - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: Rebecca - An Early Hitchcock Masterpiece

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:05:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dragonfire88 - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: It’s Boring. Deal.

Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:57:49 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author truckturner - 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)...

mvie mu-1017293: Rebecca (1940) Movie Review: Hitchcock's Only Oscar Winner

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:07:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author andaryl - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: The Moose Hole - Making Violent Love Behind a Palm Tree

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:09:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mickeymoose15 - 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’...

mvie mu-1017293: A Timeless Classic

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:48:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tamcor - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: Lean N Mean III: This time it's Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca (1940)

Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:52:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: The most confusing movie that I have ever seen...

Fri, 24 Oct 2003 18:14:52 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author ksanchez - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: I'm addicted to the book and the movie

Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:53:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bill_crawford - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: Alfred Hitchcock's -Rebecca- 1940-The Criterion Collection

Sat, 29 Jun 2002 02:24:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author artbyjude - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: Rebecca (1940)

Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:53:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BrianKoller - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: Classic Gothic Romance-Drama: Rebecca

Sun, 8 Jul 2001 19:05:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tbrown - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: the child bride of love: Olivier and Fontaine in Hitchcock's Rebecca

Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:56:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mangiotto - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: Not From Sunnybrook Farm

Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:44:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author houdiniphile - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: The character who wasn't there

Wed, 1 Nov 2000 19:09:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: Gothic Love Triangle

Sat, 7 Oct 2000 21:06:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moviebuff77 - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: The best adaption I've seen

Tue, 16 May 2000 17:11:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author manhattan15 - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: Great Movie!

Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:29:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author melissattl - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: Rebecca.....I watch this movie over and over!

Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:49:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author YUMMYKAZ - 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.

But you will notice something new...

mvie mu-1017293: Suspenseful Love Story

Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:10:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kcupec - 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...

mvie mu-1017293: "You think I loved Rebecca? I hated her!"

Thu, 18 Nov 1999 03:58:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Ska8200 - 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...