Rebecca

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

1940 / 130min / 4K DCP

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again…” Hitchcock was still a newly arrived UK import when this gothic thriller/romance, based on the novel of the same title by Daphne du Maurier, took Outstanding Production (later “Best Picture”) honors at the Academy Awards. Joan Fontaine stars as a terribly self-conscious young woman, never identified by name, who becomes enamored with a saturnine, aristocratic widower, Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier, fresh from Wuthering Heights)—and, once she’s been taken as his bride, obsessed with his late wife’s phantom presence in their home on the Cornwall coast. A marvel of directorial assurance that turns the screws with poise and panache.

Walt Disney Studios/20th Century

Part of In Her Shadow