Rebecca DVD

Runtime: 130 min

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce

Studios: Selznick International Pictures

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.

Special Features:

New 4K digital restoration

Audio commentary from 1990 featuring film scholar Leonard J. Leff. Isolated music and effects track.

New conversation

Between film critic and author Molly Haskell and scholar Patricia White.

New interview

With film historian Craig Barron on Rebecca’s visual effects.

Daphne du Maurier: In the Footsteps of Rebecca

A 2016 French television documentary.

Making-of documentary from 2007

Footage of screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests for actors Joan Fontaine, Anne Baxter, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Sullavan, and Loretta Young.

Casting gallery with notes

By director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick.

Hitchcock interviewed by Tom Snyder

On a 1973 episode of NBC’s Tomorrow. Tomorrow interview with Fontaine from 1980.

Audio interviews from 1986

With actor Judith Anderson and Fontaine.

Three radio versions of Rebecca, from 1938, 1941, and 1950

Including Orson Welles’s adaptation of the novel for the Mercury Theatre.

Theatrical rerelease trailer

PLUS

An essay by critic and Selznick biographer David Thomson and selected Selznick production correspondence, including with Hitchcock.

Technical Specifications:

• Black & White
• Monaural
• 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio