Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- age difference
- obsession
- monte carlo
- bride
- cornwall
- england
- love
- film noir
- rural area
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Laurence Olivier
Maxim de Winter
Joan Fontaine
Mrs. de Winter
George Sanders
Jack Favell
Judith Anderson
Mrs. Danvers
- Gladys Cooper — Beatrice Lacy
- Nigel Bruce — Giles Lacy
- Reginald Denny — Frank Crawley
- C. Aubrey Smith — Colonel Julyan
- Melville Cooper — Coroner
- Florence Bates — Edythe Van Hopper
- Leonard Carey — Ben
- Leo G. Carroll — Dr. Baker
- Edward Fielding — Frith
- Lumsden Hare — Tabbs
- Forrester Harvey — Chalcroft
- Directed
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written
- Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
Production
- Studio
- Selznick International Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
