Rebecca Blu-ray

Release Year: 1940

Runtime: 130 min

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Gladys Cooper

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, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

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 Sullivan, and Loretta Young

Casting gallery with notes by director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick • Hitchcock interviewed by Tom Snyder on a 1975 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:

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