Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (Import All Regions)

Buy This Item Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (Import All Regions)  Available from Amazon  $11.53  on 10-31-2008     Rebecca is an ageless, timeless adult movie about a woman who marries a widower but fears she lives in the shadow of her predecessor. This was Hitchcock's first American feature, and it garnered the Best Picture statue at the 1941 Academy Awards. In today's films, most twists and surprises are ridiculous or just gratuitous, so it's sobering to look back on this film where every revelation not only shocks, but makes organic sense with the story line. Laurence Olivier is dashing and weak, fierce and cowed. Joan Fontaine is strong yet submissive, defiant yet accommodating. There isn't a false moment or misstep, but the film must have killed the employment outlook of any women named Danvers for about 20 years. Brilliant stuff. --Keith Simanton *** LICENSED AND MANUFACTURED DVD IMPORTED FROM SOUTH KOREA *** NTSC ALL REGIONS *** ENGLISH LANGUAGE WITH OPTIONAL ENGLISH AND KOREAN SUBTITLES *** Reader Reviews Any picture that can pip "The Grapes of Wrath" to the Best Picture Oscar is obviously one to be reckoned with and we have here in "Rebecca" a very intelligent, well acted and extremely well directed movie. It has a unique feel and air to it verging on noir but the overall effect is brilliant making this movie not just good entertainment but an overall memorable experience! Hitchcock masterfully carries off the various twists and turns of the tale so well that although "The Grapes of Wrath" is also a brilliant film "Rebecca" just about pips it deservedly for the Best Picture Award of 1940. The only beef I've got with this DVD though is in the picture and sound quality which is pretty poor. I'd advise you to stump up with the extra cash for the Criterion Edition which claims to have both visual and audio digital restoration which this DVD sorely needed. The sound in this DVD is Dolby Digital but in Mono. It would have been good if a Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 option was made available as well. Great movie overall but not so great DVD. Perhaps it would be a good idea to wait for the Blu-Ray version with digital visual and audio restoration and with more special features including a true surround sound option.

Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (Import All Regions) Available from Amazon Price: $11.53 Updated on 10-31-2008.

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