Rebecca (1940)
When a naive young woman marries a rich widower, they settle in his gigantic mansion, where she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants.
DVD Features:
- Commentary by film scholar Leonard J. Leff, author of Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood
- Isolated music and effects track
- New digital film and sound restoration
- Rare screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests including Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter, Loretta Young, Margaret
Sullavan, and Joan Fontaine
- Footage from the 1940 Annual Academy Awards ceremony, at which Rebecca won Best Picture and Best Cinematography Oscars
- Hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos chronicling the film's production from location scouting, set photos, and wardrobe continuity to ads, posters, lobby cards, and promotional memorabilia
- Illustrated essay on Daphne du Maurier, author of the book on which Rebecca is based
- Hitchcock on Rebecca: excerpts from the director's conversations with filmmaker Francois Truffaut
- Phone interviews with star Joan Fontaine and Dame Judith Anderson from 1986
- Hitchcock's casting notes
- Reissue trailer
- Production correspondence and casting notes
- 1939 test screening questionnaire
- Complete broadcast of the 1938 Campbell Playhouse radio adaptation, starring Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre players, including an interview with Daphne du Maurier
- 1941 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast starring Ronald Colman & Ida
Lupino, including and an interview with David O. Selznick
- 1950 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast starring Laurence Olivier & Vivian Leigh
- Liner notes by Robin Wood, author of the groundbreaking book Hitchcock's Film and Hitchcock's Film Revisited in a 22-page booklet
- Number of discs: 2
