Imagine daring to make another version of Rebecca. Hitchcock’s 1940 film is the version that is bound to overshadow any subsequent attempt to put Daphne Du Maurier’s story on any screen large or small. Laurence Olivier plays Max de Winter whose dead wife Rebecca broods over Manderley, the sinister stately home he takes his unnamed bride – played by Joan Fontaine in her first screen role – back to.
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