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Title: Rebecca (1940)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Laurence Olivier | ... | 'Maxim' de Winter | |
| Joan Fontaine | ... | Mrs. de Winter | |
| George Sanders | ... | Jack Favell | |
| Judith Anderson | ... | Mrs. Danvers | |
| Nigel Bruce | ... | Major Giles Lacy | |
| Reginald Denny | ... | Frank Crawley | |
| C. Aubrey Smith | ... | Colonel Julyan | |
| Gladys Cooper | ... | Beatrice Lacy | |
| Florence Bates | ... | Mrs. Van Hopper | |
| Melville Cooper | ... | Coroner | |
| Leo G. Carroll | ... | Dr. Baker | |
| Leonard Carey | ... | Ben | |
| Lumsden Hare | ... | Tabbs | |
| Edward Fielding | ... | Frith | |
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Philip Winter | ... | Robert |
A shy lady's companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter (Sir Laurence Olivier). She and Max fall in love, marry, and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year before. The second Mrs. de Winter (Joan Fontaine) clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers (Dame Judith Anderson), and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley. Written by Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
... and it's clear to see throughout that Maxim de Winter is not overwrought with joy as we witness a story tacking in one direction, gradually adjusting course to another and finally distorting and folding in on itself with magnificent Hitchcockian escalation towards the end.
If you view this through contemporary eyes alone it's easy to see it as dated, old fashioned, antique perhaps, many things in the past fall foul of fashion sooner or later. Place a pair of pince-nez on the bridge of your nose and witness two great stars, Joan Fontaine is outstanding, add immense depth to an already deep, dark and disturbing tale with some sinister supporting characters thrown in for good measure, none more so than Judith Anderson as the mysterious and cryptic Mrs. Danvers.