![]() Laurence Olivier plays Maxim DeWinter, heir to the estate of Manderley who is in Monte Carlo looking to get away from the place because of the death of his first wife Rebecca. Yet Rebecca does have a nice Gothic horror feel to it though there is nothing supernatural going on here. ![]() Off the top of my head I would say Vertigo, North By Northwest, Shadow of a Doubt, and Spellbound are all qualitatively better than Rebecca. Also Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson were nominated and all came up short. John Ford won his second Oscar for Best Director for The Grapes of Wrath that year instead. I've always found it curious that of all the films Alfred Hitchcock directed Rebecca was the one that wound up with the Best Picture Oscar and that Hitchcock didn't receive Best Director for it. Reviewed by bkoganbing 8 / 10 On The Road To Manderley Danvers (Dame Judith Anderson), and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley.-Col Needham de Winter (Joan Fontaine) clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year before. She and Max fall in love, marry, and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. ![]() A shy lady's companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter (Sir Laurence Olivier).
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