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...first, Jamaica Inn, did not quite come off, due to friction between the bulgy Hitchcock and the bulky Charles Laughton egos. This time Hitchcock does it all his way, does a splendid job and has a splendid cast to do it with...
Nobody else can. For Alfred Hitchcock directed Rebecca, and the 17-stone British melo-maestro knows that nothing is more mysterious in a film than extra sensory perceptions. He knows too that of all mysterious things the most mysterious can be the ordinary human face...
Rebecca is Director Hitchcock's second try at filming a Daphne du Maurier novel...
Producer David O. Selznick has seen to it that Rebecca follows Daphne du Maurier's novel as faithfully as Gone With the Wind followed Margaret Mitchell's. So Director Hitchcock faced the usual problem of filming a wordy book -how to convey long-winded off-stage narrative background without slowing up the fast-moving camera. Out of this handicap Director Hitchcock makes his most exciting scenes. Touching are Joan Fontaine's half-apologetic, half-reluctant reminiscences about her artist father...
...mood for the action. Joan Fontaine brings you to the edge of your chair in the early scenes as she wanders nervously around the great mansion which is pervaded by the ever-lingering memory of her new husband's mysteriously drowned first-wife. The direction of Alfred Hitchcock very nearly matches up to "The 39 Steps" and "The Lady Vanishes," but the plot of "Rebecca" is not as ideally suited to his talent for sustained mystery. Too much coincidence detracts from the force of the plot, especially when the youthful heroine barely escapes being hypnotized into suicide by Rebecca...