Rebecca(1940)- User Reviews

No wonder this one best picture, in fact, the only Hitchcock film to win best picture. I loved this movie, I didn't realized Laurence Olivier was in it, he was so young! Joan Fontaine was great too. Chilling movie, great plot, you don't really …more»

After the first few minutes of REBECCA, I knew it was going to be great. I thought, "this may end up being one of the best Hitchcocks." But, as it turned out, I was wrong.

The plotline first deals with an unnamed heroine (Joan Fontaine) falling …more»

It had happened before (just one year before with "Gone with the Wind") and it happened again: a book adaptation to film was a runaway hit. Not only it earned a deserved Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940, it was also a box office smash. …more»

It is almost headscratching to comprehend that Alfred Hitchcock, director of this masterpiece of the macabre, never won any other Oscars except for REBECCA, as Best Picture. Lawrence Olivier is superb as Mr. de Winter, a widower who has lost his wife …more»

The movie was good. I watched it in school for English class. There are A LOT of differences...just so you know. The acting was good, but the way the portrayed Mrs. de Winter is a little too awkward. She is too annoying...and Mrs. Danvers is super creepy …more»

This movie is very nice on the whole.This kind of storyline is very typically now.But this movie was made in 1940.This movie is so outstanding on the whole.This movie is worthy to see over and over again.more»

I am 14 years old, and Rebecca is one of my all time favorite movies. It has a way of drawing you in so that you can't leave the room or get up until the final scene. The way this movie ends had me begging for more, but isn't that what makes a …more»

One of his masterpieces. Rebecca is one of those movies that is you have seen yet, you should save it for a night when you want to see something really great. Just when you think you have it figured out it turns itself around.

Seeing this movie makes …more»

When I rented this movie, I thought it would be good, but I didn't know that it would be one of my all-time favorite movies, if not my very favorite! Joan Fontaine is wonderful as the typical bewildered Gothic heroine (sometimes she can be pretty …more»

The beginning of the movie has me scratching my head and I'm thinking, "Why do these people behave so oddly towards each other?" But when the full truth about Rebecca is revealed towards the end, it begins to make more sense and the movie …more»