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A- |
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A |
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A |
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A+ |
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From book to movie to Oscar.
by JR. (movies profile)
Apr 21, 2008
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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. The real star of the picture is Hitchcock, of course, though Selznick battled him all through the filming process. Lovely Joan Fontaine is endearing as "I", Max DeWinter's TOO YOUNG second wife, (the not yet Sir) Laurence Olivier goes from wood to human nicely, Geroge Sanders is slick, as always and (already Dame) Judith Anderson is most effective as the sexually menacing and deranged Rebecca-obsessed house keeper. One of Franz Waxman's best music scores and one of my favorite Hitchcock films. Top marks. |
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