Rebecca (1940) - Criterion Collection (USA, 2001)
Rebecca (1940)
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DVD Contents - Overview
- Rebecca (1940) with commentary track and isolated music score
- 47 minutes of rare screen, hair, makeup and costume tests
- three 60 minute radio adaptations
- telephone interviews
DVD Information
- released by Criterion Collection in 2001 (USA)
- region encoding: region 0
- format: 2 discs, dual layer (DVD9), in large Amaray case
- release date: 20/Nov/2001
- UPC/EAN: 715515012522
- ISBN: 1559409231
- catalogue: CC1576D
- main transfer: NTSC black & white
- status: out of print
- database ID: 3002
DVD Contents - Detailed Information
- Rebecca (1940)
- Feature length commentary track
- by film scholar Leonard J. Leff, author of "Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O Selznick in Hollywood"
- audio: English mono (DD1.0)
- subtitles: none
- Essay on Rebecca author Daphne Du Maurier
- Photo gallery
- hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos chronicling the film's production from location scouting, set photos, and wardrobe continuity to ads, posters, and promotional memorabilia
- Production correspondence and casting notes
- Rare screen, hair, makeup and costume tests
- including Anne Baxter, Margaret Sullavan, Loretta Young, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Fontaine
- length: 47½ minutes (00:47:20)
- audio: English mono (DD1.0)
- subtitles: none
- ratio: 1.33:1
- Re-issue trailer
- 1939 test screening questionnaire
- length: 2½ minutes (00:02:21)
- Footage from the 1940 13th Annual Academy Awards ceremony
- Hitchcock on Rebecca
- excerpts from his conversations with François Truffaut
- length: 8 minutes (00:07:54)
- audio: English mono (DD1.0)
- subtitles: none
- Deleted scene script excerpts
- 1938 Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater radio adaptation broadcast
- including an interview with Daphne Du Maurier
- length: 60 minutes (00:59:53)
- audio: English mono (DD1.0)
- subtitles: none
- 1941 Lux Radio Theater radio adaptation broadcast
- starring Ronald Colman and Ida Lupino, including an interview with David O Selznick
- length: 59 minutes (00:58:57)
- audio: English mono (DD1.0)
- subtitles: none
- 1950 Lux Radio Theater radio adaptation broadcast
- starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
- length: 60½ minutes (01:00:32)
- audio: English mono (DD1.0)
- subtitles: none
- Phone interview with Joan Fontaine
- Phone interview with Judith Anderson
- Feature length isolated music and effects track
- audio: mono (DD1.0)
Booklet/Insert
- 22 pages, including liner notes by Robin Wood, author of "Hitchcock's Films" and "Hitchcock's Films Revisited", and George E. Turner's essay "Du Maurier + Selznick + Hitchcock = Rebecca".
Comments and Notes
- This disc is now out of print, and availability is therefore limited.
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