A shy and self-conscious young lady meets the wealthy well-to-do Maxim de Winter in Monte Carlo, he is recently widowed and has taken an interest in her. After getting to know each other Maxim suddenly asks her to marry him and live with him in Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. After becoming the new Mrs de Winter she becomes aware of Maxim’s troubled state over his late wife Rebecca who seems to still linger over the estate like a great shadow. It doesn’t help that the housekeeper Mrs Danvers is a horrible nasty woman who idolized Rebecca and wants to be rid of the new wife however she sees fit.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Reginald Denny, Gladys Cooper
Year: 1940
Length: 130 Minutes
Classification: PG+ Adult themes
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