Rebecca (1940)

Quotes about Rebecca: [https://muckrack.com/michael-hann Michael Hann] * {{cite journal|title=My favourite Hitchcock: Rebecca|journal=The Guardian|date=7 August 2012|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/aug/07/my-favourite-alfred-hitchcock-rebecca}}

Quotes about Rebecca: [[Heroes|hero; [Laurence Olivier; [:wiktionary:gentlewoman|gentlewoman; [Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock; [Daphne du Maurier; [Cornwall] Rebecca is a film about abusive relationships, and the way power might shift within them – and, most unusually, even for its time – its ] is the worst of the abusers. The romantic might view ]'s {{w|Rebecca (novel)#Principal characters|Max de Winter}} as someone haunted by his past; the realist would see him as someone haunted only by his inability to control his past, specifically his titular deceased wife, and so he alights upon {{w|Joan Fontaine}}'s gauche, clumsy (and nameless) ]'s companion as a wife who will give him no trouble. ...Rebecca was one of three films ] adapted from stories by ], and much the most successful. Du Maurier had been distressed by the liberties he took with {{w|Jamaica Inn (novel)|Jamaica Inn}}; {{w|The Birds (story)|The Birds}} suffered in being transformed from a perfect, ever-tightening noose of a short story set in ] into an expansive movie set on the California coast. Rebeccas near fidelity is owed to {{w|David O. Selznick|Selznick}}, who was "shocked and disappointed beyond words" at Hitchcock's first treatment of the story and told the director: "We bought {{w|Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca}} and we intend to make Rebecca.