The exercise in suspense is dominated by a blistering performance by Judith Anderson as the housekeeper Mrs Danvers.

| Mar 27, 2023

Magnificent romantic-gothic corn, full of Alfred Hitchcock's humor and inventiveness.

| Jul 28, 2022

Don't go to Rebecca thinking you will see some sort of horror or freak movie. It is not a Frankenstein, but an intensely dramatic piece with all the suspense and emotional appeal you could cram into one movie.

| Mar 24, 2022

Hitch concentrates on telling the story. He tells it beautifully, but without the filmic asides for which he is celebrated.

| Mar 24, 2022

They could have made the last half first, and then saved the first half for a bit of Guy Fawkes bonfire. Unfortunately they didn’t; so the whole thing runs off in fireproof projection booths for two hours and a quarter and the audience burns instead.

| Apr 12, 2021

[Hitchcock] has succeeded brilliantly In his initial Hollywood venture. In his Individual fashion, he has re-told in his own creepy, colorful way Miss du Maurier's forbidding, fascinating story of life and death, malignancy and murder.

| Apr 12, 2021

I didn't think they could do it! Capture the suspense, the horror, the beauty, and the strange eeriness of Rebecca, the book. But they have! The screen version is subtle, electrifying -- and almost as fascinating as the novel.

| Apr 12, 2021

Fog, shipwreck, an insane man wandering the beach, water-soaked corpses, inquests, forbidden chambers and finally a destroying fire in a big English country house -- all these flesh-curling delights are to be found in Rebecca.

| Apr 12, 2021

It is a sensitive, beautifully projected portrayal that hints at more good opportunities for Miss Fontaine.

| Apr 12, 2021

[Hitchcock] has certainly done his best with Miss du Maurier's lavish fantasy, and the whole film moves with a creditable gusto and speed. And in this he is greatly assisted by the cast.

| Apr 12, 2021

Three women -- Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers, Florence Bates as the vulgar Mrs. Van Hopper, and Gladys Cooper as Beatrice augment an extraordinary gallery of types, and George Sanders portrays his most malignant heavy, Jack Favell.

| Apr 12, 2021

All the old-fashioned charm, the mystery and the originality of treatment which characterized the book may be found in the talkie.

| Apr 12, 2021

There is beauty and force in the script of Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, while Alfred Hitchcock's direction is typical of that Englishman's wayward genius in a blend of artistry, fantasy and melodrama.

| Apr 12, 2021

The actors, who are headed by Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, and Judith Anderson, represent the characters with uncommon intensity.

| Feb 5, 2020

An enduring template for Gothic tales of women in peril.

| Sep 14, 2018

In its essence, Rebecca is another entry in the Wuthering Heights school of dour, somber, psychological drama, steeped in ultra-British atmosphere. Though overlong...it is beautifully done.

| Mar 28, 2018

Perhaps without the shock and suspense of subsequent work, this is nevertheless another undoubted masterpiece from the atmospheric film maker, and just as essential.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 22, 2015

It is the finest job of direction accomplished by a master director and may justly be called Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece.

| Feb 17, 2015

This time Hitchcock does it all his way, does a splendid job and has a splendid cast to do it with.

| Feb 17, 2009

One of the finest productional efforts of the past year.

| Feb 19, 2008