Rebecca

Summary

Mr Punch Presents: REBECCA, based upon the best-selling novel by Daphne du Maurier. Laurence Olivier plays Maxim de Winter and Vivien Leigh is the shy and naive ladies companion that he meets while holidaying in Monte Carlo. They fall in love, get married and return to Maxim's beloved Manderley in Cornwall, where the second Mrs de Winter now meets the mysterious Mrs Danvers and finds that Rebecca is not forgotten. The film was to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
               

Hollywood Playhouse is a collection of Oscar winning films adapted for the radio and performed by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. 

This programme has been re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast.

These radio dramas were….to become as popular as the movies themselves. Hollywood Movie Memories.

A lovely series to add to any film, audio or crime lovers’ collection. Audio World.

This is an excellent audio product that will appeal to the majority of audiobook listeners. Talking Business.

An altogether brilliant film, haunting, suspenseful, handsome and handsomely played. New York Times
            

Rebecca is a delirious Gothic melodrama, swimming with queer undercurrents. BBC
 
 One of Hitchcock's creepiest, most oppressive films. The Guardian