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Rebecca (1940)
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Rebecca
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"The master once again delivers a suspenser that marks his class and caliber. Not the first time that Hitchcock had adapted Daphne Du Maurier, he had done it earlier in England with Jamaica Inn which is mostly forgotten but had in its offering a newcomer who would be lapped up in Hollywood-Maureen O'Hara and as a villain Charles Laughton. The film is supposed to have been a failure but its brooding photography and direction was in a class of its own. In Rebecca he once again converts the book into a great film with astounding performances by Joan Fontaine & Laurence Olivier. The novel is adapted in its entirety with the ending changed to protect the image of the hero from that of a murderer which spoils the climax a little. In the book the climax where Mrs DeWinter realizes that her husband is a killer transforms her character and the reader is left to imagine the life that she has to live with him in later years. In the movie the entire episode is projected as an accident and ... "
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"I am going to commit murder," whispers our killer, as the camera flits around the jaded revellers at a New Year shindig. "I can imagine the thrill and pleasure I will experience as I stalk my victim..." Shortly after, John Lubbock (Maurizio Bonuglia) survives an attack in an underpass on his way home, and journalist Andrea Bild (Franco Nero), a fellow attendee, decides to investigate. Then a second party goer - invalid Doctor's wife Sophia Bini (Rossella Falk) - is attacked and killed in her home, and Andrea's elderly editor is found dead in a local park, both bodies accompanied by the killer's calling card (a black glove with first one then subsequent fingers cut off). Suddenly, the outspoken, hard-drinking journalist finds himself rising swiftly up the list of suspects. What raises Giornata Nera Per l'Ariete (aka The Fifth Cord) above the average giallo is striking cinematography and a couple of genuinely suspense-filled murders. The sequence involving the Doctor's wife is the mo ... "
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"Always forget this one when talking about Hitchcock's movies, perhaps because it was so thoroughly imprinted with the Selznick 'blockbuster' touch. Fresh from the huge success of Gone With the Wind, the formula is attempted again (bestseller adaptation, big name stars) to lesser success, but with darker overtones thanks to a promising young director. Joan Fontaine plays the cringingly obsequious 'new Mrs. DeWinter' (we never do actually learn her name, Maxim usually refers to her as either 'my darling' or 'you little fool'), and while her performance is uncomfortable for the audience, it is very effective, as it tends to put the audience in her corner . . . when she breaks the priceless knick knack on Rebecca's writing desk, our response is the same; "quick, hide it", and we become just as perplexed by her new husband's lightning quick temper outbursts, creeped out by the stern housekeeper (the excellent Judith Anderson), and ge ... "
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