Review: Did we need another 'Rebecca'? No, no we didn't.
It’s asking for trouble remaking Hitchcock, but with “Rebecca” you might be able to see a sliver of an opening. It’s justly revered as a ghostly Gothic masterpiece and the only film of Hitch's to win best picture. Yet Hitchcock, himself, said it’s not “a Hitchcock picture.” He called his adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 book “a novelette, really” and noted that, besides, the Oscar didn’t go to himself but to producer David O. Selznick.
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