Alfred Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899 and was an English filmmaker who specialised in the techniques of suspense and psychological thrillers. He has directed more than fifty feature films including Psycho, Rebecca, Dial M For Murder, Rear Window and The Birds. After a career spanning six decades Alfred Hitchcock is still one of the most popular and most recognised filmmakers. Alfred Hitchcock's films have becpme the benchmark for psychological thrillers.
Alfred Hitchcock has said that thrillers allow you "to put their toe in the cold water of fear to see what it's like"
Rebecca
Rebecca was Alfred Hitchcocks first American movie set in England based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier is a 1940 psychological gothic melodrama thriller starring Laurence Olivier as Maxim De Winter, Joan Fontaine as his second wife and Judith Anderson as his housekeeper Mrs Danvers. The film explores the fears of a naive young bride who enters, along with having to deal with him she must deal with his predatory housekeeper and the legacy of his late first wife which maintains a grip on both her husband and his servants.
Information from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_(1940_film)
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