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Rebecca

IMDb 7.5 1979 • 55 min • MysteryDrama

Director

Hugh Whitemore

Country

GB

Plot Summary

Rebecca is a four-part British television miniseries dramatised by Hugh Whitemore, adapted from Daphne du Maurier's eponymous 1938 mystery novel (which had famously been interpreted to film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940). A naive young woman marries a wealthy widower, but grows haunted by his late wife's legacy and the sinister housekeeper's obsession with the deceased Rebecca.

Top Cast

Joanna David
Joanna David The Girl / Mrs de Winter
Jeremy Brett
Jeremy Brett Maximilian 'Maxim' de Winter
Anna Massey
Anna Massey Mrs Danvers
Hugh Morton
Hugh Morton Frith
Richard Willis
Richard Willis Robert