STATE THEATRE
‘■PUBLIC DEB. NO. 1.” The screamingly tunny picture. “Public Deb. No. 1,” will be finally shown tonight. .-REBECCA.” With Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine heading a cast of outstanding players and with a story filled with drama, suspense and mystery, David O. Selznick’s latest production, "Rebecca,” will be shown tomorrow night at the State Theatre for a short return season. The film was brilliantly directed by Alfred Hitchcock, known internationally as a master of intrigue, crime and mystery on the screen. "Rebecca” is the film version of the bestselling novel of the same name by Daphne du Mauri’er. It was prepared for the screen by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison and retains all the .gripping drama of the original book. Laurence Olivier, who last year made a tremendous hit as the hero of “Wuthering Heights,” plays the role of Maxim de Winter, the socially prominent owner of Manderley, the vast Tudor estate where most of the action unwinds. Joan Fontaine is cast as the second Mrs de Winter. Rebecca’s successor, who is subjected to the tyrannical and 'sadistic cruelty of Mrs Danvers, played by Judith. Anderson. Other important roles are excellently performed by such well knowns as Gladys Cooper, George Sanders, Reginald Denny, and C. Aubrey Smith. Too many words of praise cannot be said of the exciting and suspenseful manner in which Hitchcock has directed “Rebecca.” He has turned it into one of the most brilliantly conceived and executed melodramas ever to reach the screen. His actors have re-acted to his well known “touch” and the story moves with tremendous impact to a climax which leaves the spectator breathless.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1941, Page 2
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