Rebecca 12/13

[shamshlam]

The film's almost over now, Sara! That means it's nearly time to come and find your Sam... I wish anyway

[surrealfeline]

Wow - not sure how many Trek fans are here but, I was surprised to find out Mrs Danvers was the High Vulcan priestess who fused Spock's katra back into his body in the 'Search for Spock' xD Pretty cool...

[selffless1]

"What do you do with old bones?"

[greenlvr103]

i wish people still say darling today as often as they used to...):

[readtoomuch]

Blackmail, like the truth, is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde ftw!

[elenaaddams]

George Sanders has the perfect voice..

[brgvt97]

It's great to see Mr. Freeze!

[VolkgartenBySquirrel]

These last parts are just exquisite. Hitchcock was a genius. They both grow up fast, and they each do it to shield the other from some impending nastiness. Rebecca (and Ms Danvers) revelled in having a stepped-on man under her thumb, and now Maxim has a girl who really will stand by him, just for him. The guy must have had a miserable childhood. But isn't it surprising how so many other people had been wishing Rebecca dead - even making plans on it.

[NotNowMarti]

Thanks to this movie, I've discovered the real charm of George Sanders, after having seen him in three or four movies before. I've always adored him but never loved as much as upon watching 'Rebecca".

[TheSkylur44]

C Aubrey Smith, the police constable, was born in 1863!!!! Wow! Old enough to remember Custer's Last Stand! He was a teenager then.

[Cybele1986]

George Sanders didn't commit suicide because he was bored, he killed himself because he was lonely, sick and depressed. He was a fragile, insecure man to begin with and went completely downhill after his wife Benita died in 1967 after an extremely painful battle with bone cancer. The Gabors, his stepdaughter Juliet, and his sister Margaret were all devoted to him but he didn't want to become an invalid and become burdensome to his loved ones.

[origin1860]

@Cybele1986

You are absolutely correct! The suicide note about being bored was just George keeping his facade up until the end. The note to his sister to"don't be sad. I am just anticipating the inevitable by a few years s the real note!

[FanofBewitched]

The guy at 2:19 with Laurence and Joan he was in Waterloo Bridge.

[aDieuSeul]

8:29 to 8:30 so precious!

[rotashark]

OMG! it's shere Khan! i just realized it. the whole time i was like WHERE HAVE I HEARD HIS VOICE??? IT WAS DRIVING ME INSANE! and it's from the JUNGLE BOOK!!!

[aDieuSeul]

4:19 GO MAXIM!

[oneindachamber]

I love the dialouge in This movie. Its excellent and It definently keeps the watcher interested.

[Chocodreamgirl1]

"what do you do with old bones?" LOL

[BaremyiahZ]

thumbs up this if you cheered when Maxim finally decked that bastard

[2020wonderbred]

Better warn them Baker's not really doctor -- he's Cosmo Topper.

[Lulubell1295]

Men used to be so...classy same with women. now we have cheap guys. ugh maxim dresses so classy i wish we all still did!

[mrbeefy1515]

some of the best acting ive ever seen by george sanders

[blkchk]

@mrbeefy1515 Shame he committed suicide.

[mrbeefy1515]

@blkchk why? "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." Went out like a true pimp.

[blkchk]

@mrbeefy1515 You think 'a pimp' is someone to emulate and favorably compare someone to? I think it's a shame when anyone can't find something in this world to stimulate their interest. If that's why he did it, then he took the lazy way out. JMO.

[mrbeefy1515]

@blkchk nah he was sick and going downhill anyway. its all about knowin when to throw in the towel and having the balls to do it instead of draggin on like a pathetic maggot

[blkchk]

@mrbeefy1515 We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

[nerdosaurus93]

i wish times were the same, that people still wore these kind of clothes and had manners and etiquette.

[Stardust152]

U don;t blame Maxim for killing Rebecca. It would be hard for anyone to live a life like that. and it was very hard to get a divorce in those days. you had to have a very good reason for getting divorced and maxim didn't have any good reason because of the deal that he and rebecca had made.

[nerdgant]

you can tell that she doesn't look like a scared cat anymore now that she's learned about rebecca and everything. she seems to have a calm about her now

[benjaminFS3616]

i dont know, maxim is suposed to be like 40, and the narrator 20, the guy playing max is a little young.

[recordedpodcast]

@benjaminFS3616

Laurence Olivier was around 33 when they filmed this :)

[benjaminFS3616]

@recordedpodcast thats odd,i had to read this book in english class this year, and of cousrse my teacher is Dr. Nerd and goes into every detail of the book, but he did find a few things in the book that i wouldn't have noticed, and he figured out the aproximate age of the main character and maxim, i guess maxim is supposed to be 42 and the main character 21, ill have to ask my teacher how he figured it out but he also pointed out a few other cool things from little details i ever noticed.

[lorianne03]

I really like Maxim, but it's funny how so many people are on his side and think Favell is the bad guy. Maxim's the one who killed his wife, and Favell is the one trying to see that justice is done. The worst thing Favell did was sleep with his cousin, but it was obviously consensual.

[Fifthmarchful]

Favell is not trying to get justice done, he's trying to blackmail Maxim. While Maxim is definitely not a good person, his crime was done in anger, and Favell does not have that excuse. And while you are right in saying that the relationship between Favell and Rebecca was consensual, they were using Maxim's love of Manderley for their affair, and Favell gloats about it, too.

[Fifthmarchful]

I'm not saying that Maxim doesn't deserve to be imprisoned for life, only that Favell deserves to be in the next cell.

[toothbrush55]

Favel is delightfully smarmy.

[Leellka]

aren't max and his wife pitiful? she is annoying... makes me love Favell! =P

[heathermarietaylor]

Does anyone else pity Mrs. Danvers?

[BSTO88]

Why?

(I'm not being catty...I'd really like to know why.)

[heathermarietaylor]

Well, throughout most of the book, I don't feel pity for her, but in this scene, I do. Favell is using her, and she really doesn't seem to know what to do about him. She was loyal to Rebecca, but to a fault. I just try to picture if I was in her shoes, and it kinda changes the perception. : )

[BSTO88]

ok..i can see that. HERE..you can feel a bit of pity..but either way, she's quite the loon!

Thanks:)

[heathermarietaylor]

Exactly! She makes for quite the interesting character.

[luvlife347]

She was loyal to Rebecca but she was also in loved with her. She wanted Rebecca for herself. But, no, I do not pity Ms. Danvers. She was a true man hater and a crazy stalker to boot.

[Artemis6769]

No.

[luvlife347]

No.

[LexiixoxRoxx]

Omg yes!!!! She was my favorite character in the book and I absolutely loved her. I know she's derranged and a total bitch to the narrator, but her character completely fascinated me.

[lLostTheGame]

Rupert Everett sounds a lot like George Sanders (Cousin Jack Favell) ... or is it just me? LOL!

[grainofsandfan]

George Sand. He killed himself.

[ElectricShed]

Why would anyone in there right mind tell the world that they did it with there cousin on a regular basis? Things sure were different back then.

[AutumnDevi]

back then, the term cousin frequently had imaginary quotation marks around it, example: Oh no, nothings going on...I'm just taking a trip to paris with my..."Cousin".

[MCRrox1996]

FALCON PUNCH!!!!

[Nestalgica]

"What do you do with old bones?"

Best line in the whole movie, I think.

[Grutz100]

almost done!

[duplax67]

what a motherfuuuucker, that Jack

[ovendoll]

Goodness no, that's where he draws the line.

[Eston83]

You have to love George Sanders, He is always so good at being so bad.

[soolovey]

Absolutely :D On the other hand, he would have been a marvellous Sherlock Holmes, I think.

[amazinglyace]

I love him in The Ghost and Mrs Muir too.

[Eston83]

Oh, he was a sly devil in that...fantastic.

[texnomore]

@Eston83 it's his voice that gets me, LOVE his voice!!!! he's a really good scumbag in 'The Ghost and Mrs. Muir', you should see that one, GREAT movie!!!

[ellieb1228]

that punch is sooo fake!!!

[duplax67]

lol ye :P

[BSTO88]

Well I should be glad they didn't have him actually punch the man! This is a MOVIE...you see...

[danaeashley22]

I think in these scenes, Joan is so pretty. I love the hat, I wish women dressed like that today!

[calihartley2010]

@danaeashley22 me 2. Women dress like crap today, even you girls as old as 8. If you want to see well dressed women, one has to go to the Kentucky Derby or to England to visit the aritrocrats. Shame that american women are proud to dress as floozies

[ChikaBeat]

@danaeashley22 Mrs Danvers also looks great with her hat :)

[HRHdianolivier]

@danaeashley22 I agree...and Sir Laurence is impossibly handsome! It's hard to miss the strong presence he emanates.

I was 16 when I saw the entire film and had seen a clip of it 4 years before in English class. I couldnt remember the particular clip...I could only vaguely remember that the main actor was young, had a moustache and was handsome...this has to speak for itself! :)

[krzl09bggsh]

sander's voice. schmexeeh.

[HarborGuy]

Great Drama! Thanks for proving/showing we once had Starts that "could" Act.....without special affectes....

[clairekerrypike]

what does 'we once had Starts that "could" Act' mean?????

[GEVMM]

HarborGuy meant to say 'Stars' but letter T is right next to letter R so he/she must have tapped it not meaning to. And I think he's right, baack then, actors/actresses could act.

[twentiesDOLL12213]

Jack Favell! A nasty heel but George Sanders plays him perfectly, just like in the book smug, oily, and lazy. I love all the quips.

[wolborg105]

I find Maxim and Sanders soo attractive...and I'm a lesbian!

[velocikat]

God, I LOVE it when Maxim clocks Favell! You GO Max!

[ihateskirts]

George Sanders was brillant in this role!

[velocikat]

Agreed. He was outstanding!