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  • Lmao "Is that my food??"

  • Oopps! Meant to say I agree with metalqueen

  • Yes me too! Absolutely!

  • "Just be yourself and they'll all adore you." Lies!

  • I love the way he says "poor darling", so cute!

  • I think Florence Bates is brilliant in her role

  • So funny to read comments here from people who do not understand the mannerisms of those days. A lot of ignorance.

  • mizzuz de winter!!!

  • I`d like to kick that old bag in the arse. "Great ladies" are the ordinary women of this world, not the bloody `hoity toity` buggers who sojourn around the world as if they alone own the place. It makes me so mad when people act as if there are some who are superior to others.

  • Is it just me, or does anyone else prefer these old actors and actresses to the modern day ones? At least these people seem human and show an expression with each emotion.

  • @metalqueen2011

    Today's actors and actresses seem very lethargic and cynical. No pep to their step. Removed and unromantic. Zombie-ish. Boring to watch. Also, no eye-candy.

  • they should remake this movie.

  • @sarahata22 They have. There is a BBC tv series with Jeremy Brett in it that you can find on youtube. I think there was another version posted with a different actor but I have not been able to find it in a while. If you want to see what other versions are available, try the IMDB.

  • @metalqueen2011 It was a version of , "Rebecca" that starred Jeremy Brett, in 1979. It might have been on PBS. I downloaded it last year, when it was here on YouTube.

  • what are the differences from the film and book?

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  • That old lady knew what was up. She was completely right! Weerrkk

  • That old

  • "So this is what's been happening during my illness... tennis lessons my foot!" Florence Bates did a terrific job as Mrs. VanHopper. My favorite part of the whole movie is 4:20 when she looks @ the girl and goes from smile to frown. The girl even considers killing Mrs. VanH in the book... love it....

  • They go straight from France to England in their private car, I didn't know The Channel Tunnel was constructed in 1940.

  • @schizophrantic Lol! Very true.

  • Wouldn't they love to have had a 1957 Ford Skyliner when it started raining! Too bad it's about 17 years too early!

  • Max is a boss.

  • Nice romantic proposal, lol. And yes, I've read the book multiple times. The poor girl.

  • Great touch at 5:28: lighting up a cigarette and asking that question. The dragon is revealed.

  • 3:33-3:50 What's with the walking in a circle thing. Seriously?? hysterical.

  • Does anyone know what type of flows max gives her when they get married?

  • Behind a palm tree? There's not much 'behind' on a palm tree.... erm. I'm guessing Max has never made violent love to a woman behind a palm tree before. And I think it should stay that way.

  • @hiatusinc when i read what you wrote i couldn't stop laughing.

  • @hiatusinc 'making love' back in that period didnt mean having sex. It meant to demonstrate one's passions violently. Think Rhett Butler grabbing Scarlett and kissing her. That kind of thing. For example, in Singin' in the Rain, when they are filming a scene and Lena Lamont has to talk into a microphone planted into a bush, she resists, saying "I can't make love to a bush!" Lena Lamont doesn't have a plant fetish; she means that she cant pretend to be violently in love with a plant.

  • @hiatusinc Decades ago, "to make love to" meant simply some romantic attention of the hugs-and-kisses variety. Around the 1950s, the phrase took on its current explicit meaning. So, not to worry ... Max is still an old-school gentleman.

  • You mean you want a secretary or something?

    hahahaha

  • @MissMortViolette

    lol, yes I know what it means, I just haven't ever heard anyone say it except for my parents...:) thnx anyway!!!

  • i don't expect Max to be like this, when i was reading i imagine him looking gloomy but here he seems so funny ha! but it's still appropriate.

  • Old bag.

  • "tell me, have you been doing anythign you shouldn't?" outch. pretty harsh.

  • Oops I'm sorry "du Maurier"

  • Judith Anderson always plays a wonderful creepy woman! :) I love her! she was just so talented and fantastic! Daphne DeMaurier is probably MY most favorite writer!

  • After a gorgeous man like that asked me to marry him, I wouldn't be afraid of Mrs. van Hopper. In fact I would rub it in her face...who does she think she is. Honestly, the way Max caresses her with his eyes and his candid, blunt way of talking is in his own way very caring. I love this movie and Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. Perfect chemistry!

  • I couldn't believe that bitch Mrs. Van Hopper asked her has she been doing things that she shouldn't!!! LOL!!  She was so jealous because she thought Max might get horny enough and lay her LMAO!!!!

  • @scorpioninblue LMAOOO! xD :')

  • Boy Little Miss doesn't have any idea of what's waiting for her at Manderlay!! That witch/bitch Mrs. Danvers is going to give her fever to the highest degree!!! LOL!!!

  • Tennis lessons my...foot? lol oh and how can such an unromantic proposal actually be romantic? :)

  • @MsAlex1717 " ____ my foot" is an expression. It's like saying "yeah, right" to whatever the other party has claimed.

  • wasnt too fast to ask someone to marry??

  • Asking to marry her from the bathroom with a hint of agitation in his voice. Very romantic...

  • @Jadama0 I totally agree.  I can imagine I would feel when he said that. My heart would drop to my belly! It's really romantic.......

  • did he say he wants to make violent love to her behind a palm tree

    oh my!

  • did he say he wants to make violent love to her behind a pantry

    oh my!

  • Mrs. Van Hopper's face when she sees the bride to be...priceless.

  • I rather thought you loved me.... :D

  • I love him! He's SO unromantic it's almost... romantic!

    @BBblue87, when I first read the book I laughed (and sighed) out loud! :D

  • He an older man and that's the way most of them act when dealing with a younger woman..more like a Father. In my opinion he's very sure of himself and the affect he has over her..but she also has an effect on him, she's just not aware of it..in time she'll learn..like I did to use her womanly powers :)

  • Violent love behind a palm tree?? Oh my! ;-)

  • "I'm asking you to marry me you little fool!" yeah 'cause thats romantic! haha

  • "... And I should be making violent love to you behind a palm tree."

  • Manderley is a huge estate! You'd need a passport to get to the other end!

  • tennis lessons my foot :))

  • i love mrs von hopper!!! she looks like a fucking slug,, and shes a cheeky bastard,, brilliant fun tho...

  • I LOVE MRS VAN HOPPER SHE PLAYS THE VULGAR AMERICAN TO A TEE , I LOVE THE SCENE WHERE SHE PUTS OUT HER CIGARETTE IN THE COLD CREAM , MMMM MRS DE WINTER GOOD BYE MY DEAR AND GOOD LUCK !!!! PRICELESS FROM AN AMERICAN ACROSS THE POND LOL

  • im asking you to marry me you bafoon!

  • @yurtubsuks bafoon....... haha

  • "I should be making violent love to You" is also a good one :)

  • the way he slaps her hand, he treats her like a puppy

  • tenis lessons my foot, lol

  • At 6:30 I like this scene with the wedding flowers. It was not in the book, but I think it was a nice addition.

  • That's what we call a whirlwind romance.

  • Splendid throughout.

  • bless you for that? no i love you too?!? this man seem so cold

  • "I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool" That is the most unromantic proposal in the history of mankind. Hey if it gets you a beautiful castle in the coast of England then to hell with romance :) I love this line lol

  • @ChildOfTheFlower And somehow the line is very romantic because it shows that Maxim loves her.

  • @ChildOfTheFlower like I said before he is rude to her

  • I love this scene from the movie- its one of my favorites :)

  • "And I should be making violent love to you, behind a pantry" 3:43

    :) :) :)

  • @reginaholic palm tree i think! slightly better than a pantry

  • @reginaholic "Palm tree" :)

  • 8:50 Crap! What have I gotten myself into!

  • Her little "Thank you Maxim" at 5:13 is adorable!

  • I gotta say, for all his charm and prettiness, I wanted to hurt him around 1:00 when he looked so mockingly at her distress at leaving!

  • After his line in the last part about not liking black satin and pearls I looked down the related videos column and at part 6/13 there's a still of her in a black dress and what looks like pearls!

  • I don't think I've ever heard a more unromantic, flippant marriage proposal! It was AWESOME!! :D

  • I LOVE Max's description of the ideal proposal - white frock, red rose, violin, and hot sex...go Max !

  • What ego, what an acid tongue, Mrs. Van Hopper.

  • This movie is ridiculous! A marriage between a child and a man!

  • I should be making violent love to you behind a palm tree LOL

  • mrs. van Hopper is a most horrid woman.

  • Olivier's so impossibly lovely. If they ever make a bio-pic of his life, I think Ewan McGregor should play him. Who's with me?

  • @FlippinBooks I AM WITH YOU. You are a GENIOUS! Ewan McGregor would be perfect! =D

  • I hate that Hopper lady, she's such a selfish, snippy cow.

  • "you mean you want a secratary or something?".. "i'm asking you to marry me you little fool" Brilliant!! Wow i love this film :o)

  • He doesn't look that much older than her lol

  • @ProjectCivil No I agree. The age difference should be a lot bigger. In fact Olivier was only 33 when playing this film, Maxim was supposed to be 42. Fontaine was 23 when playing here, not old, but her character would be younger. Although her age is never mentioned in the book, she is described almost as a child bride. I imagined her to be 17 or 18, but no older.

  • @MsSarjen In the book, I believe she says she is 21

  • @mayln163 Actually no... I recently read the book, and her age is never mentioned. At least not in number. If it is mentioned in any other way, it must be in an obscure way only the English would understand.

  • @mayln163 Second that

  • @ProjectCivil Laurence Olivier was only 10 yrs older the Joan Fontaine.

  • thats a proper little woman, Rebecca's lovely you can tell that she's young and been bullied

  • @GarydosDoritos ru talking bout the main gurl in the movie .. her name is not rebecca they nvr say her name throughout the movie, rebecca is Maxims dead wife.

  • His confident and overbearing attitude is not so much due to sexism as it is related to the class structure. Note how confident Mrs Van Hopper is.

  • how harsh "I'm asking you to marry me you little fool" I'm not like joan fontaine I would answer back in love with him or not he can't deal with me our personalities are the same we would clash

  • Does she remind anyone else of kristen stewart? She keeps blinking

  • @miriorodergo NOOOOOO!

  • I know. I love that line. Hes so forward but its brilliant. I wish there were more men like him in the world. This is one of my all time favourite films. I really need to to read the book.

  • im asking you to marry me you fool hahah

  • I love how Olivier drops some food on his lap while he's talking and licks his fingers. totally natural.

  • somehow this movie seems a a bit too modern for the way the book sounds... i actually thought she'd written it in the 19th century.

  • @merilille The book was written in 1938

  • @calamtykel i know! i found out afterwards. but somehow the language sounds so much older. :)

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  • In the book Max is a bit of a shit, caught up in his own self pity and guilt and treats the second Mrs De Winter very carelessly until things come to a head later in the book. Not a patch on Mr Rochester to be honest.

  • tennis lessons my foot! lol

  • Manderley! RICH much?

  • Mrs. van Hopperbitch should get run over by horses, cars, trucks, buses and her own daugther on a car. that will teach her!

  • HA HA HA HA HA.... violent love behind a palm tree...lmao

  • '..and I should be making violent love to you behind a palm tree' Excuse me?! :P

  • @WindInAWheatfield That was exactly my reaction. It's strange how most people think these classic movies are sexless and boring. Hell I reckon that these films are far sexier than anything I've seen recently.

  • @WindInAWheatfield

    Maxim de Winter has CLASS. hahahah

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  • thats so true LOL. she should keep away from him or get him a good shrink/therapist!lol

  • He could have thought about a better way to propose to her :D

  • Yes, "You little fool" isn't the most romantic of lines... and neither is the way he asks her to pour his coffee!!

  • @gra3finvonkrolock

    Just a reflection of men's overbearing confidence in those days.

  • Mrs. Van Hopper is such a b_tch!!

  • I grew up watching old movies...gosh, reminds me of good old days of being a kid...

  • This is much more romantic than the book. Joan Fontaine is exactly how I imagined Mrs. De Winter in the book, what great casting!

  • Well, are you talking about the actor or the character?

  • his character

  • At 15 i read ths book it made a mark read again at 25 ,got maried wth on word was a second wife never got manderly but life became misreble,today i m alone afterstaying wth him for12yrs got nothing but cancer

  • How sad for you, go tell someone else.

  • The dialogues between 3:53 and 5:26 are priceless. It reveals the typical Hitch-Wit I love about all his movies!!!

  • this is my favorite part of the movie--his bluntness is so raw & yet so romantic

  • @binbinky78 My thoughts exactly. This tormented man adores her. That proposal, in the light of her love for him, and discovering that he wanted to take care of her, would have turned me on completely. I love it. Thanks :D

  • "I'm asking you to marry me you little fool".....ahhh so romantic! I may sound corny, and a non-feminist, but I got all misty eyed when he said that <3 tee hee hee <3

  • @firestar415

    Don't apologize for being a non-feminist. Women since time immemorial were not feminists until the 20th century.

  • Sir Larry has such expressive and handsome eyebrows.

  • @bookishmuch lol that's so true!

  • I love it how the movie is so similar to the book. Hardly any scenes added or taken out - even the conversations are pretty much the same ^^.

    One of the few good movie adaptions of a timeless classic!

  • It probably one of the least romantic proposals ever, but if we were her, we would all definitley go weak at the knees!

  • I love the proposal....sappy proposals = yick.

  • max has true swag...ugh everybody in those days did!!!! XD

  • "I'll dress in here."

    OR you could not dress in there...

  • two lumps of sugar and some milk. same for my tea, now don't forget.

    God I love him! he's so blunt, but somehow romantic at the same time

  • "Mrs. Van Hopper" also played the society matron who came to "look over" (but more like... look down on) Lucy and Ethel 's homes in order to join an elite women's club on "I Love Lucy", remember? Think the huge loaf of bread coming out of the oven episode.

  • Excellent performance from the actress playing Mrs. Van Hopper. Amusing yet convincingly an intolerable woman

  • "I'm asking you to marry me you little fool". Classic! My favourite line from any book/film!

  • lol 2:23 shes so cruel...and then dips the ashes of her cigarettes on the floor gah

  • I never realized how beautiful and modern looking joan was. amazing.

  • @adrake1000 Yes -- she looks very different from when she was Jane Eyre. She's so versatile - she sort of "becomes" each character. She's adorable in this!

  • hubba hubba:)

  • Lol... hubba hubba? to whom?

  • manderley is gorgeous

  • silly joan fontaine. how dare you threaten to leave sir laurence for that old bag. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING. i would be with that man so fast!

  • My favorite movie of all time. I have a TV and VCR in my bedroom--I go to sleep with it every night. Script memorized. Why is it a great movie? Hitchcock's wonderful direction (not the story--it's just another romance drama by DuMaurier.)

    For a treat, watch the clip from 4:00 to 5:12 several times. Pretend you're the camera man. Watch how the camera moves from face to face and focuses on Mrs. Van Hopper then the new "Mrs. DeWinter." Cinematographic art never surpassed since.

  • @scooterbarf Not just another romance drama - the best of her romance dramas. My Cousin Rachel is all right, but Rebecca has a soul.

  • "You mean you want a secretary or something?"

    Lol, she's so sweet.

  • Jodor, no entiendo nada, pero da igual, la peli lo vale¡¡¡

  • i love how people used to speak in those days: fast, smoothly, flowingly, unlike today where every syllable is paused and words are stretched out, especially people from California: "Oh. My. God. Michael Jackson is dead. That is just So. Sad.

  • edit: "You'd better leave Mrs. Van Hopper, otherwise my foot may be found so far up your fat. . . ." That's what I love about these old movies. A lot of class.

  • whadya mean. she said something else

  • "I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool"... Oh, I thought that was funny.

  • Hmmm.....Mrs. de Winter. Good bye, my dear and good luck....

  • What a BIAAATCH!!!

  • then i suggest you don't watch it...

    ye of little faith...

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  • "im asking you to marry me you little fool"  hah wow.

  • what a beautiful house! that would be amazing to live in!

  • "I'm asking you to marry me you little fool!"

    Pffhahahahahhahahahahahahaaa!!­! XD

    It's too funny, what a proposal.

  • what a crappy proposal

  • agree