Rebecca 1979 NEW VERSION (1-4 Complete) Better Quality 2024 Jeremy Brett
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A young woman marries widower Maxim de Winter and moves to his estate, Manderley. She faces psychological torment from Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper obsessed with Maxim's late wife, Rebecca. Despite Rebecca's revered reputation, Maxim reveals their marriage was a sham; Rebecca was manipulative and cruel. He confesses to killing her after she taunted him. An inquiry ruled Rebecca's death as suicide, revealing she had terminal cancer. As Maxim and the narrator return to Manderley, they find it engulfed in flames, symbolizing the end of Rebecca's haunting influence and leaving them to rebuild their lives together.
Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel by the English author Daphne du Maurier. The novel depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower before discovering that both he and his household are haunted by the memory of his late first wife, the title character.
A bestseller which has never gone out of print, Rebecca sold 2.8 million copies between its publication in 1938 and 1965. It has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen, including a 1939 play by du Maurier herself, the film Rebecca (1940), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the 2020 remake directed by Ben Wheatley for Netflix. The story has been adapted as a musical.
The novel is remembered especially for the character Mrs Danvers, the West Country estate Manderley, and its opening line: "Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
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A new/different version of this miniseries starring Jeremy Brett While working as the companion to a wealthy American woman on holiday in Monte Carlo, the unnamed companion, a naïve young woman in her early 20s, becomes acquainted with a rich Englishman, Maxim de Winter, a 42-year-old widower.
After a fortnight of courtship, she agrees to marry him and accompanies him to his mansion in Cornwall, the beautiful estate Manderley, after the wedding and honeymoon.
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Mrs Danvers, the sinister housekeeper, was profoundly devoted to the first Mrs de Winter, Rebecca, who died in a sailing accident about a year before Maxim and the second Mrs de Winter met.
She attempts to undermine the narrator psychologically, subtly suggesting that she will never attain the beauty, urbanity, and charm her predecessor possessed.
When the narrator makes small requests, Mrs Danvers and the other staff describe how Rebecca ran Manderley when she was alive. Cowed by Mrs Danvers' imposing manner and the other members of West Country society's unwavering reverence for Rebecca, the narrator becomes isolated.
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The narrator is soon convinced that Maxim regrets his impetuous decision to marry her and that he is still deeply in love with the seemingly perfect Rebecca.
Manderley hosts a costume ball at the pressing of neighbours, a custom Rebecca had instated. On the suggestion of Mrs Danvers, the narrator wears a replica of the dress shown in a portrait of one of the house's former inhabitants, ignorant of the fact that Rebecca had worn the same costume to much acclaim shortly before her death.
When the narrator enters the hall, and Maxim sees the dress, he angrily orders her to change.
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Shortly after the ball, Mrs Danvers reveals her contempt for the narrator, believing she is trying to replace Rebecca, and shows her deep, unhealthy obsession with the dead woman.
Mrs Danvers tries to get the narrator to commit suicide by encouraging her to jump out of the window. However, she is interrupted before the narrator does so by the disturbance caused by a nearby shipwreck.
A diver investigating the wrecked ship's hull condition also discovers the remains of Rebecca's sailing boat, with her decomposed body still on board, despite Maxim having identified another body that had washed ashore two months after Rebecca's death.
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This discovery causes Maxim to confess to the narrator that his marriage to Rebecca was a sham. Rebecca, Maxim reveals, was a cruel and selfish woman who took many lovers while manipulating everyone around her into believing her to be the perfect wife and a paragon of virtue.
On the night of her death, she taunted Maxim with the prospect of having another man's child, which she would raise under the pretence that it was Maxim's, and he would be unable to prove otherwise.
In a rage, Maxim shot and killed her. He then disposed of her body by placing it in her boat and sinking it at sea. The narrator is relieved that Maxim has always loved her and never Rebecca.
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Rebecca's boat is raised and discovered to have been deliberately sunk. An inquest brings a verdict of suicide. However, Rebecca's first cousin and lover, Jack Favell, attempts to blackmail Maxim, claiming she could not have intended suicide based on a note she sent to him the night she died.
It is revealed that Rebecca had had an appointment with a doctor in London shortly before her death, which the narrator suspects was to confirm a pregnancy. When the doctor is found, he reveals that Rebecca had cancer and would have died within a few months.
Furthermore, due to the malformation of her uterus, she could never have been pregnant.
Maxim assumes that Rebecca, knowing that she would die, manipulated him into killing her quickly. Mrs Danvers had said after the inquiry that Rebecca feared nothing except dying a lingering death.
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On hearing that Mrs Danvers has abruptly disappeared from Manderley, Maxim feels a great foreboding and insists on driving through the night to return home. Before they see the house, it is clear from a glow on the horizon and wind-borne ashes that it is ablaze.
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A young English girl in Monte Carlo falls in love with a rude, handsome stranger who proposes to her and rescues her from the drudgery of being a hired companion. But when he takes her to his country estate, Manderley, all her confidence disappears, especially in the face of Maxim's dour and mysterious housekeeper, Mrs Danvers, and as odd rumours reach her, the second Mrs. de Winter decides to find out everything she can about her predecessor, Rebecca.
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