Rebecca (1940)

Rebecca is a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl. Boy and girl get married. Girl is haunted by the metaphorical ghost of her husband's dead wife. Boy gets put under suspicion of murder. And so on. The great Alfred Hitchcock may never have won a competitive Oscar himself, but he did direct a Best Picture winner! This week, Matt and Steve discuss just when a movie is supposed to start - and why so few seem to ever do so, the greatest of both Olivier and Fontaine and how much of this film belongs to Hitch, and how much to his producer, David O. Selznick. Gothic, mysterious and tense, Rebecca starts off our five weeks of Octoberfestival! Write us your thoughts at [email protected] and find us on social media @oscarwatchpod; subscribe and review on iTunes! Next week...we see dead people.