My 150 Favorite Films - #13

Rebecca (1940)

Based on the celebrated novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca was Alfred Hitchcock's first Hollywood-made film, and the only one that won the Best Picture Oscar. With a blue-chip, pedigreed cast, including Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, and Judith Anderson, Rebecca stays true to it's source material, with only minor changes. It's a film worth watching again and again, for the intelligence of the performances in addition to the riveting mystery at the center of it all.