I've read Daphne DuMaurier's novel "Rebecca" several times plus both sequels by Sally Beauman and Susan Hill which are also very gripping.
I've watched the Hitchcock adaptation from 1940 multiple times, but never cared for Joan Fontaine's playing the second Mrs. de Winter.
This 1997 adaptation has it all: the perfect locations (Hitchcock couldn't film his "Rebecca" in Cornwall as WW II was going on), great actors and a wonderful score by Christopher Gunning. His score for the Sophie Marceau movie "Firelight" very much resembles his "Rebecca" soundtrack.
Diana Rigg impersonated Mrs. Danvers not quite as demonic as Judith Anderson did in 1940. Charles Dance was good as usual, but my favorite actress in this TV adaptation from 1997 is the young woman who played the second Mrs. de Winter.
This 1997 adaptation has it all: the perfect locations (Hitchcock couldn't film his "Rebecca" in Cornwall as WW II was going on), great actors and a wonderful score by Christopher Gunning. His score for the Sophie Marceau movie "Firelight" very much resembles his "Rebecca" soundtrack.
Diana Rigg impersonated Mrs. Danvers not quite as demonic as Judith Anderson did in 1940. Charles Dance was good as usual, but my favorite actress in this TV adaptation from 1997 is the young woman who played the second Mrs. de Winter.