在法國南部海濱的一座懸崖上，一個古怪、憂傷，精神恍惚但是很有魅力的男人來回徘徊著。一聲驚叫打斷了他的沉思，來到附近畫畫的一個年輕女子懷疑這位先生有自殺的傾向而上前喝止。這個魯莽的舉動倒讓兩人很快結識，甚至很快成為一對親密的戀人。
英文名：Rebecca
類型：懸念 驚悚 愛情 劇情
時間：1940
導演：阿爾弗雷德•希區柯克
編劇：Robert E. Sherwood
Philip MacDonald
演員：勞倫斯•奧利維爾Laurence Olivier
瓊•芳登Joan Fontaine
Billy Bevan
Alphonse Martell
阿爾弗雷德•希區柯克
地區：美國，語言：英語，字幕：英文
劇情簡介：
在法國南部海濱的一座懸崖上，一個古怪、憂傷，精神恍惚但是很有魅力的男人來回徘徊著。一聲驚叫打斷了他的沉思，來到附近畫畫的一個年輕女子懷疑這位先生有自殺的傾向而上前喝止。這個魯莽的舉動倒讓兩人很快結識，甚至很快成為一對親密的戀人。這位英俊瀟灑的貴族富豪叫梅西•文德斯，幾年前的喪妻令他沉痛不已，而那個年輕女子只是一個貼身使女。他們開始在外面約會，但每次年輕的姑娘問起德文特久負盛名的曼德利莊園時，文德斯先生總是顯得憂鬱而沉默。
文德斯先生逐漸愛上了這個天真、善良的姑娘，就在她要隨主人離去的時候，他向她正式求婚。很快，梅西•文德斯帶著他新婚的妻子回到了自己在英國的莊園。
莊園裏嚴厲的管家丹弗斯夫人明顯流露出對新夫人的厭惡和對前任文德斯夫人麗蓓嘉的崇拜，麗蓓嘉雖然死了，卻又仿佛無處不在，影響著莊園裏的一切，到處都是帶有裏貝卡名字縮寫的物品。新的女主人嘗試著熟悉新環境，卻一次次碰壁，所有這些痛苦經歷似乎都在給她一個暗示：她的丈夫將永遠——而且只愛麗蓓嘉。她的猜疑、梅西的沉默，在這對新婚夫婦之間劃下了越來越深的裂痕。
但是過去發生的事並沒有這麼簡單，逝去的麗蓓嘉仿佛隱藏著很多的秘密，而遠遠不是表面上看起來那麼聖潔、美麗。終於，為了挽回新婚妻子的心，梅西承認是他殺死了麗蓓嘉，並把麗蓓嘉沉屍大海。
就在這時，麗蓓嘉的屍體被人發現，她的死因重新引起了人們的關注。經過調查，最終還是真相大白：麗蓓嘉是自殺死的，卻把一切佈置得像是被梅西親手殺死的樣子來報復他。
最後，丹弗斯夫人在絕望中點起大火，與曼德利莊園一起化為灰燼……
The film begins with a female voiceover: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again”, to images of a ruined country manor.
The heroine is a very young (and nameless) woman (Joan Fontaine), a paid companion to the wealthy but obnoxious Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates). The heroine meets the aristocratic widower Maximilian (Maxim) de Winter (Laurence Olivier) in Monte Carlo. They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married.
Maxim takes his new bride to Manderley, his country house in Cornwall, England. The housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson), is domineering and cold, and is obsessed with the great beauty, intelligence and sophistication of the first Mrs. de Winterthe eponymous Rebeccaand preserves her former bedroom as a shrine. Rebecca’s sleazy cousin Jack Favell (George Sanders) appears at the house when Maxim is away.
The new Mrs. de Winter is intimidated by her responsibilities and begins to doubt her relationship with her husband. The continuous reminders of Rebecca overwhelm her; she believes that Maxim is still deeply in love with Rebecca. She also discovers that her husband sometimes becomes very angry at her for apparently innocent actions.
Trying to be the perfect wife, the young Mrs. de Winter convinces Maxim to hold a costume party as he did with Rebecca. The heroine tries to plan her own costume, but Mrs. Danvers suggests she copy the beautiful outfit in the portrait of Caroline de Winter, an ancestor. At the party, when the costume is revealed to Maxim he is appalled; Rebecca wore the same outfit at their ball a year ago, shortly before she died. The heroine confronts Danvers, who tells her she can never take Rebecca’s place, and almost manages to convince her to jump to her death. A sudden commotion reveals that a ship is sinking.
The heroine rushes outside, where she hears that during the rescue a sunken boat has been found with Rebecca’s body in it. Maxim admits that he had earlier misidentified another body as Rebecca’s, in order to conceal the truth. At the very beginning of their marriage Rebecca had told Maxim she intended to continue the promiscuous and perverse sex life she had led before the marriage. He hated her but they agreed to an arrangement: she would act as the perfect wife and hostess in public, and he would ignore Rebecca’s privately conducted affairs. Rebecca grew careless and complacent in her dealings, including an ongoing affair with her cousin Jack Favell. One night, Rebecca informed Maxim that she was pregnant with Favell’s child. During the ensuing heated argument she fell, hit her head and died. Maxim took the body out in a boat which he then scuttled.
Shedding the remnants of her girlish innocence, Maxim’s wife coaches her husband on how to conceal the mode of Rebecca’s death from the authorities. In the police investigation, deliberate damage to the boat points to suicide. Favell shows Maxim a note from Rebecca which seems to indicate she was not suicidal. Favell then tries to blackmail Maxim, but Maxim tells the police. Maxim is now under suspicion of murder. The investigation then focuses on Rebecca’s secret visit to a London doctor (Leo G. Carroll), which Favell assumes was due to her illicit pregnancy. However, the coroner’s interview with the doctor reveals that Rebecca was mistaken in believing herself pregnant; instead she had a late-stage cancer.
The doctor’s evidence persuades the coroner to render a finding of suicide. Only Frank Crawley (Maxim’s best friend and manager of the estate), Maxim, and his wife will know the full story: that Rebecca lied to Maxim about being pregnant with another man’s child in order to goad him into killing her, an indirect means of suicide. As Maxim returns home from London to Manderley, he finds the manor on fire, set alight by the deranged Mrs. Danvers. The second Mrs. de Winter and the staff manage to escape the blaze, but Danvers dies in the flames.
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