No film personified this better than Hitchcock’s 1940 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic romance novel Rebecca, which became the first and only one of his films to take home the ...

The movie was based on a book of the same name ... Maxim and Rebecca -- rife with conflict and infidelity on Rebecca's part. Hitchcock, of course, had to make deviations from the novel to fit ...

Hitchcock’s Rebecca did have its memorable, sexually-heightened moments, like the scene when Mrs Danvers paws her way through Rebecca’s lingerie collection with barely-disguised relish.