Title: Hideous!
Product review: Hideous version of fabulous classic novel by Daphne DuMarier. No one can ever top the David O. Selznick l940 version, which won Best Picture by the Academy Awards in l940. And with good reason. The movie version is ravishing, the cast fantastic, Mrs. de Hopper looked perfect, the franz Waxman musical score a classic, likewise the photography, lighting, costumes, etc. Why can't they just leave the great movie classics alone! One planned re-make that I would definitely have paid to see was in the late sixties, when Liz Taylor and Richard Burton were going to star, with Mike Nichols (who directed them in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) with Bette Davis set to play Mrs. Danvers. Wow! That would have been something interesting. But Faye Dunaway in anything ruins it. Ignore this yuccky version. Grab the Selznick version (directed by Alfred Hitchcock) where it begins with: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again..."
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