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The Wildest Version of ‘Rebecca’ Starred a Maniac Diana Rigg

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Hitchcock made the first attempt two years after the novel was published, and after that the floodgates opened. Will they ever get it right?

[Warning: Contains spoilers for the plot of Rebecca.]

Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca may be unfilmable. I know, it’s an odd thing to say about a novel that’s been adapted again and again for film (and once won the Oscar for best picture), for television, and for radio.

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