Out from Hitchcock's shadow

From: The Boston Globe | Date: April 13, 1997| Author: Renee Graham, Globe Staff | Copyright information

Remaking any classic film would seem to challenging enough, let alone one which won the 1940 Academy Award for best picture, starred Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and Dame Judith Anderson, and was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

That was the task facing those involved in the Mobil Masterpiece Theatre's two-part adaptation of "Rebecca," which premieres Sunday night at 9, and concludes April 20 at 9 on Channel 2. Yet Charles Dance, who stars as aristocrat Maxim de Winter, the role origin...

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