With grateful thanks to all those who have helped me prepare, correct, and fine-tune this list, and especially to Stanley Vickers and to Amy Strassburg.
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Jamaica Inn (1939) | Starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara | Mayflower Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 108 minutes B/W |
Rebecca (1940) | Starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontain | Alfred Hitchcock's Academy Award winning adaptation. | 125 minutes (Black & white) |
Frenchman's Creek (1944) | Starring Joan Fontaine, Basil Rathbone, and
Nigel Bruce | Paramount Directed by Mitchell Leisen | 110 minutes Colour |
Hungry Hill (1945) | | G.F.D./Sydney Box Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst | |
The Years Between (1947) | | G.F.D./Sydney Box Directed by Compton Bennett | |
My Cousin Rachel (1952) | Starring Richard Burton and Olivia DeHavilland | 20th Century Fox Directed by Henry Koster | 98 minutes B/W |
The Scapegoat (1959) | Starring Alec Guiness and Bette Davis | M.G.M. Directed by
Robert Hamer | B/W |
The Birds (1963) | Starring Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Tippi Hedren, and
Suzanne Pleschette | Universal Studios Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 119 minutes Colour |
Don't Look Now (1973) | Starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie | British Lion Directed by Nicolas Roeg | 110 minutes Colour |
Vanishing Cornwall (1971) | | Directed by Christian Browning | |
The Make Believe World of Daphne du Maurier (1977) | A rare interview of Dame Daphne at Kilmarth, by Cliff Michelmore | Banner Pictures Ltd, London | 38 minutes Colour |
Rebecca (1978) | Starring Jeremy Brett, Joanna David, and Anna Massey | BBC-TV series Directed by Simon Langston | 205 minutes Colour |
Jamaica Inn (1985) | Starring Patrick McGoohan, Jane Seymour, and John McEnery | Harlech TV Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark | 187 minutes Colour |
My Cousin Rachel (1982) | Starring Geraldine Chaplin and Christopher Guard | A BBC TV Production in association with Twentieth Century Fox | 177 minutes Colour |
The Breakthrough (aka The Lifeforce Experiment) | Starring Donald
Sutherland | TV Produced by World International
Network/Astral Film Enterprises/Screen Partners Directed by Piers Haggard | Colour |
The Birds II: Land's End (1994) | Starring Tippi Hedren, Brad Johnson
II, Chelsea Field, and James Naughton | TV Directed by Rick Rosenthal | 87 minutes Colour |
Rebecca (1996) | Starring Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, Geraldine James, Jean Anderson, Emilia Fox and Faye Dunaway | A Portman Production for Carlton UK Television in association with WGBH/Boston and Tele-Munchen | 180 minutes Colour |