(All films are in colour unless stated otherwise. * Indicates currently available as new DVDs.)
Jamaica Inn | 1939 | * |
Black and white film for cinema, starring Maureen O'Hara and Charles Laughton | Director - Alfred Hitchcock |
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Jamaica Inn | 1983 | * |
Three part serial for television (ITV Studios Ltd), starring Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan and Trevor Eve. | Director - Lawrence Gordon Clark |
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Jamaica Inn | 2014 | * |
Three part serial for television (BBC), starring Jessica Brown Findlay, Matthew McNulty, Sean Harris and Joanne Whalley | Director - Philippa Lowthorpe |
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Rebecca | 1940 | * |
Black and white film for cinema, starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier | Director - Alfred Hitchcock |
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Rebecca | 1962 | |
Black and white film for American television, first shown 8 April 1962, starring James Mason, Joan Hackett, Lloyd Bochner, Murray Matheson and Nina Foch. Adapted for television by Ellen M. Violett. | Director - Boris Segal |
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Rebecca | 1979 | |
Four part serial for television (BBC), starring Joanna David, Jeremy Brett and Anna Massey | Director - Simon Langton |
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Rebecca | 1997 | * |
Two part mini-series for television (Carlton Television), starring Emilia Fox, Charles Dance and Diana Rigg | Director - Jim O'Brien |
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Frenchman's Creek | 1944 | * |
Film for cinema, starring Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Cordova, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce | Director - Mitchell Leisen |
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Frenchman's Creek | 1998 | * |
Film for television (Carlton Television), starring Tara Fitzgerald and Anthony Delon | Director - Ferdinand Fairfax |
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The Years Between | 1946 | * |
Black and white film for cinema, starring Valerie Hobson, Michael Redgrave and Flora Robson | Director - Compton Burnett |
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Hungry Hill | 1947 | |
Black and white film for cinema, starring Margaret Lockwood, Denis Price and Cecil Parker. Released on VHS cassette by Carlton Television in 2000 | Director - Brian Desmond Hurst |
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My Cousin Rachel | 1952 | * |
Black and white film for cinema, starring Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton | Director - Henry Koster |
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My Cousin Rachel | 1983 | |
Four part serial for television (BBC), starring Geraldine Chaplin and Christopher Guard. Released on VHS cassette by the BBC in 1990 | Director - Brian Farnham |
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My Cousin Rachel | 2017 | |
Film for cinema, starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin | Director - Roger Michell |
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Kiss Me Again Stranger | 1953 | |
Thirty minute black and white film for American television, first shown on 14 April 1953, starring Maria Riva and Michael Waring | Director - Robert Mulligan |
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Fraction of a Second | 1958 | |
Sixty minute black and white film for American television, based on Daphne du Maurier’s short story Split Second, first shown on 21st April 1958 as part of the anthology series Suspicion and starring Bette Davis as the lead character Mrs Ellis. | Director - John Brahm |
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The Scapegoat | 1959 | |
Black and white film for cinema, starring Alec Guinness, Nichole Maurey and Bette Davis | Director - Robert Harmer |
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The Scapegoat | 2012 | * |
Film for television (ITV), starring Eileen Atkins and Matthew Rhys | Director - Charles Sturridge |
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The Birds | 1963 | * |
Film for cinema, starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette and Jessica Tandy | Director - Alfred Hitchcock |
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Don't Look Now | 1973 | * |
Film for cinema, starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland | Director - Nicholas Roeg |
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The Breakthrough | 1975 | |
Film for television, shown on BBC2 on 8 January 1975, starring Simon Ward and Brewster Mason. This was part of The Mind Beyond series produced by Irene Shubik | Director - Graham Evans |
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The Lifeforce Experiment | 1994 | |
Film for American television, first shown on 16 April 1994, starring Mimi Kuzyk and Donald Sutherland. Made in Canada and based on Daphne du Maurier's short story The Breakthrough. This film is also called The Breakthrough and Dead Men Talk | Director - Piers Haggard |
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The Birds II: Land's End | 1994 | |
Film for American television, first shown on 19 March 1994, starring Brad Johnson, Chelsea Field and Tippi Hedren | Director - Rick Rosenthal (as Alan Smithee) |
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Over the years many of Daphne du Maurier’s novels and short stories have been made into talking books, first as audio cassettes and later as CDs. However currently only an abridged version of Rebecca, read by Emma Fielding and published by Naxos Audiobooks, is readily available.