1940 - Rebecca: "Please promise me never to wear black satin or pearls...or to be 36 years old"

1940 Best Picture Winner

Premiered March 27, 1940 in LA

Budget: $1.28 million

Gross: N/A

We watched this movie and we received a very pleasant surprise! Alfred Hitchcock introduced Americans to a kind of film that kept you on the edge of your seat. This movie had many twists and turns and the ending shocked us both. If you changed the production values and kept everything else, this could have been a movie that was made in 2012. Hitchcock was a talent that was decades ahead of his time. This movie is truly a hidden gem.

Joel
Favorite: I liked the fact that it was not a stuffy, dull portrayal of life of life in the past. It was a just a movie that was designed to entertain, not make a political statement.
Least Favorite: After watching a movie in color, it was tough to go back to black and white.

Callie
Favorite: I enjoyed the suspense and thrill throughout the movie. I loved how Alfred Hitchcock used small gestures from his characters to create an eerie scene.
Least Favorite: The product seemed to go down a little bit. There were times when they were driving when the scene around them seemed to speed up and slow down without the appearance of the driver changing scene.