My Cousin Rachel (1952)
Directed by Henry Koster
A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.
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What critics compared My Cousin Rachel to
Rebecca and other influential melodramas, including Hitchcock’s Suspicion or David Lean’s The Passionate Friends, focus on the protagonist (her interiority particularly in the face of an obscure, oppressive husband); films like Vertigo, as well as other mystery or thriller texts such as du Maurier’s novel My Cousin Rachel focus on the interrogation of the woman, giving a space in which to critique the man’s paranoia and control.
In certain respects, the movie bears a relation to last year’s My Cousin Rachel , though its not quite so robustly stylised as Roger Michell’s film.