My Cousin Rachel

Ben Mankiewicz introduces My Cousin Rachel, 1952.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces My Cousin Rachel, 1952.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces My Cousin Rachel, 1952.

First meeting of Richard Burton as Philip Ashley and his cousin-by-marriage, Olivia de Havilland, the title character, the widow he suspects murdered her husband, the cousin who raised him, then left him his entire estate at Cornwall, in My Cousin Rachel, 1952, from the Daphne Du Maurier novel.

John Sutton as Ambrose speaks, then Richard Burton narrates, recalling his own childhood, Henry Koster directing, in Burton’s Hollywood debut, with elaborate plotting from the Daphne Du Maruier novel, opening My Cousin Rachel, 1952, co-starring Olivia de Havilland.

More of Richard Burton’s narration, as Philip Ashley, raised on the Cornwall coast, by his cousin Ambrose, who’s married a strange woman in Italy, with trusted neighbors the Kendalls (Ronald Squire, Audrey Dalton), receiving shocking news, in My Cousin Rachel, 1952.