Product Details

• Actors: Alfred Hitchcock Collection
• Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
• Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: BCI / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
• DVD Release Date: January 11, 2005
• Run Time: 863 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000CC88G
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #68,911 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Young and InnocentA film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all her young boyfriends. The next day writer Robert Tisdall (who happens to be one such boyfriend) discovers her body and is arrested. But owing to a mix up at the courthouse he escapes and goes on the run with a police constable s daughter Erica determined to prove his innocence!BlackmailAlice White who while having dinner in a fancy English nightspot with her husband-to-be Scotland Yard detective Frank Webber (John Longden) begins to flirt with an artist (Cyril Richard). Seated at the next table. The artist invites her up to see his studio. And she goes but balks when the artist her to pose in the nude when the request becomes a demand Alice stabs him to death.Juno & the PaycockSara Allgood is brilliant as family matriarch Juno Boyle who must content with her bibulous braggadocio husband Captain Jack Boyle (Edward Chapman).know as the Paycock because he always struts around like he owns the world. As Captain Jack carouses with his drinking buddy Joxer Daly (Sydney Morgan) Juno tries to keep her family together a task that proves harder with each passing day especially when daughter Mary (Kathleen O Regan) is impregnated by her irresponsible boyfriend.Rich & StrangeJoan Barry and Henry Kendall play a young married couple who suddenly come into an inheritance. Bored with their working class existence hero and heroine embark upon a world cruise. Broke and miserable Barry and Kendall head home on a shabby cargo boat only to find themselves in the middle of a shipwreck. The couple is rescued by a Chinese junk where the solemn crew members dine on their per cat.The RingCarl Brisson plays "Round One" a cocky young boxer who matriculates from sideshow bouts to the big time. Round one s marriage to Lillian Hall-Davis goes sour when she throws him over for the camp. During the climatic big fight. Hall-Davis realizes that she s still in love with Round one when she is the main witness.

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great value, quality is the same as Laserlight DVD's, September 2, 2004

By	Kay Emm Gee - See all my reviews

Audio and video quality of these movies is exactly the same as the Laserlight issues. Unfortunately most of these movies have not been re-issued on DVD by big name companies such as Kino, Criterion, Universal, or Image. In the mid 1980's Criterion released Laserdisc versions of "Blackmail", "Sabotage", "Secret Agent", and "Young and Innocent", however Criterion has no plans to release these titles on DVD. Audio and video quality is not bad, fairly standard for 1920's and 1930's nitrate films. If you are a Hitchcock enthusiast and are interested in buying these early films buy this box set, it is very economical and the quality is exactly the same as Laserlight's issues.

As an added bonus two episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" are included, you get a total of 12 presentations in this box set! A great value!

Criterion has released a re-mastered version of, "The Lady Vanishes" on DVD. I was shocked to see that the audio and video quality of the Criterion version is almost exactly the same as the version on this box set by the Bci Eclipse Company.

56 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Passable quality, spotty movies, December 12, 2003

By	RMurray847 "afilmcritic.com" (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Here, in one neat bundle, are presented 10 very early Hitchcock films, from classics such as the early version of THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH and THE LADY VANISHES (one of my favorites) to more obscure films such as YOUNG & INNOCENT and JUNO & THE PAYCOCK (????).

I haven't watched them all yet, but here is what you get. Five two-sided DVD's, each side with one movie. The movies themselves are available in 2.0 sound or 5.1 "virtual" surround. There are "scene selections", which involve only a few chapters per movie. And that's about it. The quality of the transfer is not first rate, by any stretch. You would probably be able to get better quality on one of the Criterion editions, but you'd pay quite a bit more. If you plan to watch over and over...go that route. If this is a curiousity for you, then these DVDs will fit the bill nicely and economically.

I won't go into the movies themselves. These are early, pre-Hollywood Hitchcock films, and even the weakest of the bunch have many great Hitch moments. I feel like for the price, you simply can't beat it (hey, less than $2 a movie!!). And any serious film student ought to have THE LADY VANISHES on their list!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Saturday Afternoon Suspense, August 18, 2007

By	JJGemini "Dude in a monkey suit" (NYC) - See all my reviews

If you're looking to see Hitchcock in all his glory, absolutely go and find the Criterion Collection versions of your favourite Hitchcock films. However, if you don't know which ones are your favourite, yet, take a perusal through these movies. The films haven't been cleaned up and the audio is decent, so you can certainly go through the movies to see some older Hitchcock films, which are obvious seedlings of what was to come. "The Lady Vanishes" is worth the price of admission.

And yes! There really are ten movies included here. What are they?

(1927) LODGER - silent
(1927) THE RING - silent
(1929) BLACKMAIL - silent
(1930) JUNO & THE PAYCOCK
(1931) RICH & STRANGE
(1934) THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
(1936) SABOTAGE
(1936) SECRET AGENT
(1937) YOUNG & INNOCENT
(1938) THE LADY VANISHES

His other 9 movies from pre-Hollywood days (before 1940's "Rebecca") are available in the "The Essential Alfred Hitchcock Collection" (ASIN: B0009WPLVM).