Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection (Lifeboat Spellbound Notorious The Paradine Case ...

Buy This Item Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection (Lifeboat Spellbound Notorious The Paradine Case ...  List Price: $119.98  Available from Amazon  $59.99  on 12-7-2008     Features Actors: Cary Grant, Claude Rains Directors: Alfred Hitchcock Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC Language: English Number of discs: 8 Rating: Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) DVD Release Date: October 14, 2008 Run Time: 594 minutes Average Customer Review:   4 Reviews 5 star:  (4) 4 star:    (0) 3 star:    (0) 2 star:    (0) 1 star:    (0) See all 4 customer reviews...   (4 customer reviews) Reader Reviews With hours of all-new special features including audio commentaries, featurettes, screen tests, still galleries, vintage radio interviews, an AFI Tribute to Hitchcock and more, the DVD collection also includes a 32-page notebook with trivia, and production notes. Rebecca, Spellbound and Notorious will also be available as single discs. The following is the press release for the set: Lifeboat (1944) After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat, among them a glamorous journalist , a tough seaman, a nurse and an injured sailor. Their problems are further compounded when they pick up a ninth passenger - the German captain from the U-boat that torpedoed them. With its powerful interplay of suspense and emotion, this legendary classic is a microcosm of humanity, revealing the subtleties of man's strengths and frailties under extraordinary duress. Nominated for three Academy Awards, Alfred Hitchcock's World War II drama, is a remarkable story of human survival. BONUS FEATURES: Commentary by Film Professor Drew Casper The Making of Lifeboat Still Gallery Young and Innocent (1937) In this witty, suspense thriller a police chief's daughter helps a fugitive accused of murder prove his innocence. BONUS FEATURES: Commentary with film historians Stephen Rebello & Bill Krohn Isolated Music and Effects Track Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock Audio Interview: Francois Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock Restoration Comparision The Lodger (1927) One of the best silent films still in existence has no extra features? I know it was previously only available in the public domain, so believe me, I'm thankful, but nothing? Story synopsis: A serial killer is seeking blonde girls as his victims in London. A strange lodger moves into a rented room. The man goes out on foggy nights, keeps a photo of an unidentified blonde girl in his room, and flirts with the landlady's daughter, Daisy, who just happens to be blonde. Daisy's boyfriend is a police detective, and jealousy arouses his suspicion more than it might normally be stirred. Notorious (1946) Daughter of an accused World War II traitor, Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) is enlisted to entrap one of her father's colleagues in Brazil, Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains). Her American contact, secret agent T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant) is openly contemptuous of Alicia and instructs her to wed Sebastian. It is only after she is wed that Devlin lets himself admit that he's fallen in love with her. BONUS FEATURES: Commentary with film historian Rick Jewell Commentary with film historian Drew Casper Isolated Music and Effects Track The Ultimate Romance: The Making of Notorious Featurette Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster Featurette AFI Tribute to Hitchcock 1948 Radio Play Starring Joseph Cotton and Ingrid Bergman Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock Audio Interview: Francois Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock Restoration Comparision Still Gallery PLUS: A 4-Page Booklet Rebecca (1940) A young woman marries a fascinating older widower only to discover that she must live in the shadows of his first wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years before. BONUS FEATURES: Commentary by film historian/author Richard Schickel Screen tests Making of Rebecca Featurette The Gothic World of Daphne Du Maurier Featurette Original 1938 Radio Play Starring Orson Welles 1941 Radio Play Presented by Cecil B. DeMille 1950 Radio Play with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock Audio Interview: François Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock PLUS: A Four-page booklet Sabotoge (1936) A woman learns that her movie theater manager husband is actually a foreign agent when a device he has made kills her brother. Based on Joseph Conrad's novel, The Secret Agent. BONUS FEATURES: Commentary with film historian Leonard Leff Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock Restoration Comparision Spellbound (1945) When John Ballantine (Gregory Peck), the new director of a mental institution arrives on the job, the staff is concerned. He seems too young for the position and his answers to their questions are vague and detached. Dr. Peterson (Ingrid Bergman), while knowing he is an impostor with emotional issues, nevertheless falls in love with him. Turning to her mentor, Dr. Alex Brulov (Michael Checkhov) and the use of psychoanalysis she tries to get to the root of Ballantine's emotional problems. BONUS FEATURES: Commentary with film historians Thomas Schatz & Charles Ramirez Berg Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing Spellbound Featurette A Cinderella Story: Rhonda Fleming Featurette Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism and Salvador Dali Featurette 1948 Radio Play Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock Audio Interview: Film Historian Rudy Belhemer Interviews Composer Still Gallery PLUS: A Four-page booklet The Paradine Case (1947) Beautiful Anna Paradine (Alida Valli) is accused of poisoning her older wealthy husband. Her lawyer, the happily married Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck) takes the case but also lets his heart rule his head when he falls hard for his client. BONUS FEATURES Commentary with film historians Stephen Rebello & Bill Krohn Isolated Music and Effects Track 1949 Radio Play Starring Joseph Cotton Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock Restoration Comparision All of these films have either been in the public domain, gone out of print entirely, or been available only as expensive individual entries in the Criterion collection. It is good to have them all together at an affordable price and loaded with extras.  Comment | Permalink |  function showYesNoCommunityResponse(uId,result,value) { var msgLayer = getElement("thanks" + uId); if ( result == "SUCCESS" ) { msgLayer.innerHTML = "Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.com readers and reviewers. Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."; } else { showVoteErrorResponse(msgLayer,result,value); } } (Report this)

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