Undoubtedly one of the greatest film makers in the history of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock directed over 60 films in his lifetime, in a career spanning 50 years from the 1920s to the 1970s. The undisputed master of suspense, his films were always massive commercial hits and highly popular with the viewing public. None more so than this collection of films made by Hitchcock for British studios between the 1920s and 1930s, before he departed for Hollywood. This set contains ten of the East End director’s finest: The Pleasure Garden The Lodger, Downhill, The Man who Knew Too Much; The Thirty-Nine Steps; Secret Agent, Sabotage, Young & Innocent, The Lady Vanishes and Jamaica Inn, together in one set for the first time on DVD, RRP £59.99. Release Date: 25th February 2008.
Special features in this package include:
·Digitally restored versions of The Lodger, Sabotage, Young and Innocent and Jamaica Inn
·Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock – unseen for forty years, Mike Scott interviews Hitchcock about his life and career
·Aquarius - Alfred Hitchcock – taken from the 1972 Arts programme, this show includes candid photography of Hitchcock filming Frenzy in London
·Charles Barr on...a series of featurettes in which film historian Charles Barr introduces and analyses each of the ten films within the set
·On location reports for Sabotage and The Thirty-Nine Steps introduced by actor Robert Powell
·Original theatrical trailer for The Lady Vanishes
·Script PDFs for The Thirty-Nine Steps, The Lady Vanishes and Jamaica Inn
·Commemorative booklet written by Charles Barr
·Image Galleries
·8 – page booklet by film historian and writer of “English Hitchcock”, Charles Barr, presenting an overview of Hitchcock’s career
