My comments to follow after work…<\/p>\n
A DEFINITIVE ANTHOLOGY FROM
THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE<\/p>\n
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
PREMIERE COLLECTION<\/p>\n
Brilliantly Restored And Remastered, The Eight-Disc Set Includes All-New Commentaries, Featurettes, Screen Tests, Vintage Radio Interviews,
An AFI Tribute To The Director And More<\/p>\n
Arriving On DVD October 14 From MGM Home Entertainment<\/p>\n
LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 One of the most influential filmmakers in all of cinema and voted the greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly, MGM Home Entertainment presents an extensive compilation featuring the works of a true Hollywood legend when the Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection arrives on DVD October 14. Nominated collectively for a total of 23 Academy Awards, these films are beautifully restored and remastered and feature titles out of print on DVD for several years. The eight-disc set is highlighted by Hitchcock\u2019s Oscar winner for Best Picture Rebecca<\/span>, starring Joan Fontaine (Suspicion<\/span>) and Laurence Olivier (Hamlet<\/span>) in a dark tale of love and obsession. Silver screen siren Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca)<\/span> makes an appearance in two Hitchcock classics; first alongside Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird<\/span>) in Spellbound,<\/span> as a young doctor in pursuit of the truth and next alongside Cary Grant (North by Northwest<\/span>) in Notorious<\/span>, a tale of crime, passion and espionage. Rounding out the collection is Peck once again in The Paradine Case<\/span> as a lawyer defending a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her husband, the spy thriller Sabotage<\/span>, the romantic murder-mystery drama Young and Innocent<\/span>, the suspenseful high seas thriller Lifeboat<\/span> and one of Hitchcock\u2019s earliest films, the terrifying whodunit The Lodger<\/span> featuring an all-new anniversary score.<\/p>\n 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, production notes and more about the legendary director. Available for a suggested retail price of $119.98 U.S. \/ $159.98 Canada, Rebecca<\/span>, Spellbound<\/span> and Notorious<\/span> will also be available as singe discs for a suggested retail price of $19.98. Prebook is September 17.<\/p>\n Rebecca <\/span>Synopsis Special features: The Lodger <\/span>Synopsis Special features: The Paradine Case<\/span> Synopsis Special features: Spellbound<\/span> Synopsis Special features: Notorious<\/span> Synopsis Special features: Young and Innocent<\/span> Synopsis Special features: Sabotage<\/span> Synopsis Special features: Lifeboat <\/span>Synopsis Special features: Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection My comments to follow after work… A DEFINITIVE ANTHOLOGY FROMTHE MASTER OF SUSPENSE ALFRED HITCHCOCKPREMIERE COLLECTION Brilliantly Restored And Remastered, The Eight-Disc Set Includes All-New Commentaries, Featurettes, Screen Tests, Vintage Radio Interviews,An AFI Tribute To The Director And More Arriving On DVD October 14 From MGM Home Entertainment LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 One of the … Continue reading Another Hitchcock Collection…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1861],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Commentary by film historian\/author Richard Schickel
\u00b7 Screen tests
\u00b7 Making of Rebecca<\/span> Featurette
\u00b7 The Gothic World of Daphne Du Maurier Featurette
\u00b7 Original 1938 Radio Play Starring Orson Welles
\u00b7 1941 Radio Play Presented by Cecil B. DeMille
\u00b7 1950 Radio Play with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier
\u00b7 Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
\u00b7 Audio Interview: Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock
\u00b7 Four-page booklet<\/p>\n
During a rash of gruesome murders by a serial killer known only as \u201cThe Avenger,\u201d a mysterious stranger arrives in London and rents a room with the Bunting family. Intriguing and reclusive, the Buntings\u2019 new guest soon earns the interest of their beautiful daughter. But when the lodger\u2019s strange habits and odd hours start to coincide with The Avenger\u2019s killings, the Buntings suspect they may have let a murderer into their home\u2026and given him the key to destroying their lives!<\/p>\n
\u00b7 1999 Score by Ashley Irwin presented in 5.1 Dolby Surround
\u00b7 1997 Score by Paul Zaza presented in Mono
\u00b7 Commentary with film historian Patrick McGilligan
\u00b7 The Sound of Silence: The Making of The Lodger<\/span> Featurette
\u00b7 Hitchcock 101 Featurette
\u00b7 1940 Radio Play Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
\u00b7 Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
\u00b7 Audio Interview: Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock
\u00b7 Restoration Comparison<\/p>\n
Beautiful Anna Paradine (Alida Valli) is accused of poisoning her older wealthy husband. Her barrister, 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.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Commentary with film historians Stephen Rebello & Bill Krohn
\u00b7 Isolated Music and Effects Track
\u00b7 1949 Radio Play Starring Joseph Cotton
\u00b7 Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
\u00b7 Restoration Comparision
\u00b7 Still Galleries<\/p>\n
When John Ballantine (Gregory Peck), the new director of a mental asylum 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 imposter 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\u2019s emotional problems.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Commentary with film historians Thomas Schatz & Charles Ramirez Berg
\u00b7 Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing Spellbound<\/span> Featurette
\u00b7 A Cinderella Story: Rhonda Fleming Featurette
\u00b7 Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism and Salvador Dali Featurette
\u00b7 1948 Radio Play Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
\u00b7 Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
\u00b7 Audio Interview: Film Historian Rudy Belhemer Interviews Composer Mikl\u00f3s R\u00f3zsa
\u00b7 Still Gallery
\u00b7 4-Page Booklet<\/p>\n
Daughter of an accused World War II traitor, Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) is enlisted to entrap one of her father\u2019s colleagues in Brazil, Alexander Sebastian (Claude Raines). 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\u2019s fallen in love with her.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Commentary with film historian Rick Jewell
\u00b7 Commentary with film historian Drew Casper
\u00b7 Isolated Music and Effects Track
\u00b7 The Ultimate Romance: The Making of Notorious<\/span> Featurette
\u00b7 Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster Featurette
\u00b7 AFI Tribute to Hitchcock
\u00b7 1948 Radio Play Starring Joseph Cotton and Ingrid Bergman
\u00b7 Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
\u00b7 Audio Interview: Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock
\u00b7 Restoration Comparision
\u00b7 Still Gallery
\u00b7 4-Page Booklet<\/p>\n
In this witty, suspense thriller a police chief\u2019s daughter helps a fugitive accused of murder prove his innocence.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Commentary with film historians Stephen Rebello & Bill Krohn
\u00b7 Isolated Music and Effects Track
\u00b7 Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
\u00b7 Audio Interview: Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock
\u00b7 Restoration Comparision
\u00b7 Still Gallery<\/p>\n
A woman learns that her movie theater manager husband is actually a foreign agent when a bomb he has made kills her brother. Based on Joseph Conrad\u2019s novel, The Secret Agent.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Commentary with film historian Leonard Leff
\u00b7 Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
\u00b7 Restoration Comparision
\u00b7 Still Gallery<\/p>\n
Nominated for three Academy Awards\u00ae, Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s World War II drama is a remarkable story of human survival. After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat. Their problems are further compounded when they pick up a ninth passenger \u2013 the Nazi captain from the U-boat that torpedoed them. With powerful suspense and emotion, this legendary classic reveals the strengths and frailties of individuals under extraordinary duress.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Commentary by University of Southern California School of Cinema & Television Hitchcock professor and film critic, Drew Casper
\u00b7 \u201cThe Making of Lifeboat\u201d featurette
\u00b7 The original theatrical trailer
\u00b7 Still gallery featuring photographs from the set<\/p>\n
DVD Price: $119.98 U.S. \/ $159.98 Canada
Order Due Date: September 17, 2008
Street Date: October 14, 2008
Catalog Number: M110985
Total Run Time: 594 minutes
Screen Format: 1.33:1 Full Screen
Audio Features: English Mono
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Closed Captioned: Yes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"