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| | Video Codec: MPEG-4 AVC, VC-1 Resolution: 1080p Attribute ratio: ane.85:1, ane.78:1, 1.66:1, 1.36:1, 1.35:i, 1.33:one Original aspect ratio: one.37:1, 1.66:1, 1.85:1 Audio Saboteur English: DTS-Hard disk Primary Audio two.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit) Shadow of a Doubt English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-scrap) 13 more than titles (more) Saboteur English: DTS-Hd Chief Audio two.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit) Shadow of a Doubt English: DTS-Hard disk drive Principal Sound 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit) Rope English: DTS-HD Master Audio two.0 (48kHz, 24-bit) Rear Window English: DTS-HD Chief Sound two.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-flake) The Trouble with Harry English: DTS-Hd Main Sound 2.0 (48kHz, 24-chip) The Man Who Knew Too Much English language: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit) Vertigo English: DTS-Hd Master Audio 5.ane (48kHz, 24-fleck) North by Northwest English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Psycho English language: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-chip) The Birds English: DTS-Hd Primary Audio two.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit) Marnie English: DTS-Hard disk drive Master Audio Mono Torn Pall English: DTS-HD Master Sound Mono Topaz English language: DTS-Hard disk drive Master Sound 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit) Frenzy English: DTS-Hard disk Chief Audio Mono Family Plot English: DTS-Hd Master Audio Mono (less) Subtitles Saboteur English language SDH, French, Spanish English SDH, Spanish thirteen more titles Saboteur English language SDH, French, Spanish Shadow of a Doubt English SDH, Spanish Rope English SDH, Spanish Rear Window English SDH, French, Spanish The Problem with Harry English SDH, French, Spanish The Man Who Knew Besides Much English SDH, French, Spanish Vertigo English SDH, French, Spanish North by Northwest English SDH, French, High german SDH, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish Psycho English SDH, French, Spanish The Birds English SDH, French, Spanish Marnie English SDH, Spanish Torn Drapery English SDH, Spanish Topaz English SDH, French, Spanish Frenzy English language SDH, Spanish Family Plot English language SDH, Spanish (less) Discs Blu-ray Disc 15-disc gear up (fifteen BD-50) BD-Live Mobile features Packaging Playback | | Price Listing price: New from: $124.99 Used from: $44.99 (Salvage 59%) Buy new on Amazon  Price Rating
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Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection
(1942-1976)
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For more about Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Drove and the Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Drove Blu-ray release, encounter Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Drove Blu-ray Review published by Kenneth Dark-brown on October thirty, 2012 where this Blu-ray release scored four.0 out of 5.
Manager: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: John Michael Hayes
, Ernest Lehman, Samuel A. Taylor, Jay Presson Allen, Anthony Shaffer, Brian Moore
Starring: Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Bruce Dern, John Forsythe, Tippi Hedren, Edith Evanson
Producers: Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Lloyd, Jack H. Skirball, Sidney Bernstein, William Colina
This Blu-ray bundle includes the following titles, meet individual titles for specs and details:
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Blu-ray Review
A solid only imperfect collection that spans more than than 30 years of the Chief of Suspense'due south career...
Reviewed by Kenneth Chocolate-brown, October 30, 2012
A human being confronts his accuser atop the Statue of Liberty, where i fake motility volition spell death. A wolf in sheep's wearable allows the brute lurking within to conduct its teeth. A housemaster slowly, oh and so slowly, pieces together the heinous crime perpetrated past 2 one-time students. A adult female searches for clues in a suspected murderer'south apartment just as the man returns dwelling. Iv people work to continue the demise of a swain smalltown resident a hole-and-corner from a local deputy. An assassin's gun slides out from behind a drapery equally an ordinary human being races to thwart his plot. An plane buzzes then roars by equally a human dives for encompass. The hiss of a shower masks the approach of a madman with a knife in his hand. Countless birds gather on a jungle gym as a woman smokes a cigarette nearby. A husband barges into his new wife's bedroom and has his way with her as she retreats into a near-catatonic country. A physicist discovers killing a homo isn't equally easy as information technology might seem, wrestling with his victim right up until the violent finish. A purple dress billows out beneath a dying woman like spilled blood. A serial killer retrieves his pin from a adult female's grasp, one dead finger at a time. A fake psychic tries to squirm out of a thief's vice-like grip as he pushes a syringe closer and closer. Be it drama, horror or one-act, psychological stunner, monster movie or international spy thriller, is it any mystery that filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was known as the Master of Suspense? Is information technology whatsoever wonder his movies still hold hypnotic sway over filmfans all these years later?
The fifteen-disc Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection box set up features fifteen unlike flavors of suspense, merely ii of which -- North past Northwest from Warner Bros. and Psycho from Universal -- accept already been made available on Blu-ray. For the purposes of this review, I'll be highlighting the video and audio quality of each presentation, discussing the prepare's packaging, and outlining the special features included. More thorough and detailed reviews of each disc can exist constitute by visiting each title's private listing:
- Disc 1: Saboteur (1942)
Disc 2: Shadow of a Uncertainty (1943)
Disc 3: Rope (1948)
Disc 4: Rear Window (1954)
Disc five: The Problem with Harry (1955)
Disc vi: The Homo Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Disc 7: Vertigo (1958)
Disc 8: N past Northwest (1959)
Disc ix: Psycho (1960)
Disc 10: The Birds (1963)
Disc 11: Marnie (1964)
Disc 12: Torn Mantle (1966)
Disc xiii: Topaz (1969)
Disc fourteen: Frenzy (1972)
Disc 15: Family unit Plot (1976)
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Drove Blu-ray, Sound Quality
Click on any of the post-obit links or a detailed analysis of each film'southward lossless sound rail:
- Disc 1: Saboteur - iv.v/5
English language DTS-Hard disk drive Primary Sound 2.0 Mono
English language SDH, French, Castilian subtitles
Disc 2: Shadow of a Doubtfulness - 3.5/5
- English DTS-HD Chief Audio ii.0 Mono, French DTS 2.0 Mono
English language SDH, Spanish subtitles
Disc 3: Rope - 3.5/5
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono, French DTS two.0 Mono
English SDH, Castilian subtitles
Disc 4: Rear Window - 4.5/5
- English language DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono, French DTS two.0 Mono, Spanish DTS 2.0 Mono
English SDH, French, Castilian subtitles
Disc 5: The Problem with Harry - 4/v
- English DTS-Hard disk Main Audio 2.0 Mono, French DTS 2.0 Mono
English SDH, Spanish subtitles
Disc half dozen: The Man Who Knew Also Much - 4.five/v
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono, French DTS 2.0 Mono
English SDH, Spanish subtitles
Disc seven: Vertigo - iv.5/five
- English DTS-HD Master Sound 5.ane, English language DTS two.0 Mono, French DTS two.0 Mono, Spanish DTS two.0 Mono
English SDH, French, Spanish subtitles
Disc 8: North by Northwest - 4.5/5 *
- English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish Dolby Digital Mono
English language SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, German language SDH, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish subtitles
Disc nine: Psycho - 4.five/5 **
- English DTS-HD Master Audio five.1, French DTS 2.0
English SDH, French, Castilian subtitles
Disc 10: The Birds - 4.5/5
- English language DTS-Hd Principal Sound 2.0 Mono, French DTS 2.0 Mono
English SDH, Castilian subtitles
Disc xi: Marnie - 4/5
- English language DTS-Hard disk drive Chief Sound two.0 Mono, French DTS 2.0 Mono, Spanish DTS 2.0 Mono
English SDH, French, Castilian subtitles
Disc 12: Torn Pall - 4.5/five
- English DTS-Hard disk Master Audio 2.0 Mono, French DTS two.0 Mono
English SDH, Spanish subtitles
Disc 13: Topaz - iv/v
- English language DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
English SDH, French, Spanish subtitles
Disc 14: Frenzy - 3/5
- English DTS-Hard disk Master Audio ii.0 Mono, French DTS 2.0 Mono
English SDH, Spanish subtitles
Disc xv: Family unit Plot - 4/5
- English DTS-Hard disk Master Sound 2.0 Mono, French DTS 2.0 Mono
English SDH, Spanish subtitles
* Reviewed by Casey Broadwater, October 2009
** Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, October 2010
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Blu-ray, Special Features and Extras
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection arrives only in fourth dimension for Halloween (and, more chiefly, the upcoming holiday flavour) in a hitting box set (measuring 7" h x 5�" due west x two" d), complete with a heavy cardboard sleeve that houses a tome-like DigiPak (with a sparse, glossy folio devoted to each film) and a copy of "The Principal of Suspense," a 60-page booklet. The discs themselves slide into their corresponding DigiPak pages -- which unfortunately requires filmfans to grab the border of a disc to remove information technology from its individual nook -- only I didn't encounter any major problems. The biggest issue with the case is its structure, which is flimsier than its Classics Monsters cousin. The biggest issue with the 15-disc set, though, is its relative lack of special features. While the usual suspects go the total supplemental treatment -- Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds -- the other films in The Masterpiece Colleciton do not.
Disc one: Saboteur- Saboteur: A Closer Await (SD, 35 minutes): Thespian Norman Lloyd and associate art director Robert Boyle discuss the motion picture and share memories from the production. It's Lloyd who takes ownership of the documentary after a few minutes, though, offering a firsthand overview, analysis and scene-by-scene, performance-by-performance autopsy of Saboteur. Hitchcock's daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell likewise appears, just just briefly.
- Storyboards (SD, 4 minutes): Original storyboards for the Statue of Liberty sequence.
- Alfred Hitchcock's Sketches (SD, i infinitesimal): A small selection of drawings and storyboards from the director.
- Product Photographs (SD, viii minutes): Movie posters, vintage ads and production photos.
- Theatrical Trailer (SD, 2 minutes)
- Beyond Incertitude: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Picture show (SD, 35 minutes): Hitchcock'southward daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, associate fine art managing director Robert Boyle, and actors Teresa Wright (Charlie Newton) and Hume Cronyn (Herb Hawkins) reminisce nearly the moving picture, while filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich chimes in with observations and insight into the characters, themes, story and unique place in Hitchcock's canon.
- Production Drawings (SD, 6 minutes): A series of original drawings from Boyle's sketchbook.
- Production Photographs (SD, nine minutes): Picture posters, vintage ads and production photos.
- Theatrical Trailer (SD, ane minute)
- Rope Unleashed (SD, 32 minutes): Collaborator/treatment writer Hume Cronyn, screenwriter Arthur Laurents and histrion Farley Granger (Phillip Morgan) dig into Hitchcock's adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's stage play, the homosexuality inherent in the film (dubbed "It" by the studio execs), the performances, Hitch's continuous long takes, the obstacles the tricky takes created, and much more. Simply the documentary is more than notable for Laurents' criticism of the final cutting. The screenwriter grumbles about decisions made by Hitchcock and the cast, complains most several performances, gripes about changes fabricated to his script, and explains how his version of the film would have played out differently.
- Production Photographs (SD, 8 minutes): Pic posters, vintage ads and production photos.
- Theatrical Trailer (SD, ii minutes)
- Sound Commentary: Author John Farwell ("Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Picture") provides a somewhat dry only undeniably detailed analysis of Rear Window, without so much as missing a shot or scene.
- Rear Window Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic (SD, 55 minutes): From brusk story to screenplay to Hitchcock masterpiece, track the evolution, casting, production, performances, style and, somewhen, the restoration of Rear Window.
- Masters of Cinema (SD, 34 minutes): A lengthy "Masters of Movie theater" interview with Hitchcock that, despite its historic period, is one of the must-come across extras in the 15-disc Masterpiece Drove set.
- A Chat with Screenwriter John Michael Hayes (SD, 13 minutes): Hayes covers a lot of footing, touching on his beginning meeting with Hitchcock, his first days on the task, his take on the director, his impressions of Stewart and Kelly, and more.
- Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of the Main (SD, 25 minutes): An in-depth, career-spanning await at Hitchcock's filmmaking prowess, desires every bit a director, contributions to movie house, and influence on generations of filmmakers that followed. "Pure Movie theater" doesn't focus on Rear Window, but it's no less welcome.
- Breaking Barriers: The Audio of Hitchcock (SD, 24 minutes): Hitchcock had a penchant for unforgettable visuals, but his meticulous mastery of sound was only as crucial to the impact, suspense, dread and mood of his films.
- Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts (SD, sixteen minutes): Excerpts from filmmaker Francois Truffaut's 1962 interview sessions with Hitchcock (for his book, the aptly titled "Hitchcock") are set to a montage of clips and stills from the moving-picture show.
- Production Photographs (SD, 3 minutes): Motion-picture show posters, vintage ads and production photos.
- Theatrical and Re-Release Trailers (Hard disk, 9 minutes)
- The Trouble with Harry Isn't Over (SD, 32 minutes): "Frankly I don't care what you do with Harry as long equally you don't bring him back to life!" Hitchcock'south girl Pat Hitchcock O'Connell returns for some other documentary, this time with associate producer Herbert Coleman, screenwriter John Michael Hayes and actor John Forsythe (Sam Marlowe), to extensive ends. Topics covered include Paramount'southward initial resistance in financing the picture, the director's left plough into black one-act, the crucial role of his wife in his career, the casting of Shirley MacLaine and her co-stars (among them Harry'south corpse), the movie's mid-production weather troubles and subsequent challenges, the incorporation of music, Hitch'due south collaboration with Bernard Herrmann and more.
- Production Photographs (SD, half-dozen minutes): Movie posters, vintage ads and product photos.
- Theatrical Trailer (SD, 2 minutes)
- The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much (SD, 34 minutes): "The commencement film was done by an amateur and the remake by a professional." Later on a lengthy overview of Hitchcock'due south reluctance and eventual determination to remake his ain 1934 moving-picture show of the same proper noun, Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, associate producer Herbert Coleman, screenwriter John Michael Hayes, production designer Henry Bumstead and other notable participants leave no rock unturned, laying out Man's plotting and script, Jimmy Stewart's friendship with Hitchcock, his casting in the movie, his castmates' performances (chief among them Doris Solar day) and but nearly everything else a fan of Htich'southward thriller might want to know.
- Production Photographs (SD, 4 minutes): Picture show posters, vintage ads and product photos.
- Theatrical Trailer (SD, 8 minutes)
- Audio Commentary: But 1 characteristic commentary is available: a solo track with filmmaker William Friedkin. The second previously available commentary with associate producer Herbert Coleman and restoration team leads Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz is nowhere to exist plant.
- Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece (SD, 29 minutes): From AMC comes this Harrison Engle documentary, introduced by Vertigo restorer Robert A. Harris and restoration producer James C. Katz. Among those who sit down to talk well-nigh the moving-picture show are Harris and Katz (of course), filmmaker Martin Scorsese, Hitch's daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, associate producer Herbert Coleman, screenwriter Samuel Taylor and actresses Kim Novak (Madeleine/Judy) and Barbara Bel Geddes (Midge).
- Partners in Law-breaking: Hitchcock'due south Collaborations (SD, 55 minutes): Four featurettes focus on Hitch's collaborations: "Saul Bass: Title Gnaw" (opening credits), "Edith Head: Dressing the Primary's Movies" (costumes), "Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock'due south Maestro" (music) and "Alma: The Master's Muse" (Hitchcock'due south partnership with his married woman).
- Hitchcock and Truffaut Interview Excerpts (SD, 14 minutes): Excerpts from filmmaker Francois Truffaut'southward 1962 interview sessions with Hitchcock (for his book, the aptly titled "Hitchcock") are set to a montage of clips and stills from the pic.
- 100 Years of Universal: The Lew Wasserman Era (HD, 9 minutes): Super agent turned visionary Lew Wasserman put ability (and opportunity) in his actors' pockets and changed the business, all before purchasing the Paramount library, bringing Hitchcock to tv and, ultimately, acquiring a major studio. That studio? Universal.
- Strange Censorship Ending (SD, 2 minutes): An extended ending tacked on for the moving picture's overseas release.
- The Vertigo Athenaeum (SD, 69 minutes): Art manager Henry Bumstead'due south sprawling production portfolio drawings.
- Theatrical and Restoration Trailers (SD, iv minutes)
- Extras reviewed by Casey Broadwater, October 2009
- Audio Commentary: Lehman offers up a serenity, subdued, but ultimately enlightening commentary that owners of the film's DVD release will immediately recognize. Aside from the occasionally lagging stride, this is a cracking track filled with stories about working with Hitch and making movies the onetime-school Hollywood way.
- The Primary's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style (SD, 58 minutes): Like an introductory course on Hitchcock'southward directorial trademarks, this first-class documentary is broken into sections that comprehend the primary's editing techniques, ideas about suspense, theory of the Macguffin, his apply of music, and his love of glamour and Hollywood blonds. Several directors, including Martin Scorcese, William Friedkin, and Guillermo Del Toro dissect and pay tribute to Hitchcock's oftentimes-imitated way.
- Cary Grant: A Course Apart (SD, 87 minutes): This PBS documentary gives a thorough and unflinching look at the inimitable British-born actor, covering his unhappy babyhood in Bristol, his journey to America in 1920, his rise from vaudevillian to Hollywood leading man, and his oft unhappy family life, marked past failed marriages and experimentation with LSD. Features interviews with ex-wives, friends, and colleagues, too equally footage from many of the role player's at present-archetype films.
- North by Northwest: 1 for the Ages (SD, 25 minutes): Directors Curtis Hanson, Francis Lawrence, Guillermo Del Toro, William Friedkin, and writer Christopher McQuerrie examine North by Northwest from get-go to finish, giving their practiced analysis of the picture show's grapheme development and Hitchcock'due south visual acumen.
- Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North past Northwest (SD, 39 minutes): Eva Marie Saint hosts this retrospective look at the making of North past Northwest, guiding usa through the shooting schedule with the help of screenwriter Ernest Lehman, actor Martin Landau, and Hitchcock's daughter Pat. At that place are a lot of keen stories hither, including the revelations that the entrance to the UN building was secretly, and illegally, filmed from a VistaVision camera hidden in a delivery truck and that Cary Grant, ever the businessman, charged xv cents for autographs.
- Music-Only Rails: Cull this option to isolate Bernard Herrmann's swish score, via a Dolby Digital 5.ane track.
- Stills Gallery (SD, half dozen minutes): Movie posters, vintage ads and production photos.
- Theatrical Trailers and Tv set Spot (SD, 7 minutes)
- Extras reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, October 2010
- Audio Commentary: A very proficient and extremely informative audio commentary by Author Stephen Rebello ("Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho").
- The Making of Psycho (SD, 94 minutes): An incredibly excellent feature length documentary on virtually every aspect of the picture show's production.
- Psycho Sound (HD, x minutes): An interesting look at the new technologies employed to isolate detached elements of a mono sound stem to create a 5.1 feel.
- In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy (SD, 26 minutes): Offers some interesting comparisons of Hitchcock sequences with those in other films, and includes a wealth of interviews with directors like Martin Scorsese and John Carpenter who have been influenced by Hitch.
- Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts (SD, 15 minutes): An interesting Psycho-centric snippet from Truffaut and Hitchcock'due south 1962 interview sessions.
- Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho (SD, viii minutes): This is somewhat misleadingly titled, equally this is actually a "pressbook on film" for exhibitors, describing the "no admittance afterward the film starts" policy that made Psycho's original roadshow exhibition such a awareness.
- The Shower Scene: With and Without Music (SD, 3 minutes): Offers the iconic sequence with and without Herrmann's riveting score.
- The Shower Scene: Storyboards by Saul Bass (SD, iv minutes): An interesting compendium of Bass sketches which helped Hitchcock to plan his setups for the sequence.
- The Psycho Archives (SD, 8 minutes): A collection of publicity stills.
- Posters and Psycho Ads (SD, iii minutes): Posters and ads, including some international versions.
- Behind-the-Scenes Photographs (SD, 8 minutes)
- Product and Publicity Photographs (SD, 9 minutes)
- Lobby Cards (SD, 2 minutes)
- Theatrical and Re-Release Trailers (SD, eight minutes)
- The Birds: Hitchcock's Monster Movie (Hard disk drive, xiv minutes): The merely Blu-ray exclusive in The Masterpiece Collection amounts to a terrific but somewhat brusk analysis of The Birds' place in horror movie history, Hitchcock'south attraction to the project, the mystery behind the avian monsters' attack, the birds as a manifestation of disharmony and disruption, and the picture show's ambiguous ending.
- Deleted Scene and Original Ending (SD, 8 minutes): A deleted scene comprised of script pages and production photographs followed by an alternate ending, comprised of script pages and sketches.
- All Nigh The Birds (SD, 80 minutes): Rather than the retrospective analysis of the newly produced "Hitchcock'southward Monster Movie," this fantabulous DVD-era documentary pulls back the curtain on the production, from its inspiration to its development, scripting, story elements, characters, performances, special effects and more.
- Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts (SD, 14 minutes): Excerpts from filmmaker Francois Truffaut's 1962 interview sessions with Hitchcock (for his book, the aptly titled "Hitchcock") are prepare to a montage of clips and stills from the flick.
- 100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics (HD, ix minutes): Rather than a Birds-axial restoration featurette, this is a general catalog-broad catch-all. It's appreciated, but not nearly as revealing equally it could be.
- 100 Years of Universal: The Lot (Hard disk, 9 minutes): The Universal backlot in all its celebrity.
- The Birds is Coming (SD, 1 infinitesimal): A Universal international newsreel highlighting pigeon races with special guest Alfred Hitchcock and extra Tippi Hedren.
- Suspense Story: National Press Club Hears Hitchcock (SD, 2 minutes): Some other Universal international newsreel.
- Storyboards (SD, 24 minutes): A lengthy storyboard/still comparing reel.
- Tippi Hedren'south Screen Test (SD, 10 minutes): Hedren's screen test, with aural instructions from Hitchcock.
- Production Photographs (SD, 14 minutes): Movie posters, vintage ads, production photos and more.
- Theatrical Trailer (SD, 5 minutes)
- The Trouble with Marnie (SD, 58 minutes): "One might call Marnie a sexual practice mystery. That is, if i used such words." Hitch'southward daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Donnell, Marnie contributors and treatment writers Joseph Stefano (Psycho) and Evan Hunter (The Birds), screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, unit production director Hilton A. Green, product designer Robert Boyle, author Robin Forest ("Hitchcock'southward Films Revisited"), filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, and actresses Tippi Hedren (Marnie Edgar), Diane Bakery (Lil Mainwaring) and Louise Latham (Bernice Edgar) dive into Marnie, from its accommodation and script development to its Hunter-disputed rape scene, psychological unravelings, flashbacks, violence, expressionist devices, and its reception and legacy.
- The Marnie Archives (SD, 9 minutes): Picture posters, vintage ads and product photos.
- Theatrical Trailer (SD, 5 minutes)
- Torn Curtain Ascension (SD, 32 minutes): "Ordinary and sluggish." That was but i of many criticisms leveled at Torn Curtain upon its original release, and "Rising" doesn't endeavor to sidestep such harsh reactions. Instead, it tackles the film'south reception head on, detailing its troubled development, rushed shoot, soundstage and location challenges, Hitchcock's resistance and uncertainty in casting Julie Andrews, his clashes with Paul Newman, filmmaking techniques that defied current trends, and Hitch and composer Bernard Herrmann's falling out. And yet the documentary retains a respect and appreciation for the moving picture and delivers a compelling argument for Curtain's value, fifty-fifty in the wake of classics like Vertigo and Psycho.
- Scenes Scored by Bernard Herrmann (SD, fourteen minutes): View scenes with music cues and arrangements from Bernard Herrmann's original score (among them the murder sequence), composed before he was replaced by John Addison.
- Product Photographs (SD, 22 minutes): Movie posters, vintage ads, production photos and more.
- Theatrical Trailer (SD, iii minutes)
- Topaz: An Appreciation (SD, 29 minutes): "In some ways I experience it'due south ungrateful of us to criticize Hitchcock at all." Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin all just apologizes for Topaz and Hitchcock's lesser '60s films, peeling back the complications and complaints surrounding the film's lack of familiar stars (minus John Forsythe), its departures from the director's traditional interests and style, the difficulties of adapting a best-selling novel, and other things Maltin attributes to the film'due south failure with audiences. It'south an informative docu-pology, mind yous, information technology just spends more than time defending Topaz than dissecting it.
- Alternate Endings (SD, 6 minutes): 3 alternate endings are included: "The Duel," "The Aerodrome" and "The Suicide."
- Storyboards: The Mendozas (SD, 12 minutes): A storyboards-to-stills comparison reel.
- Production Photographs (SD, 6 minutes): Moving-picture show posters, vintage ads and product photos.
- Theatrical Trailer (SD, iii minutes)
- The Story of Frenzy (SD, 45 minutes): Laurent Bouzereau explores Hitchcock's 1972 return to form, likewise as its darker, more explicit and more tearing themes and imagery. Along the way, interviews with Pat Hitchcock O'Donnell, screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, and actors Jon Finch (Richard Blaney), Barry Foster (Robert Rusk) and Anna Massey (Babs Milligan) tell the tale of the moving-picture show'south production and reception.
- Production Photographs (SD, 17 minutes): Film posters, vintage ads, production photos and more.
- Theatrical Trailer (SD, 3 minutes)
- Plotting Family Plot (SD, 48 minutes): Pat Hitchcock O'Donnell, assistant director Howard K. Kazanjian (who doggedly pursued the manager before landing the job), Universal caput of production Hilton Green, set designer Henry Bumstead, composer John Williams and actors Bruce Dern, Karen Black and William Devane discuss Hitchcock'due south terminal movie, its dialogue and innuendo, comedy, casting and on-set anecdotes, as well equally Hitch and his wife's failing health, his realization that Family Plot would be his final flick and his retirement.
- Storyboards: The Chase Scene (SD, 9 minutes): A series of storyboards.
- Production Photographs (SD, 15 minutes): Movie posters, vintage ads and production photos.
- Theatrical Trailers (SD, 3 minutes)
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Drove Blu-ray, Overall Score and Recommendation
The 15-film Alfred Hitchcock: Masterpiece Collection isn't the exist-all, finish-all Hitchcock classics compendium fans might be hoping for. Its lossless audio tracks are fantabulous all effectually, but the quality of its video presentations vary (in some cases quite dramatically) and the only actress new to the set is a xv-minute Birds retrospective. The Masterpiece Collection is by no means a dud, but it does have some drawbacks regardless of how depression or high its price point comes to rest. Of grade, it also has some big draws. With the holiday season rapidly approaching, the Alfred Hitchcock box set is the sort of high-dollar souvenir item certain to make a fan or completist jump for joy. Will it do the aforementioned for the casual collector shelling out their own cash to add it to their own drove? I incertitude information technology. This will be a bittersweet box set for nearly.
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Packaging Discussions
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• New Warner Great britain Steelbooks in 2013 (Official Thread) | 330 | Jun 19, 2014 | |
• Psycho: 50th Anniversary Special Edition SteelBook (Official Thread) | 325 | Mar 04, 2019 | |
• Universal Iconic Art Steelbooks - November iv, 2014 (Official Thread) | 325 | Jul 02, 2019 | |
• Psycho (1960) Steelbook (Zavvi Exclusive) (Limited... (Official Thread) | 38 | Oct 13, 2017 | |
• The Birds Steelbook (Slipcase) (Zavvi Exclusive) (... (Official Thread) | 34 | Oct 18, 2016 | |
• Vertigo (WCL Sectional Limited Edition) (Official Thread) | 23 | Jan 08, 2018 | |
• Psycho (WCL Exclusive Limited Edition) (Official Thread) | 13 | May 15, 2018 | |
• Psycho (1960) Steelbook (Amazon IT) (Italy) (Official Thread) | x | Mar 16, 2017 | |
• Rear Window (WCL Exclusive Express Edition) (Official Thread) | ix | Jun xviii, 2017 | |
• The Birds (WCL Exclusive Limited Edition) (Official Thread) | 7 | Jun 18, 2017 | |
• Vertigo 4K Steelbook (Zavvi Exclusive) (UK) (Official Thread) | 1 | Aug 08, 2021 | |
• The Homo Who Knew Too Much (WCL Sectional Express E... (Official Thread) | 0 | Nov xv, 2017 |
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