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Alfred Hitchcock
A Legacy of Suspense
(1926-1962)

Contents: The Lodger (1926), Easy Virtue (1927), The Ring (1927), The Farmer’s Wife (1928), Champagne (1928), The Manxman (1929), Blackmail (1929), Juno and the Paycock (1929), The Skin Game (1931), Rich and Strange (1931), Number 17 (1932), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), Secret Agent (1936), Sabotage (1936), Young and Innocent (1937), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Jamaica Inn (1939), The Cheney Vase (1955) and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1962).

Mill Creek Entertainment
2011 DVD edition

Alfred Hitchcock: A Legacy of Suspense (1926-1962), black & white, 1737 minutes total, not rated, including The Lodger (1926), black & white, 90 minutes, not rated, Easy Virtue (1927), black & white, 80 minutes, not rated, The Ring (1927), black & white, 89 minutes, not rated, The Farmer’s Wife (1928), black & white, 130 minutes, not rated, Champagne (1928), black & white, 85 minutes, not rated, The Manxman (1929), black & white, 110 minutes, not rated, Blackmail (1929) [sound version], black & white, 84 minutes, not rated, Juno and the Paycock (1929), black & white, 94 minutes, not rated, The Skin Game (1931), black & white, 78 minutes, not rated, Rich and Strange (1931), black & white, 83 minutes, not rated, Number 17 (1932), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), black & white, 75 minutes, not rated, The 39 Steps (1935), black & white, 73 minutes, not rated, Secret Agent (1936), black & white, 86 minutes, not rated, Sabotage (1936), black & white, 76 minutes, not rated, Young and Innocent (1937), black & white, 82 minutes, not rated, The Lady Vanishes (1938), black & white, 95 minutes, not rated, Jamaica Inn (1939), black & white, 90 minutes, not rated, The Cheney Vase (1955), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1962), black & white, 26 minutes, not rated.

Mill Creek Entertainment, no catalog number, UPC 6-83904-52427-0.
Four single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo and mono sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; four-disc tin keepcase (rereleased in four paper envelopes contained in standard DVD keepcase); unknown suggested list price.
Release date: 1 November 2011.
Country of origin: USA

This budget DVD collection has all been transferred from 16mm reduction prints. Inexplicably, two episodes of the Hitchcock television series are counted as two of the 20 films in this low-budget collection.

The silent era films are presented with music soundtracks that have been compiled from preexisting recordings.

For our comparative reviews of the individual silent films in this collection, see our The Lodger on home video, Easy Virtue on home video, The Ring on home video, The Farmer’s Wife on home video, Champagne on home video, The Manxman on home video, Blackmail on home video and Juno and the Paycock on home video pages.

The supplementary material includes a ‘documentary’ The Story of Alfred Hitchock in 16:9 widescreen (22 minutes) and a collection of Hitchcock film trailers (39 minutes).

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