Alfred Hitchcock: The Essentials Collection [5 Discs]

Alfred Hitchcock

Overview

"This deluxe box set brings into a single collection the five most acclaimed and legendary features of the ""master of suspense,"" Sir Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963)."

Product Details

Release Date:	10/04/2011
UPC:	0025192084546
Original Release:	2011
Rating:	PG
Source:	Universal Studios
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	10:10:00
Sales rank:	827

Special Features

Original documentaries on Rear Window and Vertigo; Commentaries on Vertigo and North by Northwest; Production photographs ; Original theatrical trailers

Editorial Reviews

Who can forget Cary Grant running through a cornfield, menaced from above by a low-flying crop duster? Or Grant and Eva Marie Saint clinging to the stone faces of Mount Rushmore in an attempt to elude a nefarious spy played with suave perfection by the great James Mason? Two of the most visually inventive action scenes ever filmed, they are among the many pleasures to found in North by Northwest one of Hitchcock's very best films. Grant is Roger Thornhill, a New York adman who sets off a chain of exquisitely convoluted and sinister events when he is mistaken for an undercover agent; Saint brings a soulfulness to her role as the elegant, mysterious blonde who wins his heart. Here the master of suspense blends his signature ingredients -- edge-of-the-seat thrills, comedy, and sophisticated romance -- into a sparkling cinematic cocktail that has been much imitated but never matched.