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Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection (Lifeboat / Young and Innocent / The Lodger / Notorious / Rebecca / Sabotoge / Spellbound / The Paradine Case) (1940)
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| Starring: | Nova Pilbeam, Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Ivor Novello, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Gregory Peck, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Alida Valli |
| Director: | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Genre: | Drama, Foreign, Crime, Mystery/Thriller, Silent, England, British Mystery/Thriller, Crime-British |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Studio: | MGM (Video & DVD) |
| Length: | 594 minutes |
| Release Date: | October 14, 2008 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language), French(Subtitled), Spanish(Subtitled), English(Subtitled) |
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SYNOPSIS: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’s Oscar winner for Best Picture Rebecca, starring Joan Fontaine (Suspicion) and Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) in a dark tale of love and obsession. Silver screen siren Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca) makes an appearance in two Hitchcock classics; first alongside Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird) in Spellbound, as a young doctor in pursuit of the truth and next alongside Cary Grant (North by Northwest) in Notorious, a tale of crime, passion and espionage. Rounding out the collection is Peck once again in The Paradine Case as a lawyer defending a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her husband, the spy thriller Sabotage, the romantic murder-mystery drama Young and Innocent, the suspenseful high seas thriller Lifeboat and one of Hitchcock’s earliest films, the terrifying whodunit The Lodger featuring an all-new anniversary score.
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.
Lifeboat (1944)
After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat, among them a glamorous journalist , a tough seaman, a nurse and an injured sailor. Their problems are further compounded when they pick up a ninth passenger - the Nazi captain from the U-boat that torpedoed them. With its powerful interplay of suspense and emotion, this legendary classic is a microcosm of humanity, revealing the subtleties of man's strengths and frailties under extraordinary duress
Nominated for three Academy Awards, Alfred Hitchcock's World War II drama, is a remarkable story of human survival.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Commentary by Film Professor Drew Casper
- The Making of Lifeboat
- Still Gallery
Young and Innocent (1937)
In this witty, suspense thriller a police chief’s daughter helps a fugitive accused of murder prove his innocence.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Commentary with film historians Stephen Rebello & Bill Krohn
- Isolated Music and Effects Track
- Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
- Audio Interview: Francois Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock
- Restoration Comparision
The Lodger (1927)
Notorious (1946)
Daughter of an accused World War II traitor, Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) is enlisted to entrap one of her father’s colleagues in Brazil, Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains). 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’s fallen in love with her.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Commentary with film historian Rick Jewell
- Commentary with film historian Drew Casper
- Isolated Music and Effects Track
- The Ultimate Romance: The Making of Notorious Featurette
- Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster Featurette
- AFI Tribute to Hitchcock
- 1948 Radio Play Starring Joseph Cotton and Ingrid Bergman
- Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
- Audio Interview: Francois Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock
- Restoration Comparision
- Still Gallery
- PLUS: A 4-Page Booklet
Rebecca (1940)
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.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Commentary by film historian/author Richard Schickel
- Screen tests
- Making of Rebecca Featurette
- The Gothic World of Daphne Du Maurier Featurette
- Original 1938 Radio Play Starring Orson Welles
- 1941 Radio Play Presented by Cecil B. DeMille
- 1950 Radio Play with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier
- Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
- Audio Interview: François Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock
- PLUS: A Four-page booklet
Sabotoge (1936)
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’s novel, The Secret Agent.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Commentary with film historian Leonard Leff
- Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
- Restoration Comparision
Spellbound (1945)
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 impostor 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’s emotional problems.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Commentary with film historians Thomas Schatz & Charles Ramirez Berg
- Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing Spellbound Featurette
- A Cinderella Story: Rhonda Fleming Featurette
- Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism and Salvador Dali Featurette
- 1948 Radio Play Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
- Audio Interview: Film Historian Rudy Belhemer Interviews Composer Miklós Rózsa
- Still Gallery
- PLUS: A Four-page booklet
The Paradine Case (1947)
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.
BONUS FEATURES
- Commentary with film historians Stephen Rebello & Bill Krohn
- Isolated Music and Effects Track
- 1949 Radio Play Starring Joseph Cotton
- Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
- Restoration Comparision
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