Announced three weeks ago by **MGM**, we now have guidance regarding the pricing for the Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection set to street on October 14th.
The eight disc set will carry the titles below and retail for $119.98, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $89.99. Three titles from the set (Rebecca, Spellbound and Notorious) will be available as singles and retail for $19.98, but can be purchased at Classicflix.com for only $14.99. More details below.
Titles with previous release information:
NOTE: We're doing something unusual with this release in that we have removed the previous Criterion releases (Rebecca, Spellbound and Notorious) from our database. Normally we favor Criterion over any other company, but favor MGM in this instance because the difference in print quality and bonus features is likely to be nominal. A Comparison Chart listing Bonus Features is at the bottom.
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. Available for a suggested retail price of $119.98, Rebecca, Spellbound and Notorious will also be available as singe discs for a suggested retail price of $19.98.
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
Bonus Features Comparison Chart
Rebecca
- MGM
- 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
- Criterion
- Commentary by Film Scholar Leonard J. Leff, author of Hitchcock and Selznick
- Rare Screen, Hair Makeup and Costume Tests Including Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter, Loretta Young, Margaret Sullavan and Joan Fontaine
- Hitchcock on Rebecca, excerpts from his conversations with Francois Truffaut
- Phone Interviews with Stars Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson from 1986
- Hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos chronicling the film's production from location scouting, set photos and wardrobe continuity to ads, posters, and promotional memorabilia
- Production Correspondence and Casting Notes
- Deleted Scene Script Excerpts
- 1939 Test Screening Questionnaire
- Essay on Rebecca Author Daphne du Maurier
- Footage from the 1940 Academy Awards Ceremony
- Re-Issue Trailer
- Three Hours of Complete Radio Show Adaptations:
- 1938 Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre Broadcast
- 1941 Lux Radio Theatre Broadcast starring Ronald Colman and Ida Lupino, Including an Interview with David O. Selznick
- 1950 Lux Radio Theatre Broadcast Starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
Spellbound
- MGM
- 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
- Criterion
- Commentary by Hitchcock Scholar Marian Keane
- "A Nightmare Ordered by Telephone": An in-depth, illustrated essay on the Salvador Dali-designed dream sequence by James Bigwood
- Excerpts Rrom a 1973 Audio Interview with Composer Miklos Rozsa
- Complete 1948 Lux Radio Theater Adaptation starring Joseph Cotton and Alida Valli
- The Fishko Files: A WNYC/New York Public Radio piece on the theremin
- Essays by Noted Hitchcock Scholars Leonard Leff and Lesley Brill
- Hundreds of Behind-the-Scenes Photos and Documents Chronicling the Film's Production, Including Set Photos, Ads, Posters and Publicity Material
- Theatrical Trailer
Notorious
- MGM
- 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
- Criterion
- Commentaries by Hitchcock film scholar Marian Keane and film historian Rudy Behlmer, editor of Memo from David O. Selznick
- Complete broadcast of the 1948 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation, starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton
- Rare production, publicity, and rear projection photos, as well as promotional posters and lobby cards
- Production correspondence
- Collection of trailers and teasers
- Script excerpts of deleted scenes and alternate endings
- Excerpts from the short story "The Song of the Dragon," source material for Notorious
- Rare newsreel footage of Bergman and Hitchcock
- Isolated music and effects track
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