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Alfred Hitchcock:
The Collection
Volume 1
(1927-1955)
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Contents: The Ring (1927), The Manxman (1929), The Skin Game (1931), Number 17 (1932), The 39 Steps (1935), Secret Agent (1936), Young and Innocent (1937), Jamaica Inn (1939) and The Cheney Vase (1955).
This boxset contains two silent Hitchcock films, six sound films and one television episode.
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 Laserlight Digital
1999 DVD edition
Alfred Hitchcock: The Collection, Volume 1 (1927-1955), black & white, 689 minutes total, not rated.
Laserlight Digital, DEL89022DVD, UPC 0-18111-99683-9.
Seven single-sided, single and 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 mono sound, English intertitles, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese subtitles, chapter stops; standard DVD keepcases with cardboard slipcase; $49.95.
Release date: 20 July 1999.
Country of origin: USA
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We have viewed all od the DVD editions but The Skin Game from this boxset and the video transfers are slightly more contrasty, with a few more visible compression artifacts, than we would prefer.
For our reviews of the individual titles in this boxset, see our pages: The Ring on home video, and The Manxman on home video.
This collection, and its companion collection of DVDs, were gathered for sale as a single box set of 14 DVDs entitled Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years (DEL89062DVD) for the 2000 Christmas season. The entire collection, all 1379 minutes of it, sells for the fire sale price of $99.99. Not recommended by us, the films in this collection have since appeared in better-looking home video editions.
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Other silent era ALFRED HITCHCOCK films available on home video.
Other BRITISH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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Alfred Hitchcock filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
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