Vijftien films van Alfred Hitchcock verschijnen op 25 september voor het eerst op Blu-ray en ook nog eens in een beperkte oplage.
De films zijn allemaal helemaal digitaal gerestaureerd. In de set zitten 13 films die niet eerder op Blu-ray verschenen en een vijftig pagina’s tellend boekje met storyboards, kostuum ontwerpen, correspondentie, foto’s en meer. Verder is er meer dan 15 uur aan documentaires, filmmaker commentaren, interviews, screen tests, trailers en de nieuwe documentaire The Birds, Hitchcock’s Monster Movie.
Een overzicht van de inhoud:
Saboteur (1942)
Bonus Features: Saboteur: A Closer Look – Storyboards: The Statue of Liberty Sequence -
Alfred Hitchcock’s Sketches – Production Photographs – Theatrical Trailer
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Bonus Features: Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock’s Favorite Film – Production Drawings by Art Director Robert Boyle – Production Photographs – Theatrical Trailer
Rope (1948)
Bonus Features: Rope Unleashed – Production Photographs – Theatrical Trailer
Rear Window (1954)
Bonus Features: Rear Window Ethics: An Original Documentary – A Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael Hayes – Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of The Master – Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock – Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts – Masters of Cinema – Feature Commentary with John Fawell, author of Hitchcock’s Rear Window: The Well-Made Film – Production Photographs – Theatrical Trailer – Re-Release Trailer Narrated by James Stewart – Blu-ray exclusives: BD Live, Pocket Blu
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Bonus Features: The Trouble with Harry Isn’t Over – Production Photographs – Theatrical Trailer
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Bonus Features: The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much – Production Photographs -
Trailers
Vertigo (1958)
Bonus Features: Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock’s Masterpiece – Partners in Crime: Hitchcock’s Collaborators – Hitchcock / Truffaut Interview Excerpts – Foreign Censorship Ending – The Vertigo Archives – Feature Commentary with Associate Producer Herbert Coleman, Restoration Team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz, and Other Vertigo Participants – Feature Commentary with Director William Friedkin – 100 Years of Universal: The Lew Wasserman Era – Theatrical Trailer – Restoration Theatrical Trailer – BD Live, Pocket Blu (Blu-ray Exclusive)
North by Northwest (1959)
Bonus Features: Feature Commentary by screenwriter Ernest Lehman – The Master’s Touch: Hitchcock’s Signature Style – Cary Grant: A Class Apart – North by Northwest: One for the Ages – Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North by Northwest – Music-only audio track -
Stills gallery – Theatrical trailers and TV spot
Psycho (1960)
Bonus Features: The Making of Psycho – Psycho Sound – In The Master’s Shadow: Hitchcock’s Legacy – Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts – Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho – The Shower Scene: With and Without Music – The Shower Scene: Storyboards by Saul Bass – The Psycho Archives – Posters and Psycho Ads – Lobby Cards – Behind-the-Scenes Photographs – Production Photographs – Theatrical Trailer – Re-release Trailers -
Feature Commentary with Stephen Rebello (author of Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho)
The Birds (1963)
Bonus Features: Deleted Scene – Original Ending – The Birds: Hitchcock’s Monster Movie – New! (Blu-ray Exclusive) – All About The Birds – Storyboards – Tippi Hedren’s Screen Test -
Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts – The Birds Is Coming (Universal International Newsreel) – Suspense Story: National Press Club Hears Hitchcock (Universal International Newsreel) – Production Photographs – 100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics -
100 Years of Universal: The Lot – Theatrical Trailer – BD Live, Pocket Blu (Blu-ray Exclusive)
Marnie (1964)
Bonus Features: The Trouble with Marnie – The Marnie Archives – Theatrical Trailer
Torn Curtain (1966)
Bonus Features: Torn Curtain Rising – Scenes Scored by Bernard Herrmann – Production Photographs – Theatrical Trailer
Topaz (1969)
Bonus Features: Alternate Endings – Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Historian and Critic Leonard Maltin – Storyboards: The Mendozas – Production Photographs – Theatrical Trailer
Frenzy (1972)
Bonus Features: The Story of Frenzy – Production Photographs – Theatrical Trailer
Family Plot (1976)
Bonus Features: Plotting Family Plot – Storyboards: The Chase Scene – Production Photographs – Theatrical Trailer
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