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Sounds like a nice release from MGM/Fox. The box set includes new restorations of eight Hitchcock titles, some of which are OOP or unavailable in R1, with a healthy dose of extras:
- The Lodger (1927)
- Sabotage (1936)
- Young and Innocent (1937)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Lifeboat (1944)
- Spellbound (1945)
- Notorious (1946)
- The Paradine Case (1947)
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Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection (US - DVD R1) in News > Releases at DVDActive
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Re: Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection - Oct 14, 2008
The one thing that bugged me about the Warners and Universal sets was the dearth of commentaries -- IIRC, only 3 out of 23 films total had one. The documentaries were nice, but classics like Rear Window, Psycho, and The Birds really deserve a scene by scene analysis. It's good to see all the films in the Fox set -- even The Paradine Case -- will have at least one commentary.
And since I own the Criterion Notorious, I'll have four separate commentaries on that one film!
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Re: Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection - Oct 14, 2008
On one hand, I'm extremely excited to see this set coming, but I can't commit to it until I see some details. I already own all of the Criterion editions as well as Lifeboat. From a first glance, it appears that there are several major extras that are not contained on the new editions, plus the commentaries are different and not necesarily by better commentators.
I might be willing to part with my CC Notorious since it's one of my least favorite Hitchcock's, but I love Rebecca and Spelbound and I would need to keep both editions in order to have all of the extras.
Does anybody know if this will be a box with individual cases or one of the dreaded fold-out sets? If they're individuals, I might go for it and sell of whichever duplicates I don't care for.
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Re: Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection - Oct 14, 2008
| BTW; $120? Anyone else think that's just a little steep, even for such a well-stocked set? |
CRIKEY! I didn't notice that price on my first viewing. That is quite steep, although I would expect the street pricing to be closer to $80 when all is said and done. I'll sell off my copy of Lifeboat which will bring it down another notch, but that still makes $70+ for a bunch of double-dips and a couple of lesser Hitchcock films. I may have to wait for these to be individually released, unless the documentaries and commentaries prove to be phenomonal and on par with the Criterion editions.
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Re: Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection - Oct 14, 2008
Finally!! This set was supposed to come out 2 years ago.
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Re: Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection - Oct 14, 2008
great news indeed.
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Re: Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection - Oct 14, 2008
This is just a minor quibble...but it always bothers me when companies use box art that doesn't match the time-frame of the films included. This happens all the time in PD Hitchcock releases, but it would be nice if MGM had used a picture of Hitch that was actually taken before the late 1950s. Im tired of seeing all the Hitchcock box sets illustrated with pictures of Hitch taken in the 1960s when the films in the set are from the 1920s and 1930s. I know many will say thats how the public best remembers him, but no matter how old he was you can always tell its Hitch in the picture. Its just the obessive compulsive historian in me I guess....lol.
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Re: Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection - Oct 14, 2008
Well, I checked the opening link and was shocked at the factual errors Sony/MGM/Fox made in the publicity blurbs:
Giving Mrs. Paradine the wrong first name,
listing the 1944 remake of The Lodger instead of Hitchock's silent version,
and worst yet, they gave away the true identity of Gregory Peck's character in Spellbound!!! Somewhere Hitch is turning in his grave......
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Re: Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection - Oct 14, 2008
I've been waiting a long time for Young & Innocent to be available, but I already own the rest of those, so I'll probably wait and hope it's available separately at some point.
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