| Alfred Hitchcock |
Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Edition), North by Northwest, Dial M for Murder, Foreign Correspondent, Suspicion, The Wrong Man, Stage Fright, I Confess, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Description: The Signature Collection contains the DVD debut of 8 Hitchcock classics including "Strangers on a Train Two-Disc Special Edition," and the following 7 new single-disc DVDs: "Dial M For Murder," "Foreign Correspondent" "Suspicion," "The Wrong Man," "Stage Fright," "I Confess" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." The previously released "North by Northwest" is also included in the 10-disc Signature Collection. Each of the 9 films in the collection shows why Hitchcock is regarded as one of Hollywood's most esteemed and important directors, and also brings legendary stars to the digital front including , , , , and many others. Strangers on a Train - En route from Washington, D.C., champion tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets pushy playboy Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker). What begins as a chance encounter turns into a series of morbid confrontations, as Bruno manipulates his way into Guy's life. Bruno is eager to kill his father and knows Guy wants to marry a senator's daughter (Ruth Roman) but can't get a divorce from his wife. So Bruno suggests the men swap murders, which would leave no traceable clues or possible motives. Though Guy refuses, it won't be easy to rid himself of the psychopathic Bruno. Hitchcock's daughter Patricia appears in this film. The extra features included on the DVD are: Alternate 'preview' version of the film; Commentary by director Peter Bogdanovich, Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stephano, Strangers on a Train author Patricia Highsmith and biographer Andrew Wilson; New making-of documentary Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic, with Farley Granger, film historian Richard Schickel, Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell and other Hitchcock family members and colleagues recalling the making of this suspense landmark; Three intriguing featurettes: The Hitchcocks on Hitch, Strangers on a Train: The Victim's P.O.V., Strangers on a Train by M. Night Shyamalan; Alfred Hitchcock's Historical Meeting, a vintage newsreel. Each DVD will be presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition and will include the original theatrical trailer, and subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
Film Noir Classic Collection: The Asphalt Jungle, Gun Crazy, Murder My Sweet, Out of the Past, The Set-Up Description: Some boxed sets claim to be definitive, but are haphazardly selected. Not this one. Four of the five titles here can legitimately lay claim to being essentials in the film noir canon, and the fifth, The Set-Up, is a terrific boxing picture with a strong noir atmosphere. If you're a fan of noir--or have no idea what it's all about--this collection is a treat. Of course, none of these movies were made as "film noir." The term was coined later by French critics to describe the moody, anxious feel of postwar American movies, especially the genre that highlighted duplicitous dames and susceptible men lost in the criminal jungle. Indeed, the title The Asphalt
Jungle conveys the edgy urban arena of these pictures. That film is John Huston's masterly 1950 account of a heist, with Sterling Hayden the disenchanted, noirish hero. Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy (1949) is one of the most supercharged (and sexually perverse) of noir films, with John Dall and Peggy Cummins as young criminals in love. Murder, My Sweet (1944) is a straight adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely. Amid the film's shadowy chiaroscuro, former musical comedy star Dick Powell makes a career-changing transition as Chandler's private dick, Philip Marlowe. Out of the Past puts Robert Mitchum (perhaps the quintessential noir actor) in trouble with gangster Kirk Douglas, complicated by classic femme fatale Jane Greer. Jacques Tourneur provides the evocative direction.
And The Set-Up plays out an ingenious boxing tale in "real time," superbly enacted by (former boxer) Robert Ryan
Alfred Hitchcock Movie (Film) List:
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| 1925 The Pleasure Garden 1927 The Mountain Eagle 1927 The Lodger 1927 Downhill 1927 Easy Virtue 1927 The Ring 1928 Champagne 1928 The Farmer's Wife 1929 The Manxman 1929 Blackmail 1930 Juno and the Paycock 1930 Murder! 1931 The Skin Game 1932 Number Seventeen 1932 Rich and Strange 1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934 Waltzes From Vienna 1935 The 39 Steps |
1936 Sabotage 1936 Secret Agent 1937 Young and Innocent 1938 The Lady Vanishes 1939 Jamaica Inn 1940 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Rebecca 1941 Mr. and Mrs. Smith 1941 Suspicion 1942 Saboteur 1943 Shadow of a Doubt 1944 Lifeboat 1945 Spellbound 1946 Notorious 1948 The Paradine Case 1948 Rope 1949 Under Capricorn 1950 Stage Fright |
1951 Strangers on a Train 1953 I Confess 1954 Dial "M" for Murder 1954 Rear Window 1955 To Catch a Thief 1955 The Trouble with Harry 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much (remake) 1956 The Wrong Man 1958 Vertigo 1959 North by Northwest 1960 Psycho 1963 The Birds 1964 Marnie 1966 Torn Curtain 1969 Topaz 1972 Frenzy 1976 Family Plot |
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