Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection - MGM Home Entertainment (USA, 2008)

Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection

distributor	MGM Home Entertainment (USA)
release date	14/Oct/2008
format	8 DVD discs
region encoding	region 1
UPC/EAN
catalogue
main transfer	NTSC black & white
database ID	9075

Overview

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The Lodger (1927)
- 1999 score by Ashley Irwin presented in 5.1 Dolby Surround
- 1997 score by Paul Zaza presented in Mono
- Commentary with biographer Patrick McGilligan
- "The Sound of Silence: The Making of The Lodger" featurette
- "Hitchcock 101" featurette
- 1940 radio play directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich interviews Hitchcock
- Audio Interview: François Truffaut interviews Hitchcock
- Restoration comparison

Sabotage (1936)
- Commentary with film historian Leonard Leff
- Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich interviews Hitchcock
- Restoration comparison
- Still gallery

Young and Innocent (1937)
- Commentary with film historians Stephen Rebello & Bill Krohn
- Isolated music and effects track
- Audio interview: Peter Bogdanovich interviews Hitchcock
- Audio interview: François Truffaut interviews Hitchcock
- Restoration comparison
- Still gallery

Rebecca (1940)
- 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

Lifeboat
- Commentary with film historian Drew Casper
- "The Making of Lifeboat" featurette
- The original theatrical trailer
- Still gallery featuring photographs from the set

Spellbound (1945)
- 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
- Still gallery

Notorious (1946)
- 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" featurette
- 1948 radio play starring Joseph Cotton and Ingrid Bergman
- Audio interview: Peter Bogdanovich interviews Hitchcock
- Audio interview: François Truffaut interviews Hitchcock
- Restoration comparison
- Still gallery

The Paradine Case (1947)
- 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 comparison
- Still galleries

A number of reports indicate that there may be a quality control problem with the initial pressings of the discs for this set (see blog post)