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Alfred Hitchcock:
The Collection

Volume 1
(1927-1955)

This box set from Laserlight Digital includes these silent era Hitchcock films: The Ring (1927) and The Manxman (1929). The box set also includes these early Hitchcock sound films: The Skin Game (1931), Number 17 (1932), The 39 Steps (1935), Secret Agent (1936), Young and Innocent (1937) and Jamaica Inn (1939). In addition, the set includes one episode from the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series, The Cheney Vase (1955).

Brief notes on the second volume box set of early Hitchcock films from Laserlight.

1999 Laserlight Digital edition

Alfred Hitchcock: The Collection, Volume 1 (1927-1955), black & white, 689 minutes total, not rated.

Laserlight Digital, DEL89022DVD, UPC 0-18111-99683-9.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, seven single-sided, single and dual-layered DVD discs, Region 0, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English intertitles, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese subtitles, chapter stops, keep cases with cardboard slipcase, $49.95.
DVD release date: 20 July 1999.
Country of origin: USA

We have viewed all but The Skin Game from this box set and the video transfers are slightly more contrasty, with a few more visible compression artifacts, than we would prefer. However, we feel that given the low prices on these budget-line DVDs, they still represent a good value for the casual collector.

Review of this edition of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Ring (1927) on DVD.
Review of this edition of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Manxman (1929) on DVD.

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.

 
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
 
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other silent era ALFRED HITCHCOCK films available on home video.

Other BRITISH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

Alfred Hitchcock filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List

 
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