Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #225 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-11-21
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 14
• Running time: 1605 minutes

Synopsis
DVD special features:

The Birds: All About The Birds - Making Of, Tippi Hedren's Screen Test, Universal News Reel Stories x 2, Storyboard Sequence: Deleted Scene (Script Pages), Alternative Ending (Sketches & Storyboards), Production Photographs.

Family Plot: Plotting Family Plot - Making Of, Storyboards.

Frenzy: The Story Of Frenzy - Making Of.

The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Making Of The Man Who Knew Too Much, Trailer Compilation.

"Marnie": The Trouble With Marnie - Making Of, Production Photographs.

Rear Window: Rear Window Ethics: Remembering & Restoring a Hitchcock Classic - Making Of, Featurette, Trailer Compilation.

Saboteur: A Closer Look - Making Of, Storyboards, Hitchcock Sketches.

Shadow Of A Doubt: Beyond Doubt: The Making Of Hitchcock's Favourite Film, Production Drawings.

Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin - Making Of, Alternative Endings x 3 - Duel/Airport/Suicide, Storyboards, Production Photographs.

Torn Curtain: Torn Curtain Rising - Making Of, Scenes Scored By Composer Bernard Herrmann.

The Trouble With Harry: The Trouble With Harry Isn't Over - Making Of, Trailer Compilation.

Rope: Rope Unleashed - Making Of, Trailer Compilation.

Vertigo: Obsessed with Vertigo, Feature Commentary, Cast And Filmmakers, Production Notes.

Psycho: Masters Of Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock, American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock, Production Notes, Cast And Filmmakers.

Theatrical Trailers.

Art Gallery.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Value Box Set
14 Alfred Hitchcock films for this low price is an absolute bargain.
The films look and sound great and all have extra features.

Highly recommended.

Panned, scanned and damned
A potentially fabulous box set is scuppered by the fact (as pointed out by other reviewers) that four of the films - The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain and Topaz - are presented in completely the wrong aspect ratio, despite information to the contrary on the boxes themselves. The upshot is that anyone who buys this set, tempted by the admittedly wonderful extra features, will still have to buy widescreen (Region 1) versions of these films if they want to see them in a form even approximating to what Hitchcock intended. How ridiculous. They might just as well have colorised Psycho while they were at it.

WHA?!
these box sets were released the same month in both US-UK-- US 15 discs,(bonus) UK 14 (and not only in 1:33 as Amazon.us mistakenly reports)
yet the US box has a completely restored,new 16x9 Anamorphic transfers of THE BIRDS, VERTIGO, & PSYCHO, MARNIE
(my essentials)
and all the rest are restored and in original aspect ratios-16x9 when applicable

Have Universal UK no scruples? pure insult to their buying public

(My rating is for the USA MASTERPIECE BOX)

for a laugh-and then rage-stick one of those 3 into your PC/Mac and open up on desktop; put open folder into "list view"you will see VOB files and VTS_Video files and their creation dates. If they are the recycled discs from 2001 (?) ie before 2005, Then I'd take a brick, tape it to the box and toss it through Universal UK front Office Window