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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MILL CREEK ENT.
EAN: 0683904200310
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, Mono, NTSC
Label: Mill Creek Entertainment
Manufacturer: Mill Creek Entertainment
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Mill Creek Entertainment
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Running Time: 1614 minutes
Sales Rank: 9270
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
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Product Description:
Famous for his expert and largely unrivalled control of pace and suspense, Hitchcock's films draw heavily on both fear and fantasy, and are known for their droll humor and witticisms.
Included
1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Chaney Vase
2. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
3. Blackmail
4. Champagne (Silent)
5. Easy Virtue (Silent)
6. Farmer's Wife, The (Silent)
7. Jamaica Inn
8. Juno and the Paycock
9. Lady Vanishes, The
10. Lodger, The (Silent)
11. Man Who Knew Too Much, The
12. Manxman, The (Silent)
13. Number Seventeen
14. Rich and Strange
15. Ring, The (Silent)
16. Sabotage
17. Secret Agent
18. Skin Game, The
19. Thirty-Nine Steps, The
20. Young and Innocent
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Poor quality DVDs
One of the four DVDs is not working at all.
The movies are not remastered or anything, it's the original image and sound. The sound is especially bad. Unfortunately I am not very satisfied with this collection, although I am a big Hitchcock fan.
Rating:  - The Legend begins--to good to be true?
I found this collection in a $5 dollar bargain bin at a Wal-Mart. I bought it for the chance to see some of Hitchcock's early silent films, even though I already owned the majority of the films included from Diamond Entertainment's Alfred Hitchcock Collection.
The collection contains several of Hitchcock's early classics. Among them is his most famous silent film, The Lodger (1927), Blackmail (1929)(which incidentally, was the first British talkie), the original The Man who Knew too Much (1934), and the classic spy thriller The 39 Steps (1935)(which is practically a required viewing for any Hitchcock fan).
The collection has all this and more. To some it may sound like a "too good to be true" deal. The picture and sound quality varies from film to film, but very few of them are unwatchable because of this. I did have a problem with one film, The Lodger. Either it was a bad transfer or a defective disc, because while watching the film, green pixelated images appeared on the TV and almost always caused the disc to freeze. I guess it was the transfer because when I watched another film on the same disc, there were no problems. Unfortunately for me, The Lodger was the first film I chose to watch.
Overall, I would suggest this set for any hard-core Hitchcock fan because it's probably one of the best deals you'll ever find for 20 Hitchcock films. But buyer beware, If you found this in a $5 movie bin, be ready for a possible defect or two. 4 stars.
Rating:  - What a lot of fussing over a 5 buck item!
I picked this up at Wal-Mart in the five-dollar bin, desperate for a copy of The Thirty-Nine Steps and willing to risk all of a five-big-dollars-plus-tax for it. What I got was a terrific collection of the early Hitchcock films, including the silents, not remastered but seemingly all taken from surprisingly decent prints, and with good sound--the quality we used to see and be fine with on late night television. All my discs played perfectly including one I'd scratched accidentally. The discs are packed solid with material so if your DVD player is old or dirty you might have problems.
If I waited for Criterion to do up an equivalent package, and that doesn't seem to be happening, I'd probably end up paying over $200 for the whole shebang. This $5 deal leaves me with $195 to go out and get another DVD player, or even a new lawnmower. Not bad.
Batches of defective discs turn up all the time. It just happens. If a customer, immediately after purchase, swaps a bad disc or set in for a replacement it's likely they'll get another from the same batch. At some point the retailer realizes something is amiss and sends everything back to the distributor. Nobody's selling you defective DVDs because they think it's a swell idea.
Mill Creek Entertainment's address is: Mill Creek Entertainment
2445 Nevada Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55427. I just got this information off the Internet in all of fifteen seconds. They're in Minneapolis so they're probably really nice people ... Read More
Rating:  - Avoid!
Twenty of the early Hitchcock classics in one boxed set for less than ten bucks. Too good to be true, right? Right. The discs are of such poor quality that they will neither play on my dvd player nor my computer. I have never experienced trouble of any kind on either before. It may seem like a bargain, but please avoid!
Rating: - A Quarter a Movie !
I found this set on sale at half the price quoted here. I haven't even starting watching the movies yet (and don't expect them all to be hits or be of the best DVD quality) but for 25 cents a movie, this is the best bargain I have found in a long, long time! Even at 50 cents a movie I wouldn't complain. I can't wait to catch up on some of the classics and perhaps find a few hidden gems in the mix. I figure even a mediocre Hitchcock movie will probably be better than many others.
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