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The Early Hitchcock Collection [DVD] [1929]

Anny Ondra (Actor), John Longden (Actor), Alfred Hitchcock (Director) | Rated: Parental Guidance | Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Anny Ondra, John Longden, Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Carl Brisson
  • Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writers: Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Benn W. Levy, Charles Bennett, Clemence Dane
  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 9
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Optimum Home Releasing
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Feb 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000KRMZMY
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 7,681 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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This special boxset brings together some of Hitchcock’s early gems for the first time. The Ring, Champagne, The Farmer’s Wife & The Manxman have been fully re-mastered and feature Brand New and Exclusive Soundtracks. Other key extras include an alternative ending to Murder!, scenes from the original, silent version of Blackmail, and a documentary on Hitchcock’s early work, featuring Claude Chabrol and Bernard Eisenschitz.

Born in London in 1899 and Jesuit educated, Alfred Hitchcock’s first job was with an electrical company where art school training enabled him to draw technical advertisements. He subsequently designed title cards for silent films when he joined the fledgling industry in the early ‘twenties.

Hitchcock rapidly acquired a thorough grounding in all aspects of early film making, including writing, design and direction. From the age of sixteen he had taken a serious interest in cinema and found himself most influenced, both technically and visually by the early masters of silent film; Griffiths, Murnau and Fritz Lang.

Alfred Hitchcock directed his first feature film, The Pleasure Garden in Germany in 1925 and received immediate critical acclaim. By the age of twenty-seven with several successes behind him he was regarded as one of the mot promising young film directors in all Europe, with a reputation for being a patient, polished, highly intelligent director who showed more subtlety and imagination in his work than most of his contemporaries.

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29 of 33 people found the following review helpful
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This is a great set, an absolute must for anyone interested in the film career of Alfred Hitchcock, with some of his earlier British films (including 4 silent movies), lovingly restored and with some wonderful extras, most notably an hour long documentary on early Hitchcock. It's amazing how great these movies look on this new masters (infinitely better than all previous releases, that can now be easily dismissed). I just hope that Studio Canal and Optimun Classic get round to release soon the rest of the British films, particularly The Lodger, the first true Hitchcock work only available so far in unwatchable transfers. Some of these films may not be great works of art, up to the standard set by the master in his later opus, but in all of them can be found moments and ideas which speak loud of a real genius in working process. Don't miss it!
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Mixed bag 7 July 2010
There's a great selection of titles here, though it would be much better to have all of Hitchcock's silent films in a single box. You can get The Pleasure Garden, the Lodger and Downhill in the Network set, but no one currently offers Easy Virtue. What makes no sense, however, is only including the sound version of Blackmail in this box set. This is a typical short cut from this label. Blackmail is among the finest films that Hitchcock made in the 1920s, though given that the sound version was Britain's first sound film, it feels very stilted in comparison to the silent. The quality of the transfers here is just about OK, though not a patch on the remastering of British silents such as A Cottage on Dartmoor or Piccadilly. The real nightmare here however are the terrible soundtracks that virtually destroy the experience of watching some of the films. Again, it's like no effort has been made by Optimum Home Entertainment to invest in a soundtrack that is sympathetic to the film. Most of the sound films look and sound OK.
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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Missing 16 April 2007
Buying this set was a treat as most of them were earlier available in terrible prints.Some of films in the set are important works like blackmail and rich and Strange. However it is a pity they have not included the silent version of Blackmail like was done in the german version. The other important omissions are The finest Hitch silent The Lodger. I would also have liked to see Young and Inocent if for nothing else but the glorious camera movement that ends in a close up of the villians eyes. i hope there is a vol 2 that puts these films out
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