ALFRED HITCHCOCK: THE BRITISH YEARS
Undoubtedly one of the greatest film makers in the history of
cinema, Alfred Hitchcock directed over 60 films in his lifetime, in
a career spanning 50 years from the 1920s to the 1970s. The
undisputed master of suspense, his films were always massive
commercial hits and highly popular with the viewing public. None
more so than this collection of films made by Hitchcock for British
studios between the 1920s and 1930s, before he departed for
Hollywood. This set contains ten of the East End director’s finest:
The Pleasure Garden The Lodger, Downhill, The Man who Knew Too Much;
The Thirty-Nine Steps; Secret Agent, Sabotage, Young & Innocent, The
Lady Vanishes and Jamaica Inn, together in one set for the first
time on DVD, RRP ?59.99.
Special features in this package include:
• Digitally restored versions of The Lodger, Sabotage, Young and
Innocent and Jamaica Inn
• Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock – unseen for forty years, Mike Scott
interviews Hitchcock about his life and career
• Aquarius - Alfred Hitchcock – taken from the 1972 Arts programme,
this show includes candid photography of Hitchcock filming Frenzy in
London
• Charles Barr on...a series of featurettes in which film historian
Charles Barr introduces and analyses each of the ten films within
the set
• On location reports for Sabotage and The Thirty-Nine Steps
introduced by actor Robert Powell
• Original theatrical trailer for The Lady Vanishes
• Script PDFs for The Thirty-Nine Steps, The Lady Vanishes and
Jamaica Inn
• Commemorative booklet written by Charles Barr
• Image Galleries
• 8 – page booklet by film historian and writer of “English
Hitchcock”, Charles Barr, presenting an overview of Hitchcock’s
career
The Pleasure Garden (1925): An action-filled melodrama about a
selfish London chorus girl’s pursuit of pleasure to a point where it
nearly causes her death.
Starring Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander and John
Stuart
The Lodger (1927): Inspired by a book on Jack the Ripper of the same
name. Daisy, a blonde model, is staying with her parents who have
rented a room to a lodger. Her suitor, a detective, searches the
lodger’s room and finds press clippings of seven recent murder
victims who were also all blonde models...
Starring Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney and Malcolm Keen
Downhill (1927): A sixth-form schoolboy, expelled from his school in
disgrace after being suspected of a theft, is sent to Marseilles
where his antics go from bad to worse – however, when he is found
innocent, what path will his life take?
Starring Ivor Novello, Robin Irvine, Isabel Jeans and Ian Hunter
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934): While holidaying in Switzerland
with their daughter Betty, Jill Lawrence and her husband
accidentally become involved in murder and intrigue, when an
undercover Secret Service agent, Louis, whispers the whereabouts of
vital message to Lawrence as he lies dying from a gunshot wound.
Starring Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre, Edna Best and Nova Pilbeam
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935): The original version of the classic
comedy thriller. Richard Hannay meets a young woman who is
subsequently murdered in his flat. He must avoid the police until he
has found the real killers, and solved the riddle of the 39 steps.
Starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Caroll, Lucie Mannheim and Godfrey
Tearle
Secret Agent (1936): A novelist is persuaded by the head of the
Secret Service to undertake a ‘commission’ in Switzerland. He is
given a false name and his instructions. Then while travelling in
Turkey, he becomes involved in murder and intrigue…
Starring John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll and Robert
Young
Sabotage (1936): Mr Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs
who are plotting to put a bomb on the underground train. Tragic
events follow as the messenger carrying the bomb, together with the
occupants of the bus he boarded, are killed when the device
explodes...
Starring Oscar Homolka, Sylvia Sidney, Desmond Tester and John Loder
Young and Innocent (1937): Robert Tinsdall sees the body of a young
girl washed up on the beach and runs to find help. He is seen by two
girls who, believing him to be the murderer, inform the police. How
can he prove his innocence?
Starring Derrick de Marney, Nova Pilbeam, Percy Marmont and Edward
Rigby
The Lady Vanishes (1938): Intrigue and espionage abound when a young
woman travelling aboard a Trans-Continental Express train strikes up
an acquaintance with a middle-aged English Governess who then
disappears. Is the young woman hallucinating or is it something
altogether more sinister...
Starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Basil Radford, Naunton
Wayne and Googie Withers
Jamaica Inn (1939): Based on Daphne Du Maurier’s novel, thieves and
cut-throats prey on merchant ships foundering in the heavy seas. A
young barmaid suspects they are causing the ships to run aground in
order to scavenge the wrecks. But how can she prove it when no-one
wants to investigate?
Starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Leslie Banks, Emlyn
Williams and Robert Newton
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED
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