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Alfred Hitchcock:
The Collection
Volume 2
(1926-1962)

Contents: The Lodger (1926), Easy Virtue (1927), The Farmer’s Wife (1928), Blackmail (1929), Murder! (1930), Rich and Strange (1932), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Sabotage (1937), The Lady Vanishes (1938) and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1962).

This boxset contains three silent Hitchcock films, six sound films and one television episode.

Laserlight Digital
1999 DVD edition

Alfred Hitchcock: The Collection, Volume 2 (1926-1962), black & white, 802 minutes total, not rated.

Laserlight Digital, DEL89023DVD, UPC 0-18111-99693-8.
Seven single-sided, single and dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional Spanish, Japanese and Chinese subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcases with cardboard slipcase; $49.95.
Release date: 20 July 1999.
Country of origin: USA

We have not viewed all of the DVDs in this boxset. If the DVDs we have seen from this series are representative (the edition of The Lady Vanishes is very good), the video transfers may be slightly more contrasty, with a few more visible compression artifacts, than we would prefer.

For our comparative reviews of the individual titles in this boxset, see our The Lodger on home video, Easy Virtue on home video, The Farmer’s Wife on home video and Blackmail on home video pages.

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. Not recommended by us, the films in this collection have since appeared in better-looking home video editions.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD boxset has been discontinued
and is . . .