This pristine collection features eight early masterworks from the oft-silhouetted auteur. If the 1927 silent thriller THE LODGER showed the world what a young Hitchcock was made of, then the crime tales YOUNG AND INNOCENT and SABATOGE ushered his craft into the world of sound, and Laurence Olivier helped the master bring it to new heights in the romantic mystery-thriller REBBECA (1940). A pair of classics featuring the radiant Ingrid Bergman--the psychological thriller SPELLBOUND and the quintessential spy noir NOTORIOUS--are also included in this collection, as is the Gregory Peck legal drama THE PARADINE CASE. The set also features LIFEBOAT, the unconventional World War II thriller that does wonders with just one waterlogged set and Tallulah Bankhead. Almost every one of the films is supplemented with extensive featurettes, vintage trailers, restoration comparisons, commentary from film historians, and more. See individual titles for more detailed information.

DVD Features:

Region 1
8-Disc Set
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Mono - English
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Product:
Collectible Booklet - 32-page Notebook with Trivia and Production Notes

DISC 1: REBECCA
Additional Release Material:
Additional Audio Material - 1. Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
2. Audio Interview: François Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock
3. Original 1938 Radio Play Starring Orson Welles
4. 1941 Radio Play Presented by Cecil B. DeMille
5. 1950 Radio Play with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier
Audio Commentary - Richard Schickel/ Film Historian and Author
Behind the Scenes · Screen Tests
Featurette - 1. "Making of REBECCA"
2. "The Gothic World of Daphne Du Maurier"

DISC 2: THE LODGER
Additional Release Material:
Additional Audio Material - 1. Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
2. Audio Interview François Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock
3. 1999 Score by Ashley Irwin Presented in 5.1 Dolby Surround
4. 1997 Score by Paul Zaza Presented in Mono
5. 1940 Radio Play Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Audio Commentary - Patrick McGilligan/ Film Historian
Comparisons - Restoration
Featurettes - 1. "The Sound of Silence: The Making of THE LODGER"
2. "Hitchcock 101 Featurette

DISC 3: THE PARADINE CASE
Additional Release Material:
Additional Audio Material - 1. Isolated Music and Effects Track
2. 1949 Radio Play Starring Joseph Cotton
3. Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock
Audio Commentary - Stephen Rebello & Bill Krohn/ Film Historians
Comparisons - Restoration
Text/Photo Galleries:
Still Galleries

DISC 4: SPELLBOUND
Additional Release Material:
Additional Audio Material - 1. "1948 Radio Play Directed by Alfred Hitchcock"
2. "Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock"
3. "Audio Interview: Film Historian Rudy Belhemer Interviews Composer Miklós Rózsa"
Audio Commentary - Thomas Schatz & Charles Ramirez Berg/ Film Historians
Featurettes - 1. "Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing SPELLBOUND"
2. "A Cinderella Story: Rhonda Fleming"
3. "Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism and Salvador Dali"
Text/Photo Galleries:
Still Gallery

DISC 5: NOTORIOUS
Additional Release Material:
Additional Audio Material - 1. "Isolated Music and Effects Track"
2. "1948 Radio Play Starring Joseph Cotton and Ingrid Bergman"
3. "Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock"
4. "Audio Interview: François Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock"
Audio Commentary - 1. Rick Jewell/ Film Historian
2. Drew Casper/ Film Historian
Comparisons - Restoration
Featurettes: 1. "The Ultimate Romance: The Making of NOTORIOUS"
2. "Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster"
3. "AFI Tribute to Hitchcock"
Text/Photo Galleries:
Still Gallery

DISC 6: YOUNG AND INNOCENT
Additional Release Material:
Additional Audio Material - 1. "Isolated Music and Effects Track"
2. "Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock"
3. " Audio Interview: François Truffaut Interviews Hitchcock"
Audio Commentary - Stephen Rebello & Bill Krohn/ Film Historians
Comparisons - Restoration
Text/Photo Galleries:
Still Gallery

DISC 7: SABOTAGE
Additional Release Material:
Additional Audio Material - 1. "Audio Interview: Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock"
Audio Commentary - Leonard Leff/ Film Historian
Comparisons - Restoration
Text/Photo Galleries:
Still Gallery

DISC 8: LIFEBOAT
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - Drew Casper/ University of Southern California School of Cinema & Television Hitchcock Professor and Film Critic
Featurettes - "The Making of LIFEBOAT"
Trailer - Theatrical Trailer
Text/Photo Galleries:
Still Gallery - Photographs from the Set

Distributor Notes: One of the most influential filmmakers in all of cinema and voted the greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly, MGM Home Entertainment presents an extensive compilation featuring the works of a true Hollywood legend when the Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection arrives on DVD October 14. Nominated collectively for a total of 23 Academy Awards, these films are beautifully restored and remastered and feature titles out of print on DVD for several years. The eight-disc set is highlighted by Hitchcock's Oscar winner for Best Picture Rebecca, starring Joan Fontaine (Suspicion) and Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) in a dark tale of love and obsession. Silver screen siren Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca) makes an appearance in two Hitchcock classics; first alongside Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird) in Spellbound, as a young doctor in pursuit of the truth and next alongside Cary Grant (North by Northwest) in Notorious, a tale of crime, passion and espionage. Rounding out the collection is Peck once again in The Paradine Case as a lawyer defending a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her husband, the spy thriller Sabotage, the romantic murder-mystery drama Young and Innocent, the suspenseful high seas thriller Lifeboat and one of Hitchcock's earliest films, the terrifying whodunit The Lodger featuring an all-new anniversary score.

Source: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Tallulah Bankhead: American Actress
Oscar Homolka: Austrian Character Actor
Ivor Novello: Actor/Composer/Writer
Cary Grant: American actor, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
Ingrid Bergman: Oscar winning Swedish actress, GASLIGHT
Joan Fontaine: Oscar Winning American Actress, SUSPICION, REBECCA
Laurence Olivier: Actor/Director/Producer, HAMLET (1948)
Gregory Peck: Oscar winning American actor, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
William Bendix: American Actor
Walter Slezak: American Character Actor
John Hodiak: American Actor
Sylvia Sidney: American actress, SABOTAGE (1936)
John Loder: British Actor
Desmond Tester: British Actor
Matthew Boulton: 
Ann Todd: British Actress
Charles Laughton: British Actor/Director
Ethel Barrymore: American Actress
Louis Jourdan: French Actor
Marie Ault: British Actress
Malcolm Keen: British Actor
Derrick De Marney: British Actor
Nova Pilbeam: British Teen Actress
Percy Marmont: British Actor
Claude Rains: British actor, CASABLANCA, NOTORIOUS, MR. SKEFFINGTON
George Sanders: Oscar winning actor, ALL ABOUT EVE
Leo G. Carroll: British Actor/"Mr. Waverly"

Alfred Hitchcock: Director/screenwriter/producer, VERTIGO, THE BIRDS, PSYCHO