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14 ICONIC THRILLERS FROM THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON BLU-RAY\u2122 CELEBRATING UNIVERSAL\u2019S 100TH ANNIVERSARY\u00a0 ALFRED HITCHCOCK: THE MASTERPIECE COLLECTION<\/strong>
\n THE ULTIMATE BOX SET WITH 14 FILMS INCLUDING 13 NEVER BEFORE ON BLU-RAY\u2122\u00a0 PLUS OVER 15 HOURS OF BONUS FEATURES \u2013 AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3 FOR A LIMITED\u00a0 TIME ONLY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fourteen of the most acclaimed films by legendary director Alfred Hitchcock come together on Blu-rayTM for the first time ever when Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection is released on October 3, 2012 for a limited time only. Digitally restored from high-quality film elements and presented in perfect high-definition picture and sound, Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection brings the Master of Suspense\u2019s best work to home audiences as its never been seen before.<\/p>\n

This ultimate collectors set features 13 films previously unavailable on Blu-rayTM plus hours of documentaries, filmmaker commentaries, interviews, screen tests, trailers and much more, including a new documentary \u201cThe Birds, Hitchcock\u2019s Monster Movie,\u201d enough to satisfy even the most ardent Hitchcock fan.<\/p>\n

Spanning three-and-a-half decades of the director\u2019s prolific career, Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection includes the classic thrillers Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Marnie, Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, The Trouble with Harry, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy and Family Plot. The films feature performances from some of Hollywood\u2019s biggest stars, including James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Julie Andrews, Paul Newman, Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Tippi Hedren and Kim Novak.
\nOne of the most influential and revered cinematic innovators of all time, Alfred Hitchcock had a profound and lasting impact on modern moviemaking. Renowned for his signature wit, thrilling plots, pioneering camerawork and original editing style, Hitchcock\u2019s masterful ability to wring every drop of suspense out of each scene is still studied and emulated by filmmakers around the world.<\/p>\n

Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection is the ideal gift for film lovers, Hitchcock fans\u2014or anyone who wants to discover for themselves what makes him the undisputed Master of Suspense.<\/p>\n

Synopses and Bonus Features
\nSaboteur (1942)
\nThis riveting wartime thriller stars Robert Cummings as a factory worker who is falsely accused of sabotage and\u00a0 sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase to clear his name.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 Saboteur: A Closer Look
\n\u2022 Storyboards: The Statue of Liberty Sequence
\n\u2022 Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s Sketches
\n\u2022 Production Photographs
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer
\nShadow of a Doubt (1943)
\nThis thriller about a young woman (Teresa Wright) who comes to suspect that the uncle (Joseph Cotton) she idolises may in fact be a murderer was considered Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s personal favorite.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock\u2019s Favorite Film
\n\u2022 Production Drawings by Art Director Robert Boyle
\n\u2022 Production Photographs
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer
\nRope (1948)
\nTwo friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim’s family and friends while their former teacher (James Stewart) becomes increasingly suspicious that his students have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 Rope Unleashed
\n\u2022 Production Photographs
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer
\nRear Window (1954)
\nJames Stewart and Grace Kelly star in this voyeuristic masterpiece about a photographer who becomes obsessed with watching his neighbours and discovers a possible murder.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 Rear Window Ethics: An Original Documentary
\n\u2022 A Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael Hayes
\n\u2022 Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of The Master
\n\u2022 Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
\n\u2022 Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts
\n\u2022 Masters of Cinema
\n\u2022 Feature Commentary with John Fawell, author of Hitchcock\u2019s Rear Window: The Well-Made Film
\n\u2022 Production Photographs
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer
\n\u2022 Re-Release Trailer Narrated by James Stewart
\n\u2022 Blu-ray exclusives: BD Live, Pocket Blu
\nThe Trouble with Harry (1955)
\nWhile no one really minds that Harry is dead, everyone has a different idea about what should be done with his body in this quirky mystery starring Shirley MacLaine and John Forsythe.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 The Trouble with Harry Isn\u2019t Over
\n\u2022 Production Photographs
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer
\nThe Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
\nJames Stewart and Doris Day star as a vacationing American couple who accidentally become involved in an international assassination plot and must take matters into their own hands after their son is kidnapped.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much
\n\u2022 Production Photographs
\n\u2022 Trailers
\nVertigo (1958)
\nJames Stewart and Kim Novak star in this dizzying web of mistaken identity, passion and murder involving an acrophobic detective and the mysterious blonde he rescues from the San Francisco bay.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock\u2019s Masterpiece
\n\u2022 Partners in Crime: Hitchcock\u2019s Collaborators
\n\u2022 Hitchcock \/ Truffaut Interview Excerpts
\n\u2022 Foreign Censorship Ending
\n\u2022 The Vertigo Archives
\n\u2022 Feature Commentary with Associate Producer Herbert Coleman, Restoration Team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz, and Other Vertigo Participants
\n\u2022 Feature Commentary with Director William Friedkin
\n\u2022 100 Years of Universal: The Lew Wasserman Era
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer
\n\u2022 Restoration Theatrical Trailer
\n\u2022 BD Live, Pocket Blu (Blu-ray Exclusive)
\nPsycho (1960)
\nAnthony Perkins and Janet Leigh star in this shocking classic about an unsuspecting visitor to the Bates Motel who falls prey to one of cinema\u2019s most notorious psychopaths, Norman Bates.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 The Making of Psycho
\n\u2022 Psycho Sound
\n\u2022 In The Master\u2019s Shadow: Hitchcock\u2019s Legacy
\n\u2022 Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts
\n\u2022 Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho
\n\u2022 The Shower Scene: With and Without Music
\n\u2022 The Shower Scene: Storyboards by Saul Bass
\n\u2022 The Psycho Archives
\n\u2022 Posters and Psycho Ads
\n\u2022 Lobby Cards
\n\u2022 Behind-the-Scenes Photographs
\n\u2022 Production Photographs
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer
\n\u2022 Re-release Trailers
\n\u2022 Feature Commentary with Stephen Rebello (author of Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho)
\nThe Birds (1963)
\n\u2018Tippi\u2019 Hedren and Rod Taylor star in this horrific tale of nature gone berserk when thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 Deleted Scene
\n\u2022 Original Ending
\n\u2022 The Birds: Hitchcock\u2019s Monster Movie \u2013 New! (Blu-ray Exclusive)
\n\u2022 All About The Birds
\n\u2022 Storyboards
\n\u2022 Tippi Hedren\u2019s Screen Test
\n\u2022 Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts
\n\u2022 The Birds Is Coming (Universal International Newsreel)
\n\u2022 Suspense Story: National Press Club Hears Hitchcock (Universal International Newsreel)
\n\u2022 Production Photographs
\n\u2022 100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics
\n\u2022 100 Years of Universal: The Lot
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer
\n\u2022 BD Live, Pocket Blu (Blu-ray Exclusive)
\nMarnie (1964)
\n\u2018Tippi\u2019 Hedren stars as Marnie, a compulsive liar and thief, who winds up marrying the very man (Sean Connery) she attempts to rob in this psychological thriller that races to an inescapable conclusion.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 The Trouble with Marnie
\n\u2022 The Marnie Archives
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer
\nTorn Curtain (1966)
\nPaul Newman and Julie Andrews star in this action-packed thriller about a world-famous scientist who goes undercover to get top-secret information and ends up running for his life from enemy agents.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 Torn Curtain Rising
\n\u2022 Scenes Scored by Bernard Herrmann
\n\u2022 Production Photographs
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer
\nTopaz (1969)
\nJohn Forsythe stars as an American CIA agent who hires a French operative to travel to Cuba and investigate rumors of Russian missiles and a spy codenamed \u201cTopaz\u201d.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 Alternate Endings
\n\u2022 Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Historian and Critic Leonard Maltin
\n\u2022 Storyboards: The Mendozas
\n\u2022 Production Photographs
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer
\nFrenzy (1972)
\nIn this morbid blend of horror and wit, the \u201cNecktie Murderer\u201d has the London Police on red alert and an innocent man (Jon Finch) is on a desperate quest to find the real criminal and clear his own name.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 The Story of Frenzy
\n\u2022 Production Photographs
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer
\nFamily Plot (1976)
\nChaos ensues in this suspense-comedy when a phony psychic and her not-so-bright boyfriend cross paths with a slick diamond merchant and his beautiful girlfriend.
\nBonus Features:
\n\u2022 Plotting Family Plot
\n\u2022 Storyboards: The Chase Scene
\n\u2022 Production Photographs
\n\u2022 Theatrical Trailer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

14 ICONIC THRILLERS FROM THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON BLU-RAY\u2122 CELEBRATING UNIVERSAL\u2019S 100TH ANNIVERSARY\u00a0 ALFRED HITCHCOCK: THE MASTERPIECE COLLECTION THE ULTIMATE BOX SET WITH 14 FILMS INCLUDING 13 NEVER BEFORE ON BLU-RAY\u2122\u00a0 PLUS OVER 15 HOURS OF BONUS FEATURES \u2013 AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3 FOR A LIMITED\u00a0 TIME ONLY Fourteen<\/p>\n

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