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Note: this review refers to the 14-DVD boxed region and not honest to Volume 1.
No film buff and certainly no film major should be without the boxed plot of 14 DVDs that Laserlight has issued under the umbrella title of . The DVDs are organized in no particular order, some containing only one film, some two, while two of them have a fleshy film and an episode from the used “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” TV series of the 1950s. They all have a trailer of more fresh Hitchcock films and they all have an embarrassingly poor introduction by Tony Curtis, whose connection with these films and with English enunciation is vague at best.
The gems of the collection are “The Man Who Knew Too Worthy” (1934), “The 39 Steps” (1935) and “The Lady Vanishes” (1939) . Of the earlier talkies, “Young and Innocent” has the quintessential space of an innocent man and a girl who somehow winds up with him being chased by the police. “Rich and Uncommon” (1932) is not a thriller but has a shivery sequence as a couple on a sinking boat sees the water seeping into their cabin–just before it stops sinking.
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“Jamaica Inn” (1939) has an over the top performance by Charles Laughton (whose dialogue is hard to follow even on this restored version) and the first appearance of Maureen O’Hara. And for once, Robert Newton plays the Righteous Guy. “Sabotage” (1936) is based on a Joseph Conrad story and has the renowned scene of the boy on a bus with a bomb on his lap. (Later, Hitchcock commented he should not have let it go off.) “Secret Agent” (1936) gives us a young John Gielgud as a gape who kills the unfavorable man, Peter Lorre in a very bizarre role (helped or hindered by his drug-taking on and off the state), and the suavest villain of them all–Robert Young!
“Number 17″ (1932) is one of the films Hitchcock did not want to film, and he gave us a broad spoof on the genre of the spooky houses, diamond smugglers, and derring-do. “Assassinate” (1930) boasts a well-kept cold Herbert Marshall as a jurist who reluctantly says guilty at a woman’s assassinate trial and then spends the rest of the film proving her innocent.
More enthralling is “Blackmail” (1929), which existed in still and talking versions. We have the latter and the often commented upon scene in which Hitchcock plays with the soundtrack so that only the word “knife” can be heard during the last portion of a long monologue. Another trick he was forced into was the expend of a British actress reading out the lines of the foreign-born heroine.
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“The Skin Game” (1931) is weakest of the talkies included in this set; and indeed the dialogue is almost impossible to understand.
Of the silents, “The Lodger” (1927) is in the worst shape but it shows very clearly the influence of the quiet German film on Hitchcock’s early (and later) technique. Of course the long takes of a face staring into the camera are comical today; but this is an historical document and demands a obvious degree of detachment. “The Ring” (1927) does strain credibility, while it shows Hitchcock’s esteem for expose business of any sort, even circus freakshows and boxing.
“The Manxman” (1929) is boring and predictable with its like triangle, a misreported death, and the return of the husband. “Easy Virtue” (1927) is based on a Noel Coward play, which it follows only half map through the film, and shows a sympathetic opinion of the “woman with a past”–in this case, a divorce–together with a condemnation of those who cannot accumulate her. More Social Studies than edifying drama here.
However, “The Farmer’s Wife” (1928) is quite comical once the somewhat jerky widower offers himself to three unlikely women while his housekeeper loves him in silence and has to relieve him in his wooing spree.
One feature of these DVDs you will probably not need is the ability to hear the talkies in English, Spanish, Chinese or Japanese; or to subtitle the dialogue cards in the silents in the last three languages.
A uncommon feature of these DVDs is that they immediately seize you into the film rather than into the menu. This should be changed in future printings.
So all in all, I would guess you would want to leer some of the talkies many, many times, some of the silents less often, and some of them never again. But once more, this is a very essential place for students and objective expressionless lovers of film history, especially the share played in that history by Hitchcock.
These DVDs (and The AH Collection II) are quite a salubrious value. I�m a titanic Hitchcock fan, and before I bought them I had only seen cheapo VHS versions of a few of the movies (except for The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps, of which I had the Criterion editions) . Anyway, I got the two box sets here on Amazon (they�re also now available in one mammoth place with 14 DVDs), and I�ve watched through all of them.
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The first thing you need to know, and then promptly forget about, is that Tony Curtis provides an introduction to each DVD, and man is it brutal! There are a lot of pictures that were publicity stills for his later movies or his TV series, and Tony says things like, �Hitch liked to shock people. You know what it�s like when you have a well-behaved twist at the waste of a film? Hitch had a lot of those. Plain!� His comments rarely characterize to the movie. Anyway, I watched all the intros, but it was painful.
Several of the DVDs also have trailers for later Hitchcock films, all in foul condition. Which makes the transfers of the exact movies all that considerable better, since they�re quite acceptable. The worst transfer is the earliest film, The Lodger, and the worst movies are The Manxman and Easy Virtue. Besides that, it was a pleasure watching them. None of the films are at the level of the two Criterion releases, and there are certainly lines and scratches throughout, but you can bask in them. The sound is generally okay�very puny screeching as I retract from the VHS copies I�ve seen. There�s really no bass response at all, but there�s not a whole lot of scratching either.
I contemplate (a) except for the two Criterion ones, they�re the best copies out there, (b) if you�re a Hitchcock fan, they�re required viewing and you won�t be disappointed in the movies themselves, and (c) at about $… a DVD, and with three or so of the discs containing a second, soundless film (none of the silents stand alone on a DVD) and two of the discs containing an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (in probably the worst condition you�ve ever seen them, especially if you�ve been cross by the Universal-released episodes), they�re a spacious bargain.
Note, these aren�t all of Hitchcock�s early movies. Several, such as Champagne and Juno and the Paycock, aren�t out on DVD at all. Also tag that these aren�t all mystery/suspense films. The Farmer�s Wife is a comedy, The Ring is a boxing/love anecdote, Easy Virtue, Skin Game, and The Manxman are melodramas, and Jamaica Inn is a period fraction. But it�s smart to execute one of these and then peer, say, The 39 Steps and seek an early witness into the director Hitch would later become.
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One painful caveat: The Farmer�s Wife, a mute comedy, was quite piquant, but it was also nearly an hour longer than its 97-minute listed running time. Everytime I concept the farmer would finally settle a wife, another position twist came up. After 2+ hours I started to think hitting the FF button. I read somewhere that it�s a celebrated error in tranquil films to have them bustle at the nefarious speed–unfortunately this one runs too uninteresting. If you can forego the music, I�d reflect watching it in a dinky rapid forward mode!
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