Alfred Hitchcock: The British Years

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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 Ł59.99.

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

Other 'Alfred Hitchcock: The British Years' content

Jamaica Inn

Hitchcock's final film to be produced in Britain is a rather disappointing adaptation of du Maurier's gothic novel...

Young And Innocent

A man tries to prove his innocence in Hitchcock's Young and Innocent whish is now available as part of Network's Alfred Hitchcock: The British Years box-set...

Sabotage

This early Hitchcock films about a gang of foreign saboteurs who are plotting to put a bomb on an underground train is now available as part of Network's Alfred Hitchcock: The British Years box-set...

Secret Agent

Noel Megahey reviews Hitchcock's 1936 espionage thriller, starring John Geilgud and Peter Lorre as an unlikely pair of British secret agents on the trail of a German agent in Switzerland. Released as part of Network's Alfred Hitchcock: The British Years collection.

The 39 Steps

One of the finest comedy-thrillers arrives on DVD once again...

Downhill

This silent film by Alfred Hitchcock is based on a play by Constance Collier and is part of Network DVD's Alfred Hitchcock: The British Years collection...

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Remade for Hollywood in 1956, Hitchcock’s 1934 British original, featuring a delightfully menacing performance by Peter Lorre, is often considered the better of the two versions of this classic spy thriller.

The Lodger

Inspired by a book on Jack the Ripper of the same name, Hitchcock's The Lodger is now available as part of Network's Alfred Hitchcock: The British Years box-set...

The Pleasure Garden

Alfred Hitchcock’s action-filled melodrama about a selfish London chorus girl’s pursuit of pleasure to a point where it nearly causes her death is now available as part of Network’s Alfred Hitchcock: The British Years box-set…