Widescreen presentations. Rear window: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr. Vertigo: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones. North by northwest: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Jesse Royce Landis. Psycho: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Janet Leigh. The birds: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright. Rear window: based on the short story by Cornell Woolrich. Vertigo, based upon the novel "D'entre les morts" by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Psycho: based on the novel by Robert Bloch. The birds: based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier. Rear window bonus features: "Rear window ethics : an original documentary" featurette; "A conversation with screenwriter John Michael Hayes" featurette; Production photographs; Production notes; Re-release trailer narrated by James Stewart; Theatrical trailer. Vertigo bonus features: "Obsessed with Vertigo : new life for Hitchcock's masterpiece" featurette; Feature commentary with associate producer Herbert Coleman, restoration team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz and other Vertigo participants; Production notes; Theatrical trailers; Foreign censorship ending; The Vertigo archives. North By Northwest bonus features: Commentary by screenwriter Ernest Lehman; Music-only audio track. Psycho bonus features: Production notes; Theatrical trailer; Re-release trailer; Newsreel footage: the release of Psycho; The shower scene with and without music; The Psycho archives; Production photographs; Behind-the-scenes photographs. The Birds bonus features: Deleted scene; The original ending; Storyboard sequence; Tippi Hedren's screen test; "The birds" is coming (Universal international newsreel); Suspense story : National Press Club hears Hitchcock (Universal international newsreel); Production photographs; Production notes, Theatrical trailer.
Contents:
Rear window (115 min.) (1954) -- Vertigo (ca. 130 min.) (1958) -- North by northwest (136 min.) (1959) -- Psycho (109 min.) (1960) -- The birds (120 min.) (1963).
Summary:
In Rear window, A photographer confined to his room with a broken leg suspects a murder has been committed in a nearby apartment. Vertigo is an elaborately constructed murder story and a fascinating study in sexual obsession. A detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a complex plot in which a girl he loves apparently falls to her death. He then meets her double and tries to re-create the image of the woman he has loved but lost in death. In North by northwest, an ad executive is mistaken for a spy by foreign agents. Psycho is a horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother. In The Birds, a small California town is attacked by thousands of birds.
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