Alfred Hitchcock - the Legend Begins (4D) $5.00

[TallGuyMe]

I found numerous copies of this 4 disc set in the Walmart $5 dump bin. YMMV of course. Contains 20 titles, with a total running time of > 1600 minutes.

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Title list:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Cheney Vase
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Blackmail (1929)
Champagne (1928)
Easy Virtue (1928)
The Farmer's Wife (1928)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Juno and the Paycock (1930)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Lodger (1927)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The Manxman (1929)
Number Seventeen (1932)
Rich and Strange (1931)
The Ring (1927)
Sabotage (1936)
Secret Agent (1936)
The Skin Game (1931)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Young and Innocent (1937)


http://www.dvdspot.com/dvd.php?d=1887647242

[Jtnguyen12]

Amazon have it for $10.XX. $5 is pretty decent deal ;)

[docdoowop]

Usual public domain Hitch stuff...but it also has 55 minutes of trailers.

[MEJHarrison]

Interesting... With this I could almost complete my Hitchcock collection. I'd only be missing The Pleasure Garden, Downhill, Mary (the German version of Murder!), Waltzes from Vienna, The Paradine Case and all of his non fiction work. And last time I looked (it's been a few years), only The Paradine Case had an R1 release (now OOP).

[toldawg128]

This was posted in the Wal-Mart Bin thread long ago. I bought it there in November.

[theflicker]

I've seen this a couple of times and have been tempted, but I am wary of the quality. I keep meaning to look up reviews, but always forget. Sounds like a not too bad deal from the reviews on Amazon.

[joe_b]

The quality isn't that horrible. I've only watched the first couple discs, but none of the movies had those annoying logos that pop up on many of the budget DVDs releases. There's a fair amount of digital noise, but when they squeeze 4-5 movies on a single disc that's what happens.

Dialogue is mostly audible, despite some accents being thick on a few of the films. I don't think there are any subtitles or closed-captioning. The source prints are decent, although the 2 television episodes looked pretty scratched up. Nice menu design as well.

I thought the set was worth it for "The Lady Vanishes" and "The 39 Steps" alone. An affordable alternative to the expensive Criterion editions. Many of the films are from his silent era work, but 18 movies for $5 is still a great price.

[snorlaxnut]

I looked at the trailers on disc 4. The trailer for The Trouble With Harry is not the original trailer, but the video trailer for the MCA Home Video VHS release of the movie. Is it legal for Mill Creek Entertainment to put that trailer on the DVD?

[TallGuyMe]

This was posted in the Wal-Mart Bin thread long ago. I bought it there in November.

you are so very cool.

[dx23]

you are so very cool.

He is right. This should go in Wal-Mart bin thread. Why should this one have separate thread?

[PopcornTreeCt]

Honest to blog, is that Juno and the Paycock?

[zombeaner]

I managed to pick up The Paradine Case at one of the closing Hollywood Video stores last year.

[oldchuckles]

I looked at the trailers on disc 4. The trailer for The Trouble With Harry is not the original trailer, but the video trailer for the MCA Home Video VHS release of the movie. Is it legal for Mill Creek Entertainment to put that trailer on the DVD?


I may be wrong, but I always thought that trailers needed to be copyrighted (and renewed) the same as films. If not copyrighted in a timely manner, the trailers will also fall into the public domain.

[cgray]

He is right. This should go in Wal-Mart bin thread. Why should this one have separate thread?

I'm glad this has a separate thread. I'm rarely at Walmart, so don't look at that thread. This is a good deal, and could get me to stop by Walmart. If we just had "Walmart Deals," "Amazon Deals," etc., we'd have about 10 threads. Great deals deserve their own threads.

I guess what constitutes a "great deal" is where the contention comes from.

Thanks, OP.

[Autolycus]

I watched Young and Innocent (1937) from this set last night.

The print is pretty good, as is the audio.

The film itself has all the elements of the better known Hitchcock classics - a wrongly accused man seeks to prove his innocence with the help of a beautiful blonde - it even has the usual Hitchcock cameo. I imagine it would be better known if it weren't for the title, which makes it sound like a romantic comedy.

This set is certainly an incredible bargain at just $5.00 for this many movies.

I know that there's a German set of early Hitchcocks which is supposed to have better prints of some of these films but for those on a budget like me, this will do just fine for now!

[namlook]

$8.xx shipped at DDD if you don't want to spend gas and time looking for it.

[MGR]

It's also at Walmart.com for $5
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8044461&sourceid=11157426400609511068
But something is odd.
The "list price" is given as $5.50, and "You Save: $0.50 (9%)"

So if list is 5.50, how come everyone else (including DDD) is so much over list?
(of course, walmart.com might simply have an incorrect list price given on their page)

[CalebAndCo]

$8.xx shipped at DDD if you don't want to spend gas and time looking for it.
< $8 (+ tax if applicable) if you order it from Wal-mart. I did. :)

[SkyDog]

It's also at Walmart.com for $5
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8044461&sourceid=11157426400609511068
But something is odd.
The "list price" is given as $5.50, and "You Save: $0.50 (9%)"

So if list is 5.50, how come everyone else (including DDD) is so much over list?
(of course, walmart.com might simply have an incorrect list price given on their page)

It's not the list price. That was the old price of the dump bin titles before it was lowered to $5.