Excited for Strangers On A Train. Hope they don't screw up the 2-D transfer.

The Universal set is really nice looking and I'd love to have it but I think I'll have to wait for a sale or a price drop. Can't see myself paying $300 for it.

Jesus H. Fuck

Yeah, I can't see paying that much for it. I really wish they included Blackmail and The Lodger (if that was possible at all).

At least they didn't stick Under Capricorn in the set. That was the weakest Hitchcock film I've seen.

If anything I might just wait and see if they do individual releases. I like Hitchcock but realistically I mostly will probably watch releases like Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, and The Birds the most anyways.

If you're region-free, Network (UK) will be releasing the restored Lodger on Blu-ray on 9/24.

Amazon pre-order price for Masterpiece box - $209.99

I'll be pretty tempted if/once this shows up in my Gold Box.

If I pre-order now, it'll never show up in my Gold Box right?

...good god...I can't even afford that in my life right now. But...i want that.

Extras/specs on The Lodger:

Amazon UK pre-order

I'll keep the MGM disc for the extras, but I'm terrifically excited for this one!

They must be joking with that list price for the box set. I won't touch it for more than $150 and if it doesn't get there I'll just wait for individual releases on some of them.

While I'd obviously prefer the sticker price to be lower, $13.33 or whatever it shakes out to per movie isn't completely unreasonable. Of course, I don't want to pay $13.33 to suffer through Topaz again, and I already have North by Northwest, but whatever.

I admittedly don't understand the gross disparity in price between the 2005 DVD set, which carried an MSRP of $120 when released, and this Blu-ray set which is two and a half times as expensive. I know Blu-ray carries a premium, and there's inflation and all that, but 2.5X is preeeeeeetty insane.

The only thing I can figure is that Universal knows it's not going to move nearly as many copies of the Blu-ray set as it did on DVD, they know the only people who are going to buy this are film nuts, and they know we'll pay pretty much whatever they ask to get it. Dangling "limited edition" in front of us ensures we won't have an easy time waiting for a price drop either (although I agree that cheaper, individual releases for at least some of these films are an inevitability).

Universal's not wrong, though. I'll pay through the nose for this set without complaining too much. Can't fault 'em for charging what the market will bear.

Instead of North by Northwest, I wish they'd licensed The Wrong Man, Stage Fright, or I Confess from Warner, or maybe Under Capricorn from Image, obviously preferring to see something that hasn't already been released on Blu-ray. Maybe Warner offered it to 'em cheap thinking that they already got their money's worth out of it on Blu-ray, or maybe the marquee value with everything else in the collection was too much to resist.

I'm hoping the high SRP means they put in the time and effort to have proper restoration done on these.

Good point. Too many times in the past a high profile catalog release + Universal = a significant fuck up. Definitely need to wait for feedback from actual owners of the set and not just comments from reviewers.

That's what I'm hoping. As much as I love Hitchcock, I'm gonna have to wait and see what the end results are, based on Universal's reputation alone.

I'm probably going to end up going with the UK set because I already have NXNW, the packaging is way better, and it's cheaper.

So expensive

I'm curious at what point did $20 a movie become out of line? So Dial M for Murder at $35.99 must be a real insult.

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$20 list for individual catalog titles is fine, but when they're collected in a box set, one expects a more substantial discount. In comparison, the Bond box includes 22 films for the same $300 list-price.

$35 for a 3D disc doesn't strike me as unreasonable. I wish they had commissioned a commentary track though.

Strangers On a Train pre-order up on Amazon ($13.99)

http://www.amazon.com/Strangers-On-T.../dp/B008DMQDZS

Dial M for Murder is still missing.

I understand your wishes and thoughts, but North By Northwest from a marketing standpoint trumps those four titles COMBINED and they didn't have to do any additional work on the title, just lump it into the box set. Someone also suggested that NBNW came about possibly because of a swap that allowed Universal's Spartacus in the recent Warner Kubrick box set. Don't know if that's true, but sounds plausible.

I'll wait for individual titles versus the Box Set. The Birds is already up for pre-order on Amazon and I've waited this long for Vertigo and Rear Window, so what's another year? And that's assuming they're worth purchasing in the first place ... no certain bet since Universal is involved.

Is SoaT going to have both cuts, or do I need to keep my DVD. Again.

The Alfred Hitchcock box showed up in my quick picks today at $199.49, along with Stangers on a Train for $13.29.

The press release lists "Preview Version" among the features for Strangers On A Train, so yes, it includes everything from the Special Edition DVD.

That Birds listing is only a place-holder and has been up for several years, so I wouldn't view it as any sort of confirmation.