The Hitchcock Collection (Volume 2) - 3-DVD Set ( Rich and Strange / Number Seventeen / The Man Who Knew Too Much / Sabotage / Secret Agent / Young and Innocent / The Lady Vanishes / Jamaica Inn ) ( East of Shanghai / Number 17 / I Married a Murderer (The Hidden Power) / Laugh Track: Secret Agent / The Girl Was Young (Coins for Candles) )

The Hitchcock Collection (Volume 2) - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Rich and Strange / Number Seventeen / The Man Who Knew Too Much / Sabotage / Secret Agent / Young and Innocent / The Lady Vanishes / Jamaica Inn
Alternate Title: East of Shanghai / Number 17 / I Married a Murderer (The Hidden Power) / Laugh Track: Secret Agent / The Girl Was Young (Coins for Candles)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
660 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1931 - 1939 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Alfred Hitchcock

Written By:
Alfred Hitchcock
Dale Collins
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Charles Bennett
Joseph Conrad
Campbell Dixon
W. Somerset Maugham
Josephine Tey
Ethel Lina White
Sidney Gilliat
Joan Harrison

Actors:
Henry Kendall ..... Fred Hill
Joan Barry ..... Emily Hill
Percy Marmont ..... Commander Gordon
Betty Amann ..... The Princess
Elsie Randolph ..... The Old Maid
Leon M. Lion ..... Ben
Anne Grey ..... Nora - the Girl
John Stuart ..... Barton - the Detective
Donald Calthrop ..... Brant - Nora's Escort
Barry Jones ..... Henry Doyle
Ann Casson ..... Rose Ackroyd
Henry Caine ..... Mr. Ackroyd
Garry Marsh ..... Sheldrake
Leslie Banks ..... Bob Lawrence
Edna Best ..... Jill Lawrence
Peter Lorre ..... Abbott
Frank Vosper ..... Ramon
Hugh Wakefield ..... Clive
Nova Pilbeam ..... Betty Lawrence
Pierre Fresnay ..... Louis Bernard
Cicely Oates ..... Nurse Agnes
D.A. Clarke-Smith ..... Police Inspector Binstead (as D.A.Clarke Smith)
George Curzon ..... Gibson
Sylvia Sidney ..... Mrs. Verloc
Oskar Homolka ..... Her Husband
Desmond Tester ..... Her Young Brother
John Loder ..... Ted
Joyce Barbour ..... Renee
Matthew Boulton ..... Superintendent Talbot
S.J. Warmington ..... Hollingshead
William Dewhurst ..... The Professor
John Gielgud ..... Richard Ashenden / Brodie
Peter Lorre ..... The General
Madeleine Carroll ..... Elsa Carrington
Robert Young ..... Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont ..... Caypor
Florence Kahn ..... Mrs. Caypor
Charles Carson ..... 'R'
Lilli Palmer ..... Lilli
Nova Pilbeam ..... Erica Burgoyne
Derrick De Marney ..... Robert Tisdall
Percy Marmont ..... Col. Burgoyne
Edward Rigby ..... Old Will
Mary Clare ..... Erica's Aunt
John Longden ..... Det. Insp. Kent
George Curzon ..... Guy
Basil Radford ..... Erica's Uncle
Pamela Carme ..... Christine
George Merritt ..... Det. Sgt. Miller
J.H. Roberts ..... Solicitor
Jerry Verno ..... Lorry Driver
H.F. Maltby ..... Police Sergeant
John Miller ..... Police Constable
Margaret Lockwood ..... Iris Henderson
Michael Redgrave ..... Gilbert
Paul Lukas ..... Dr. Hartz
Dame May Whitty ..... Miss Froy
Cecil Parker ..... Mr. Todhunter
Linden Travers ..... 'Mrs.' Todhunter
Naunton Wayne ..... Caldicott
Basil Radford ..... Charters
Mary Clare ..... Baroness
Emile Boreo ..... Hotel Manager
Googie Withers ..... Blanche
Sally Stewart ..... Julie
Philip Leaver ..... Signor Doppo
Selma Vaz Dias ..... Signora Doppo
Catherine Lacey ..... The Nun
Charles Laughton ..... Sir Humphrey Pengallan
Horace Hodges ..... His Butler
Hay Petrie ..... His Groom
Frederick Piper ..... His Agent
Herbert Lomas ..... His Tenant
Clare Greet ..... His Tenant
William Devlin ..... His Tenant
Jeanne De Casalis ..... His Friend
Mabel Terry-Lewis ..... His Friend
A. Bromley Davenport ..... His Friend
George Curzon ..... His Friend
Basil Radford ..... His Friend
Leslie Banks ..... Joss Merlyn
Marie Ney ..... Patience - His Wife
Maureen O'Hara ..... Mary - His Niece

Synopsis:

Rich and Strange (1931)
Fred and Emily Hill lead a boring life in the London suburbs and decide to escape from it all by asking for their inheritance in advance from a rich relative...

Number Seventeen (1932)
A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
A man and his wife receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.

Sabotage (1936)
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London.

Secret Agent (1936)
During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service.

Young and Innocent (1937)
A film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all her young boyfriends.

The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Travelers on a trans-European train are stopped for the night due to bad weather and are hosted by a local hotel.

Jamaica Inn (1939)
Irish orphan girl Mary is sent to stay with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss in Cornwall. Joss is the landlord of Jamaica Inn and also the head of a gang of ship wreckers...

Rich and Strange (1931)
Fred and Emily Hill are leading a boring life in London. They receive a big inheritance by a rich relative and now they can realize all their dreams. They leave for a cruise behaving as rich people....but this is the beginning of the end. Richness makes them soon forget their love and family.

Number Seventeen (1932)
Detective Gilbert is searching for a necklace robbed by a gang of thieves. In the beginning, the gang is in a house in London, then they are running away from police. It will not be easy for the detective to recover the jewel.

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
While holidaying in Switzerland, Lawrence and his wife Jill are asked by a dying friend, Louis Bernard, to get information hidden in his room to the British Consulate. They get the information, but when they deny having it, their daughter Betty is kidnapped. It turns out that Louis was a Foreign Office spy and the information has to do with the assassination of a foreign dignitary. Having managed to trace his daughter's kidnappers back to London, Lawrence learns that the assassination will take place during a concert at the Albert Hall. It is left to Jill, however, to stop the assassination.

Sabotage (1936)
Mr. Verloc, a cinema owner, is part of a gang of saboteurs in London. He lives with his wife, Sylvya, and her young brother, Stevie. They know nothing about Verloc's secret. Scotland Yard assigns an undercover detective, Ted, to work in a shop near the cinema and investigate the man. The head of the gang assigns Verloc to put a bomb in the metro. The man sends Stevie there with the 'bag'.

Secret Agent (1936)
Novelist-turned-soldier Edgar Brodie is recruited by British intelligence during World War I to ferret out a mysterious German spy and eliminate him. Brodie is given a new identity by his 'handler,' R, and teamed with two professional agents, an amoral, but amusingly deadly assassin known as The General and Elsa Carrington, a beautiful blonde who will pose as his wife and cover for his new identity. After they mistakenly target an innocent old man as the operative and The General cold-bloodily murders him, both Edgar and Elsa question the morality of the mission, especially when The General only finds amusement in the blunder. When they eventually discover the spy's true identity, Elsa is determined to stop her two fellow agents from fulfilling the mission.

Young and Innocent (1937)
Eight years after the famous movie actress, Christine Clay, thought she was rid of him, her husband shows up from nowhere. He's furious that she left him, outraged over her 'silly Reno divorce' and indignant that she is now spending her time with 'boys.' That's his view of things, but she'll never get the chance to give her own side. The quarrel is barely over before her body washes up on the beach near her home. She didn't drown. She was strangled with the belt of a raincoat. The person who finds her is the 'boy' she's supposedly seeing, Robert Tisdall, a young screenwriter, down on his luck. He runs to get help, and two young women see him. It looks as if he is escaping the scene of a crime. Soon, Tisdall is arrested for murder. But before the trial begins, he escapes, determined to find the real killer. Along the way he finds an unexpected ally in Erica Burgoyne, the police constable's daughter.

The Lady Vanishes (1938)
On a train through Europe, Iris Henderson meets the kindly old woman Miss Froy, and they meet several other passengers over the course of their conversation. Iris later wakes up from a nap to discover that Miss Froy is nowhere to be found, and none of the people they met seem to have any recollection of her. A psychiatrist on the train suggests that Miss Froy never existed: Iris was bumped on the head before boarding, and the conversation may have only taken place in her head. However, Iris is certain that something more sinister is going on, and teams up with another acquaintance, the musician Gilbert, to find her before the train reaches its destination.

Jamaica Inn (1939)
Cornwall, early 19th century. 'Queer things' go on at a place called Jamaica Inn. When Mary Yellen, a strong-willed young Irish woman, tells a coachman to drop her off there, he rudely speeds past the place and then stops outside the mansion of Sir Humphrey. She gets out to complain, but the coachman throws her trunk to the ground and drives off. Soon, the seemingly kind Sir Humphrey is escorting the recently orphaned Mary to the mysterious place, where she has come to live with her Aunt Patience. It isn't long before Mary learns that her aunt's husband, Joss, leads a band of cutthroats who cause shipwrecks for profit. Mary will soon learn the truth about the gentlemanly but decadent Sir Humphrey; and about Jem, a handsome young member of the desperate band who is more than what he seems.

Rich and Strange (1931)
Fred and Emily Hill lead a boring life in the London suburbs. They decide to escape from it all by writing to a rich relative and asking for their inheritance in advance. Using the money they go on a world cruise and get into a series of misadventures.

Number Seventeen (1932)
A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
A man and his wife receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.

Sabotage (1936)
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang.

Secret Agent (1936)
During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. He has to kill a German agent. During the mission he meets a fake general first and then Elsa Carrington who helps him in his duty.

Young and Innocent (1937)
A film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all her young boyfriends. The next day, writer Robert Tisdall (who happens to be one such boyfriend) discovers her body on the beach. He runs to call the police, however, two witnesses think that he is the escaping murderer. Robert is arrested, but owing to a mix up at the courthouse, he escapes and goes on the run with a police constable's daughter Erica, determined to prove his innocence.

The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Travelers on a trans-European train are stopped for the night due to bad weather and are hosted by a local hotel. Iris Henderson meets an old woman, Miss Froy who disappears as the journey begins again. Iris, helped by the musician, Gilbert, decides to find her.

Jamaica Inn (1939)
Irish orphan girl Mary is sent to stay with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss in Cornwall. Joss is the landlord of Jamaica Inn and also the head of a gang of ship wreckers who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast. Mary soon finds herself in trouble when she discovers the truth.

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