ALFRED HITCHCOCK COLLECTION OF 20
The Chaney vase and The sorcerer's apprentice were episodes in the television series, Alfred Hitchcock presents, broadcast between 1955 and 1962. Feature films were originally released between 1926 and 1939.
Bonus feature: Sir Alfred Hitchcock's movie trailers spanning his career (55 min.)
DISC 1
THE LADY VANISHES (1938)
Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
THE FARMER'S WIFE (1928)
Stars: Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker
After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry, but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
THE MANXMAN (1929)
Stars: Anny Ondra, Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen
A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.
THE CHANEY VASE (TV)
Stars: Patricia Collinge, Darren McGavin
When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE (TV)
Stars: Diana Dors, Brandon De Wilde
A magician takes a simple-minded runaway under his wing. But the magician's wife has a sinister idea for the easily manipulated young man.
DISC 2
RICH AND STRANGE (1931)
Stars: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont
Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS (1935)
Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage Agent. But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.
SECRET AGENT (1936)
Stars: John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young
After three British Agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
CHAMPAGNE (1928)
Stars: Betty Balfour, Jean Bradin, Ferdinand von Alten
A spoiled heiress defies her father by running off to marry her lover. However, Daddy has a few tricks up his sleeve.
BLACKMAIL (1939)
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart
John Ingram, successful oil-field firefighter, is really a chain-gang escapee. A "friend" from John's past, who gradually works up to a blackmail attempt under a promise to get Ingram cleared...but instead has him sent back to the old
chain gang.
DISC 3
EASY VIRTUE (1928)
Stars: Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams
A recently divorced woman hides her scandalous past from her new husband and his family.
JAMAICA INN (1939)
Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton
In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
THE LODGER (1927)
Stars: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault
A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
THE RING (1927)
Stars: Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter
Two boxers compete for the love of a woman.
YOUNG AND INNOCENT (1937)
Stars: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
A man on the run from a murder charge enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause.
DISC 4
JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK (1930)
Stars: Sara Allgood, Edward Chapman, Barry Fitzgerald
During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.
SABOTAGE (1936)
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
THE SKIN GAME (1931)
Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, C.V. France
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
NUMBER SEVENTEEN (1932)
Stars: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart
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)
Stars: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre
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.