Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Following his great success with " North by Northwest" director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) makes a daring choice for his next project an adaptation of Robert Bloch&s novel " Psycho" When the studio refuses to back the picture Hitchcock decides to pay for it himself in exchange for a percentage of the profits His wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) has serious reservations about the film but supports him nonetheless Still the production strains the couple&s marriage ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Birds All About The Birds
- Making Of Tippi Hedren&s Screen Test Universal News Reel Stories x 2 Storyboard Sequence Deleted Scene (Script Pages) Alternative Ending (Sketches & Storyboards) Production Photographs Family Plot Plotting Family Plot
- Making Of Storyboards Frenzy The Story Of Frenzy
- Making Of The Man Who Knew Too Much The Making Of The Man Who Knew Too Much Trailer Compilation " Marnie" The Trouble With Marnie
- Making Of Production Photographs Rear Window Rear Window Ethics Remembering & Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
- Making Of Featurette Trailer Compilation Saboteur A Closer Look
- Making Of Storyboards Hitchcock Sketches Shadow Of A Doubt Beyond Doubt The Making Of Hitchcock&s Favourite Film Production Drawings Topaz An Appreciation by Film Critic Historian Leonard Maltin
- Making Of Alternative Endings x 3
- Duel Airport Suicide Storyboards Production Photographs Torn Curtain Torn Curtain Rising
- Making Of Scenes Scored By Composer Bernard Herrmann The Trouble With Harry The Trouble With Harry Isn&t Over
- Making Of Trailer Compilation Rope Rope Unleashed
- Making Of Trailer Compilation Vertigo Obsessed with Vertigo Feature Commentary Cast & Filmmakers Production Notes Psycho Masters Of Cinema Alfred Hitchcock American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock Production Notes Cast & Filmmakers Theatrical Trailers Art Gallery










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Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker Hitchcock made his name as director of the spy movie He returned repeatedly to the genre from the British classics of the 1930s including The 39 Steps & The Lady Vanishes through wartime Hollywood films Foreign Correspondent & Saboteur to the Cold War tracts North by Northwest Torn Curtain & his unmade film The Short Night Chapman's close reading of these films demonstrates the development of Hitchcock's own style as well as how the spy genre as a whole responded to changing political & cultural contexts from the threat of Nazism in the 1930s & 40s to the atom spies & double agents of the post-war world ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play The House of Hitchcock’ is the ultimate collector’s edition presented in a deluxe box with an impressive lenticular front design This is the most complete collection of Hitchcock films ever released in the UK incorporating films from Universal Pictures Paramount & Warner Bros This box set contains 18 iconic films from the acclaimed director’s illustrious career including Psycho The Birds Rear Window Vertigo & North by Northwest 15 Hours of Bonus Features Exclusive Collectible Memorabilia including blueprints of the infamous Psycho House original storyboards from some of Hitchcock’s finest movies movie poster artcards for all the films & a booklet about the man himself Universally recognised as the Master of Suspense the legendary Alfred Hitchcock directed some of cinema’s most thrilling & unforgettable classics This box set
Includes: Saboteur Shadow Of A Doubt Rope Strangers On A Train Dial M For Murder Rear Window To Catch A Thief The Trouble With Harry The Man Who Knew Too Much Vertigo North By Northwest Psycho The Birds Marnie Torn Curtain Topaz Frenzy Family Plot Bonus features Documentaries Expert commentaries Interviews Screen tests Storyboards And much more! Language English Subtitles English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 18
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Oscar Winners Anthony Hopkins & Helen Mirren are spellbinding in this provocative story about the making of one of cinema&s most iconic films Plagued by both a reckless ego & nagging self-doubt Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock (Hopkins) becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won&t back Determined he risks his reputation his home & even the love of his wife Alma (Mirren) as he sets out to make the film Ultimately Hitch wins Alma over & the two collaborate to create an enduring masterpiece
- Psycho Also starring Scarlett Johansson Toni Collette & Jessica Biel Special Features Audio Description Hitchcock Cell Phone PSAThe Story The Cast Danny Elfman Maestro Hitch & Alma Remembering Hitchcock Theatrical Trailer Actors Anthony Hopkins Helen Mirren Scarlett Johansson Danny Huston Toni Collette Michael Stuhlbarg Michael Wincott Jessica Biel James D& Arcy Richard Portnow Kurtwood Smith Ralph Macchio Kai Lennox Tara Summers & Wallace Langham Director Sacha Gervasi Certificate 12 years & over Year 2012 Languages English
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Volume 2 of Alfred Hitchcock&s greatest films including The Birds Vertigo Frenzy Topaz Marnie Torn Curtain & Family Plot Vertigo (1958) A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the activities of an old friend&s wife whilst becoming dangerously obsessed with her The Birds (1963) A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a Northern California town that takes a bizarre turn when birds of all kinds begin to attack people in increasing numbers & with increasing viciousness Marnie (1964) Mark marries Marnie although she is a thief & possesses serious psychological problems Mark tries to help her confront & resolve the issues Torn Curtain (1966) An American scientist defects to East Germany as part of a cloak & dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin & has to figure out a plan to escape back West Topaz (1969) A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in Cold War politics first uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis & then back to France to break up a Russian spy ring Frenzy (1972) A serial killer is murdering women in London with a necktie the police have a suspect but he isn&t the correct man Family Plot (1976) Suspense film about a phony psychiccon artist & her taxi driverprivate investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while following a missing heir in California Actors James Stewart Kim Novak Tippi Hedren Sean Connery & Paul Newman Director Alfred Hitchcock Certificate 18 years & over Year 1958 ; 1963 ; 1964 ; 1966 ; 1969 ; 1972 ; 1976 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages German ; French ; Italian ; Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 14 hours & 16 minutes (approx)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass For Arthur Dent who has only just had his house demolished that morning this seems already to be more than he can cope with Sadly however the weekend has only just begun & the Galaxy is a very very very large & startling place The Restaurant at the End of the Universe When all questions of space time matter adn the nature of being have been resolved only one question remains
- ' Where shall we have dinner?' The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience & for once there is no morning after to worry about Life the Universe & Everything In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth However just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse they suddenly do He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggling big & bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair So Long & Thanks for All the Fish Just as Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in its dickiest state he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all but which 3976000 people will find oddly familiar They go in search of God's Final Message to His Creation & in a dramatic break with tradition actually find it
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Arthur Dent&s day couldn&t get much worse Not only is his home about to be demolished but Earth itself is to be obliterated in order to make way for an intergalactic highway Luckily Arthur is saved from almost certain death by his friend Ford Prefect who is actually an alien ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The story of the German Resistance is one that is rarely heard but the bravery of the conspirators despite their lack of success in stopping Hitler in his tracks is nothing short of heroic In 1944 Operation Valkyrie & Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg got within striking distance of assassinating the Fuhrer This programme one of three focussing on the career of Adolf Hitler examines the attempted July Bomb Plot ahead of the release of the film Valkyrie (starring Tom Cruise) later this year 1 Introduction 2 Rise To Power 3 Early Warnings 4 The Conspirators 5 Man On A Mission 6 Trial & Retribution Language English Subtitles English Number of discs 1 ...

Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1936-1945 Nemesis is the concluding second volume of one of the greatest biographies of modern times No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; & no period is more important than the Second World War Beginning with Hitler's startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhineland occupation from Czechoslovakia to Poland; addressing crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism; exploring the Holocaust & the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively; & ending nine years later with the suicide in the Berlin bunker Kershaw allows us as never before to understand Hitler's motivation & impact ' Magisterial anyone who wishes to understand the third reich must read Kershaw for no on has done more to lay bare Hitler's morbid psyche' Niall Ferguson Sunday Telegraph ' An achievement of the very highest order a marvellous book' Michael Burleigh Financial Times ' No previous biographer has examined Hitler's devilishness in Kershaw's detail his book is so comprehensive so richly documented & so judicious that it will not soon be superseded' Daniel Johnson Daily Telegraph Ian Kershaw's other books include Hitler 1936-1945 Nemesis Making Friends with Hitler Fateful Choices Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-4 & The End Hitler's Germany 1944-45 Hitler 1936-1945 Nemesis received the Wolfson History Prize & the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for Political Book of the Year & was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize ...