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 Alfred Hitchcock: Signature Collection (1959)

Also known as: Dial M for Murder/I Confess/Stage Fright/Wrong Man/

UPC/Barcode: 7321900587969   Catalogue No: D 058796   Released: 8th November 2004   Category: Feature, Thriller   Availability: Sell Thru / Rental   Format: DVD / Box Set

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The main feature and some extras have English subtitles. [explanation]

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 allan on 27-09-2007:

6 Main Features: "Dial M for Murder", "I Confess", "North by Northwest", "Stage Flight", "Strangers on a Train (final release version disc 1st of 2 DVD disc)" and "The Wrong Man" all have English subtitles and English subtitles for the hearing impaired. "Strangers on a Train (preview version disc 2nd of 2 DVD disc)" has plain English subtitles (not HOH). All Bonus Materials have English subtitles except the Audio Commentaries on "North by Northwest" and "Strangers on a Train (final release version)". Theatrical Trailers on all films are not subtitled. Alfred Hitchcock's Historical Meeting featurette on "Strangers on a Train" doesn't need subtitles because there is no audio. I gave 4 of 6 films "SSS" execpt North by Northwest and Strangers on a Train.

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Based on: Novel by Patricia Highsmith/plays by Paul Anthelme and Frederick Knott

Story: A collection of six classic films directed by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. In 'Strangers on a Train' (1951), Guy Haines (Farley Granger) and Bruno Antony (Robert Walker) meet by chance in a train carriage. After some idle chat in which it transpires that each man has someone in their lives they would like to dispose of, Bruno proposes that he kills Guy's wife, in return for Guy murdering Bruno's father. Guy is appalled, but when his wife is murdered he realises that Bruno is intent on carrying out the 'deal' whether Guy wants to or not. 'Stage Fright' (1950) is set in London's theatreland. On the run from the police, Jonathan Cooper (Richard Todd) takes refuge in the home of his former girlfriend, RADA student Eve Gill (Jane Wyman). Although Cooper has been spotted fleeing the scene of a murder, he insists that he is innocent. Eve believes his story, but knows that the police won't, so she decides to play detective herself. Marlene Dietrich co-stars as Charlotte Innwood, a seductive star of the stage whom Eve eventually pinpoints as the real murderer. In 'I Confess' (1953), Father Michael Logan (Montgomery Clift) faces a crisis of conscience when his caretaker, Otto Keller (O.E. Hasse), confesses to him that he has committed murder. Logan's dilemma intensifies when he himself comes under suspicion of the killing by police inspector Larrue (Karl Malden). Should Logan break with the sanctity of the confessional to prove his own innocence, or be hanged for a crime he did not commit? Hitchcock keeps us guessing till the very end... In 'Dial M For Murder' (1954), an adaptation of Frederick Knott's successful stage play, former tennis pro Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) hatches a cunning plot to get rid of his socialite wife, Margot (Grace Kelly), when he discovers that she has been unfaithful. Wendice blackmails a corrupt former schoolmate into murdering Margot, but the fellow bungles the job, and Margot, having killed her would-be assailant in self-defence, then finds herself under suspicion of premeditated murder. In 'The Wrong Man' (1957), musician Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda) finds himself imprisoned after being wrongly accused of theft. Allowed out on bail, Manny employs the services of lawyer Frank O'Connor (Anthony Quayle) in his defence, but the strain proves too much for Manny's wife, Rose (Vera Miles), who begins to crack up. Hitchcock follows police procedure rigidly in his account of Manny's arrest, interrogation and imprisonment, based on actual events. In 'North by Northwest' (1959), a masterful mix of comedy and suspense, advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is lunching in a restaurant with his mother when he mistakenly answers a page for one George Kaplan. He soon finds himself on the run across the country, being pursued by enemies of the government who are convinced that he is a secret agent. He finds a friend in Eve Kendall (Eve Marie Saint), who helps conceal him during a perilous train journey - but soon discovers that she is not all she seems.

Cast: Cary Grant, Patrick Allen, John Williams, Vera Miles, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, Anthony Quayle, James Mason, Henry Fonda, Grace Kelly, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Michael Wilding, Ray Milland, Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, George Leigh, Robert Walker, Brian Aherne, Dolly Haas, O.E. Hasse, Farley Granger, Jane Wyman, Harold J. Stone, Marlene Dietrich, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll, Marion Lorne, Judson Pratt, Charles Andre, Ovila Lgar, George Alderson, Esther Minciotti, Patricia Hitchcock, Martin Landau, Richard Todd, Philip Coolidge, Robin Hughes, Gilles Pelletier, John Brown, Alastair Sim, Charles Cooper, John Doucette, Robert Ellenstein, Nehemiah Persoff, Sybil Thorndike, Leo Britt, Josephine Hutchinson, Laurinda Barrett, Laura Elliot, Kay Walsh, Miles Malleson, Robert Gist, Jessie Royce Landis, Norma Connolly, Hector MacGregor, Ken Lynch, Jonathan Hale, Doreen Lang, Joyce Grenfell, Howard St John, Philip Ober, Edward Platt, Norma Varden, Dick Wessel, Les Tremayne, Adam Williams

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Studio: Warner Home Video

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