Bibliograph

Alfred Hitchcock, the essentials collection, Universal Studios Entertainment ; Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc

Type

Label

Alfred Hitchcock, the essentials collection, Universal Studios Entertainment ; Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rear window & Vertigo: MPAA rating: PG. The Birds: MPAA rating: PG-13. Psycho: MPAA rating: R. North by northwest: Not rated

Main title

Alfred Hitchcock

Oclc number

769023594

Responsibility statement

Universal Studios Entertainment ; Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc

Runtime

Sub title

the essentials collection

Summary

Disc 1 : Rear window : based on the short story by Cornell Woolrich. A photographer confined to his room with a broken leg suspects a murder has been committed in a nearby apartmentDisc 2 : Vertigo : based upon the novel "D'entre les morts" by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Vertigo is an elaborately constructed murder story and a fascinating study in sexual obsession. A detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a complex plot in which a girl he loves apparently falls to her death. He then meets her double and tries to re-create the image of the woman he has loved but lost in deathDisc 3 : In North by northwest, an ad executive is mistaken for a spy by foreign agentsDisc 4 : Psycho: based on the novel by Robert Bloch. Psycho is a horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his motherDisc 5 : The Birds: based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier. In The Birds, a small California town is attacked by thousands of birds

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Essentials collection, Rear window ; Vertigo ; North by Northwest ; Psycho ; The Birds

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