Home Entertainment
June 7, 2004
Eight Classics From “The Greatest Director Of All Time*” - Alfred Hitchcock - Released By Warner Home Video
(June 7, 2004 – Burbank, CA) – On September 7, Warner Home Video will celebrate Alfred Hitchcock -- the legendary “Master of Suspense,” whose illustrious motion picture career spanned more than a half century -- with DVD debuts of seven of his classic films, “Dial M for Murder,” “Foreign Correspondent,” “Suspicion,” “The Wrong Man,” “Stage Fright,” “I Confess,” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” Each film will contain a new documentary created for the DVD. In addition, a remastered Two-Disc Special Edition of “Strangers on a Train” including expanded bonus features will also be available.
The films will be available individually or as part of a nine-film deluxe boxed set, “The Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection,” which will also include the previously released “North by Northwest Special Edition.” The individual titles are each priced at $19.97 SRP and “Strangers on a Train: Two-Disc Special Edition” will be available for $26.99 SRP. The deluxe boxed set is priced at $99.92 SRP.
“Strangers on a Train,” digitally remastered in a Two-Disc Special Edition DVD, will feature expanded bonus content, including the original-release version of the film as well as the preview version uncovered in 1991 and theatrically issued in 1996. Other bonuses include commentary by director Peter Bogdanovich, “Psycho” screenwriter Joseph Stephano, “Strangers on a Train” author Patricia Highsmith and biographer Andrew Wilson, an appreciation by “The Sixth Sense” director M. Night Shyamalan, plus a new making-of documentary with Farley Granger, film historian Richard Schickel, Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell and other Hitchcock family members and colleagues recalling the making of this suspense landmark, and other intriguing bonus features.
With operations in 89 international territories Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video’s film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.
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