Universal Studios Home Entertainment is releasing individual versions of four films from the
Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection:
Saboteur (1942) and
Rope (1948) on May 7th,
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) on June 4th and
The Trouble with Harry (1955) on July 2nd.
Plans are also underway to bring six more individual Alfred Hitchcock titles to Blu-ray later this year. Pre-order listings and final cover art are already available for:
The Man Who Knew Too Much,
Marnie,
Torn Curtain,
Topaz,
Frenzy and
Family Plot, although exact street dates have yet to be revealed. The
Hitchcock Essentials Collection, due on June 4th, includes
Rear Window,
Vertigo and
The Birds, but plans for individual releases are still TBD.
Saboteur
Synopsis: This riveting wartime thriller stars Robert Cummings as Barry Kane, a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing his plant. However, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Hitchcock's first film with an all-American cast moves with breakneck speed toward its final heart-pounding confrontation and it remains a suspense classic.
Saboteur features a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track and the following extras:
- Documentary - Saboteur: A Closer Look
- Storyboards
- Alfred Hitchcock's Sketches
- Production Photographs
- Theatrical Trailer
Shadow of a Doubt
Synopsis: A young girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities. Alfred Hitchcock's favorite of all his films, made all the more chilling by the small town ambience supplied by co-writer Thornton Wilder, stars Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, and Hume Cronyn.
Shadow of a Doubt features a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track and the following extras:
- Documentary - Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
- Production Drawings
- Production Photographs
- Theatrical Trailer
Rope
Synopsis: Hitchcock's "filmed play experiment," shot in continuous 10-minute takes, follows two school friends who kill a man for the "intellectual thrill" of it, then hide the body in their apartment and host a party. James Stewart stars as the boys' ex-teacher who uncovers the crime, and Farley Granger and Brandon Shaw star as the murderous chums.
Rope features a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track and the following extras:
- Documentary - Rope Unleashed
- Production Photographs
- Theatrical Trailer
The Trouble with Harry
Synopsis: Harry's trouble is that he's dead, can't stay in one place, and has four people taking credit for his death. Alfred Hitchcock deftly blends suspense and black humor in this film, starring John Forsythe, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick, Jerry Mathers and Shirley MacLaine in her film debut.
The Trouble with Harry features a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track and the following extras:
- Documentary - The Trouble with Harry Isn't Over
- Production Photographs
- Theatrical Trailer