Alfred Hitchcock The British Years DVD box set. The collection on 10 dvd's. DELIVERED FREE IN THE UK. Box set containing ten of Hitchcock's most significant pre-war British films. 'The Pleasure Garden' (1925) Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty,John Stuart. 'The Lodger' (1926), Ivor Novello, Hitchcock's third feature, the foggy streets of London have fallen prey to the 'Avenger' - an unknown killer whose victims are all blonde women. 'Downhill' (1927) Novello, Robin Irvine. 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' (1934) was the first of Hitchcock's classic British spy thrillers. Nova Pilbeam, Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Pierre Fresnay. Peter Lorre makes his English-speaking debut as the charming but psychotic kidnapper, Abbott. Hitchcock later made a big-budget, colour remake of the film with James Stewart and Doris Day. 'The 39 Steps' (1935), the most celebrated of Hitchcock's British thrillers, adapted from John Buchan's novel.Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. Their adventure eventually leads them to a music hall, where the secret of the 39 steps is revealed. 'Secret Agent' (1936) tells the story of British soldier and novelist Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud), who returns home during WWI to find that a government agency has faked a report of his death. 'Sabotage' (1936) based on the Joseph Conrad novel, cinema manager Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka), unbeknown to his wife Sylvia (Sylvia Sidney), is acting as a paid saboteur. A young woman is found strangled on the seashore, in the comedy-thriller 'Young And Innocent' (1937) Derrick De Marney. 'The Lady Vanishes' (1938), the elderly Miss Froy (May Whitty) goes missing on a train bound for England and her friend, Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood), sets out to find her. 'Jamaica Inn' (1939) - Hitchcock's last British film before leaving for Hollywood and a contract with David O. Selznick. Maureen O'Hara,Charles Laughton.
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