![]() ![]() ![]() Anxiety and suspicion is also amped to the max in The Creeper, in which a murderer has put a community in fear and one particular woman is awaiting a locksmith to put a chain on her door while her husband is working away and becomes increasingly distressed. Into Thin Air is a variation on the same tale that influenced the maestro’s own The Lady Vanishes (as he admits himself in the introduction), and contains the same spirally level of paranoia and frustration. Standout episodes in the mammoth collection include premiere story, Revenge, directed by Hitchcock, and setting the tone perfectly as a husband takes the law into his own hands when his wife is left traumatised by an assault. In fact, one Season Five story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, later appeared in the final season of Twilight Zone, albeit in an imported French adaptation. ![]() While there are not many of the episodes that have gone into the global consciousness like some of the Zone stories have, they still pack quite a punch. Later shows such as Boris Karloff’s Thriller and The Twilight Zone may be better known in genre circles, since the stories in Presents are often more crime related with a hint of the macabre and a large dollop of irony. That’s before we get to the array of acting talent, including Vincent Price in one Season Two episode. There are also episodes with such legendary directors as Robert Altman, Ida Lupino, William Friedkin, Arthur Hiller, and John Brahm at the helm. Hitchcock himself directs seventeen stories, which makes them well worth spinning to for curiosity value alone (they are brilliant, though). Within the 268 episodes included in this set are some of the most memorable half-hours of American television, with input from some of the finest talent. The Master of Suspense is Back with 16 Hours of Award-Winning Murder, Mystery and Suspense in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season One.This 3-disc set contains all of the original 39 episodes, now available on DVD for the first time! Hosted by Alfred Hitchcock and featuring star-studded guests including Cloris Leachman, Charles Bronson, Claude Rains, Lorne Greene, Joanne Woodward, Vera Miles and many more.ĭVD Bonus Features: Includes the documentary Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Look Back containing interviews with Alfred Hitchcock's daughter Pat Hitchcock, Associate Producer/Director Norman Lloyd and Assistant Director Hilton Green.It’s possibly the opening moments of each episode – the distinctive silhouette of a master director set to Charles Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette, a motif that would become synonymous with the great man, and the incredibly witty and pithy monologues that follow, that define and make the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents so memorable.īut there’s plenty more to recommend this newly-released box set of the seven series that the show went under the ‘ Presents’ name before expanding running time of the stories and becoming The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Into Thin Air (aka The Vanishing Lady)Īlong with the above episodes, this DVD also contains a featurette called "Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Look Back" on the show. This set contains the first 39 episodes of Season 1, told by the `Master of Suspense', Alfred Hitchcock. ![]() Premiered on October 1st, 1955, this wonderful series ran for seven seasons, and afterwards for another 3 seasons as "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour". A MUST have for Hitchcock fans! 16 HOURS of suspense! ![]()
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