Published
Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, [2011].
Edition
Limited edition, widescreen.
UPC
025192084546, 025192121616
Notes
General Note
Title from container.
General Note
Disc 1 : Rear Window bonus features: "Rear window ethics : an original documentary" featurette; "A conversation with screenwriter John Michael Hayes" featurette; Production photographs; Production notes; Re-release trailer narrated by James Stewart; Theatrical trailer.
General Note
Disc 2 : Vertigo bonus features: "Obsessed with Vertigo : new life for Hitchcock's masterpiece" featurette; Feature commentary with associate producer Herbert Coleman, restoration team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz and other Vertigo participants; Production notes; Theatrical trailers; Foreign censorship ending; The Vertigo archives.
General Note
Disc 3 : North By Northwest bonus features: Commentary by screenwriter Ernest Lehman; Music-only audio track.
General Note
Disc 4 : Psycho bonus features: Production notes; Theatrical trailer; Re-release trailer; Newsreel footage: the release of Psycho; The shower scene with and without music; The Psycho archives; Production photographs; Behind-the-scenes photographs.
General Note
Disc 5 : The Birds bonus features: Deleted scene; The original ending; Storyboard sequence; Tippi Hedren's screen test; "The birds" is coming (Universal international newsreel); Suspense story : National Press Club hears Hitchcock (Universal international newsreel); Production photographs; Production notes, Theatrical trailer.
Creation/Production Credits
Disc 1 : Rear window / Universal ; a Paramount release ; Patron, Inc. ; screenplay by John Michael Hayes ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; music score by Franz Waxman.
Creation/Production Credits
Disc 2 : Vertigo / Universal ; a Paramount release ; screenplay by Alec Coppel & Samuel Taylor ; associate producer, Herbert Coleman ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; music by Bernard Herrmann.
Creation/Production Credits
Disc 3 : North by northwest / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; written by Ernest Lehman ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; music by Bernard Herrmann.
Creation/Production Credits
Disc 4 : Psycho / Universal ; a Paramount release ; screenplay by Joseph Stefano ; Shamley Productions, Inc. ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; music, Bernard Herrmann.
Creation/Production Credits
Disc 5: The Birds / Universal Pictures ; Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc. ; screenplay by Evan Hunter ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Participants/Performers
Disc 1 : Rear window: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr.
Participants/Performers
Disc 2 : Vertigo: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones.
Participants/Performers
Disc 3 : North by northwest: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Jesse Royce Landis.
Participants/Performers
Disc 4 : Psycho: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Janet Leigh.
Participants/Performers
Disc 5 : The Birds: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright.
Description
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 apartment.
Description
Disc 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 death.
Description
Disc 3 : In North by northwest, an ad executive is mistaken for a spy by foreign agents.
Description
Disc 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 mother.
Description
Disc 5 : The Birds: based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier. In The Birds, a small California town is attacked by thousands of birds.
Target Audience
Rear window & Vertigo: MPAA rating: PG. The Birds: MPAA rating: PG-13. Psycho: MPAA rating: R. North by northwest: Not rated.
System Details
DVD; region 1, NTSC; anamorphic widescreen presentations; Dolby Digital 2.0 mono; dual layer format.
Language
Disc 1 : Rear window, English or dubbed French dialogue with optional English SDH or Spanish subtitles.
Language
Disc 2 : Vertigo In English with optional English SDH, French, or Spanish subtitles.
Language
Disc 3 : North by northwest in English or dubbed French dialogue, with optional English SHD or French subtitles.
Language
Disc 4 : Psycho in English or dubbed French dialogue with optional English SDH or Spanish subtitles.
Language
Disc 5 : The Birds: In English or dubbed French dialogue with optional English SDH subtitles.
Awards
Rear window:,National Board of Review, 1954, Best Actress (Grace Kelly)
Awards
Rear window:,National Film Registry, 1997
Awards
The birds:,Golden Globes, 1964, Most Promising Newcomer - Female (Tippi Hedren)
Awards
The birds:,National Film Registry, 2016
Awards
Vertigo:,National Film Registry, 1989
Awards
Psycho:,Golden Globes, 1961, Best Supporting Actress (Janet Leigh)
Awards
Psycho:,National Film Registry, 1992
Awards
North by northwest:,National Film Registry, 1995
Local note
Widescreen version.