Announced last month, Universal will soon be releasing The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection, a 4-film 4K Ultra HD set containing some of Hitchcock's finest works, including Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo and Rear Window.
Arriving on September 8th, 2020, the release has been fully detailed this week.
"This collection with collectible Discbook packaging includes hours of bonus features such as documentaries, expert commentaries, interviews, screen tests and much more," Universal stated in the press release.
The company also confirmed the collection will include the uncut version of Psycho, which features around 4 minutes of additional footage that was cut from the original film, on home video for the first time ever in the US!
Here's everything included:
Rear Window Bonus Features:
Audio commentary by Hitchcock’s Rear Window: The Well-Made Film author John Fawell
Rear Window Ethics – 2000 documentary
Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael Hayes
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of The Master
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
Masters of Cinema
Hitchcock/Truffaut – Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Rear Window
Production photo gallery
Theatrical trailer
Re-release trailer narrated by James Stewart
Vertigo Bonus Features:
Audio commentary by filmmaker William Friedkin (The Exorcist)
Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock’s Masterpiece
Partners In Crime: Hitchcock’s Collaborators
Saul Bass: Title Champ
Edith Head: Dressing the Master’s Movies
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock’s Maestro
Alma: The Master’s Muse
Foreign censorship ending
100 Years of Universal: The Lew Wasserman Era
Hitchcock/Truffaut – Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Vertigo
Theatrical trailer
Restoration theatrical trailer
Psycho Bonus Features:
Original uncut and standard re-releases version of the film
The Making of Psycho
The Making of Psycho audio commentary with Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho author Stephen Rebello
Psycho Sound
In The Master’s Shadow: Hitchcock’s Legacy
Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho
The Shower Scene: With and Without Music
The Shower Sequence: Storyboards by Saul Bass
The Psycho Archives
Hitchcock/Truffaut – Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Psycho
Posters and ad gallery
Lobby card gallery
Behind-the-scenes photo gallery
Production photo gallery
Psycho theatrical trailers
Psycho re-release trailer
The Birds Bonus Features:
The Birds: Hitchcock’s Monster Movie
All About The Birds
Original ending
Deleted scene
Tippi Hedren’s screen test
The Birds is coming (Universal International Newsreel)
Suspense Story: National Press Club hears Hitchcock (Universal International Newsreel)
100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics
100 Years of Universal: The Lot
Hitchcock/Truffaut – Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Vertigo
Theatrical trailer
The set will include the films on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and Digital. Check it out below.
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