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Contents 1 Alfred Hitchcock: Les Premières Oeuvres 1932/1940, volume 3 1.1 Product Links 1.2 Page Status 1.3 DVD Contents - Overview 1.4 DVD Information 1.5 DVD Contents - Detailed Information 1.6 Booklet/Insert 1.7 Related Releases 1.8 Comments and Notes 1.9 Reviews 1.10 Relevant Message Board Topics 1.11 Images

Alfred Hitchcock: Les Premières Oeuvres 1932/1940, volume 3

Product Links

• Amazon (France)

Page Status

the details of this release have been confirmed as accurate

DVD Contents - Overview

• Rich and Strange (1931)
• Number Seventeen (1932)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• 28 minute French "Jeux avec l'Invisible" documentary

DVD Information

• released by Studio Canal in 2005 (France)
• region encoding: region 2
• format: 2 discs, dual layer (DVD9), in hard cardboard case
• release date: 02/May/2005
• UPC/EAN: 3259130224238
• catalogue: 302 242-3
• main transfer: PAL and black & white
• database ID: 9004

DVD Contents - Detailed Information

See also the individual pages for each DVD:

• Rich and Strange (1931)
  • length: 80 minutes (01:19:48)
  • audio: English mono (DD2.0) and French mono (DD2.0)
  • subtitles: French
  • ratio: 1.33:1
  • bitrate: 6.75 Mb/sec

• Number Seventeen (1932)
  • length: 61 minutes (01:01:09)
  • audio: English mono (DD2.0) and French mono (DD2.0)
  • subtitles: French
  • ratio: 1.33:1
  • bitrate: 6.75 Mb/sec

• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
  • length: 103½ minutes (01:43:32)
  • audio: English mono (DD2.0) and French mono (DD2.0)
  • subtitles: French
  • ratio: 1.33:1
  • bitrate: 6.70 Mb/sec

• "Jeux avec l'Invisible" documentary
  • documentary about "Foreign Correspondent" hosted by Noel Simsolo, with archive footage and excerpts of the Truffaut/Hitchcock interviews
  • length: 28 minutes (00:27:50)
  • audio: French (DD2.0)
  • subtitles: none
  • ratio: 1.33:1

• Photo gallery for "Rich and Strange"
  • length: 1 minute (00:00:59)

• Photo gallery for "Number Seventeen"
  • length: 1 minute (00:01:09)

• Photo gallery for "Foreign Correspondent"
  • length: ½ minute (00:00:32)

• Optional introductions
  • by Noel Simsolo
  • audio: French
  • subtitles: none
  • ratio: 1.33:1

Booklet/Insert

• Two sided, with adverts for the other two box sets in the collection.

Related Releases

Comments and Notes

• The French subtitles are player generated, but you may not be able to disable them during playback.
• The box set comes with 5 large postcards of stills from the films.

Reviews

Relevant Message Board Topics

• Hitchcock's silent films/first sound films on DVD in 2005

Images

• See also the individual pages for each DVD for further images, screen grabs, etc:
  • A l'Est de Shanghaï (1931) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "Rich and Strange"
  • Numéro 17 (1932) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "Number Seventeen"
  • Correspondant 17 (1940) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "Foreign Correspondent"

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