Spellbound (1945) - MGM Home Entertainment (USA, 2008)

Spellbound (1945)

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DVD Contents - Overview

• Spellbound (1945) with feature length commentary
• 20 minute "Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism and Salvador Dali" documentary
• 20 minute "Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing Spellbound" featurette
• 10 minute "A Cinderella Story: Rhonda Fleming" featurette
• 60 minute radio play from 1948

Box Sets and Collections

This DVD is available as a individual DVD or as part of the following box sets and collections:

• Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection - MGM Home Entertainment (USA, 2008)

DVD Information

• released by MGM Home Entertainment in 2008 and 2009 (USA)
• region encoding: region 1
• format: 1 DVD (DVD9, 6.76GB) in cardboard sleeve
• release date: 14/Oct/2008 - box set
• release date: 10/Feb/2009 - individual DVD
• UPC/EAN:
• catalogue:
• main transfer: NTSC black & white
• database ID: 4013

DVD Contents - Detailed Information

• Spellbound (1945)
  • length: 118 minutes (01:57:56)
  • audio: English mono (DD2.0, AC3, 192 Kbps)
  • subtitles: English, Spanish, and French
  • ratio: 1.33:1
  • bitrate: 5.22 Mb/sec

• full length commentary track by Thomas Schatz and Charles Ramirez Berg
  • audio: English (DD2.0, AC3, 192 Kbps)
  • subtitles: none

Extras

• "Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism and Salvador Dali" documentary
  • length: 20 minutes (00:20:27)
  • audio: English (DD2.0, AC3, 192 Kbps)
  • subtitles: none
  • ratio: 1.85:1

• "Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing Spellbound" featurette
  • length: 20 minutes (00:19:45)
  • audio: English (DD2.0, AC3, 192 Kbps)
  • subtitles: none
  • ratio: 1.85:1

• "A Cinderella Story: Rhonda Fleming" featurette
  • length: 10 minutes (00:10:16)
  • audio: English (DD2.0, AC3, 192 Kbps)
  • subtitles: none
  • ratio: 1.85:1

• "Spellbound" 1948 radio play -- starting Joseph Cotten and Valli
  • length: 60 minutes (00:59:44)
  • audio: English mono (DD2.0, AC3, 192 Kbps)
  • subtitles: none

• audio interview -- Peter Bogdanovich and Alfred Hitchcock
  • length: 15 minutes (00:15:11)
  • audio: English mono (DD2.0, AC3, 192 Kbps)
  • subtitles: none

• theatrical trailer
  • length: 2 minutes (00:02:07)
  • audio: English (DD2.0, AC3, 192 Kbps)
  • subtitles: none
  • ratio: 1.33:1

• still galleries -- posters, portraits and behind the scenes photographs
  • audio: silent (no audio)
  • ratio: 1.33:1

Booklet/Insert

• 6 pages about the film

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