During his early years in the British film industry, from the spring of 1920 to the spring of 1925, Hitch worked on 20 shorts and features in various capacities and from spring 1925 to spring 1939 earned a sole directing credit for 27 more. Much less known, however, is the fine body of work that actually got him the gig. Like so many émigré filmmakers before and since, the fact that Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899–1980) was wooed away from his native England to the bright lights and big bucks of Hollywood is well known, as are the classics he made there. ![]() I will, of course, be keeping them all regularly updated. Alongside are supplementary articles discussing lesser known aspects of the man and his work, all presenting much new and unique research. Firstly we’ll have some background before going on to detail every official release of each film worldwide, itemising exactly what you should acquire, wherever you are. Well, gamble no more because help is at hand: this series of guides finally takes all the guesswork out of the equation. The number of authentic looking but poor quality bootlegs far outweigh official releases and up until now, choosing the right ones has been like a game of Russian roulette with all but one chamber loaded. But for his British films of the 1920s and 1930s it’s a very different story. However, there are still many exceptions to be found. ![]() After all, they’ve been widely available in mostly good quality editions right from the birth of home video. | Part 4: Universal StudiosĪrmed with a little foreknowledge, collecting Alfred Hitchcock’s catalogue is comparatively straightforward when it comes to his better known and generally more feted US-made films from 1940 onwards. Part 1: Setting the scene | Part 2: British film restorations and collections | American movie collections Part 3: ABC and Warner Bros. Subscribe to the email list to be notified when new ones appear. Note: this is the first part of an ongoing series of 150-odd Hitchcock articles any dead links are to those not yet published.
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