The Hitchcock Collection (The Black Box Set)

Box set collection from the master of suspense. In 'Saboteur', factory worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) finds himself branded an industrial saboteur after a fire breaks out in the workplace. The extinguisher he handed to his colleague and best friend itself burst into flame, and Kane is now on the run, determined to find the real culprit and so prove his innocence. The only person who believes his story is Patricia Martin (Priscilla Lane), who aids him in his flight from the authorities. In 'Shadow of a Doubt', young 'Charlie' Newton (Teresa Wright) longs for something exciting to happen to brighten her dull existence in Santa Rosa with parents Joseph (Henry Travers) and Emma (Patricia Collinge). The arrival of her Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) seems to be just what she needs: urbane, witty and charming, the elder Charlie has announced that he wishes to quit New York to spend some time with his family. Uncle Charlie soon makes himself at home, but his suspicious behaviour begins to unsettle his niece. When police detective Macdonald Carey (Jack Graham) tells Charlie that he believes her uncle to be none other than the Merry Widow murderer, she begins to question whether she really knows Uncle Charlie at all. In 'Rope', flatmates Brandon (John Dall) and Philip (Farley Granger) murder their friend David Kentley purely to see if they can get away with it. They then throw a cocktail party, serving food from the top of the trunk where they have hidden David's body. Their guests include both David's father and fiance, as well as college lecturer Rupert Cadell (James Stewart), who becomes increasingly suspicious as the evening wears on. In 'Rear Window', photo-journalist L.B. 'Jeff' Jeffries (James Stewart) is forced to spend a humid summer recuperating in his Greenwich Village apartment after breaking his leg on a shoot. The wheelchair-bound Jeff whiles away his time observing his neighbours through a telephoto lens, bestowing them with nicknames and growing familiar with their daily routines. However, his society girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) is exasperated and then alarmed when Jeff becomes obsessed with the notion that Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), who lives in the apartment opposite, has murdered his wife. In 'The Trouble with Harry', the discovery of Harry Rogers' dead body on sunny autumnal day results in several people trying to keep it a secret . Among them is Captain Albert Wiles (Edmund Gwenn), who mistakenly believes himself to be responsible for Harry's death, Harry's widow, Jennifer (Shirley Maclaine), painter Sam Marlowe (John Forsythe) and local spinster Miss Graveley (Mildred Natwick). Their attempts to rid themselves of the troublesome corpse lead to further misunderstandings and several disinterments. In 'The Man Who Knew Too Much', Dr Ben McKenna (James Stewart) is on holiday in Morocco with his wife, former singer Jo (Doris Day), and son Hank when he meets friendly but mysterious Frenchman Louis Bernard (Daniel Gelin). The McKennas are also befriended by the Draytons, an English couple who take them to the local bazaar. There Ben is confronted by an Arab who, after being shot in the back, whispers a dying message to him. It transpires that the Arab is in fact a disguised Bernard, and that he has entrusted Hank with the identity of a British politician who is due to be assassinated. After being questioned by the police Ben and Jo return to their hotel, only to discover that the Draytons have checked out and taken Hank with them in order to ensure Ben's silence. Finally, in 'Psycho', Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) goes on the run after stealing $40,000 from one of her employer's clients. Taking a wrong turn in a storm, Marion arrives at the isolated Bates Motel, run by the twitchy Norman (Anthony Perkins), who is constantly at the beck and call of his unseen mother. When Marion takes a shower in her room, a sudden knife attack brings her life to an end. Upon discovering her body Norman covers up the murder, but it is not long before Marion's sister and boyfriend are attempting to track her down.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Jack H. Skirball
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Peter Viertel
Writer: Joan Harrison
Writer: Dorothy Parker
Writer: Thornton Wilder
Writer: Arthur Laurents
Writer: Hume Cronyn
Writer: John Michael Hayes
Writer: Angus MacPhail
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Music: Charles Previn
Music: Frank Skinner
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Music: Francis Poulenc
Music: Leo F. Forbstein
Music: Franz Waxman
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Actor: Priscilla Lane
Actor: Robert Cummings
Actor: Otto Kruger
Actor: Alan Baxter
Actor: Clem Bevans
Actor: Norman Lloyd
Actor: Alma Kruger
Actor: Dorothy Peterson
Actor: Ian Wolfe
Actor: Joseph Cotten
Actor: Teresa Wright
Actor: Macdonald Carey
Actor: Patricia Collinge
Actor: Henry Travers
Actor: Hume Cronyn
Actor: Edna May Wonacott
Actor: Wallace Ford
Actor: Irving Bacon
Actor: Charles Bates
Actor: James Stewart
Actor: John Dall
Actor: Farley Granger
Actor: Cedric Hardwicke
Actor: Constance Collier
Actor: Joan Chandler
Actor: Douglas Dick
Actor: Edith Evanson
Actor: Dick Hogan
Actor: Grace Kelly
Actor: Wendell Corey
Actor: Thelma Ritter
Actor: Raymond Burr
Actor: Judith Evelyn
Actor: Ross Bagdasarian
Actor: Georgine Darcy
Actor: Sara Berner
Actor: Frank Cady
Actor: Harris Davenport
Actor: Marla English
Actor: Jesslyn Fax
Actor: Alan Lee
Actor: Irene Winston
Actor: Shirley MacLaine
Actor: John Forsythe
Actor: Edmund Gwenn
Actor: Mildred Natwick
Actor: Ernest Curt Bach
Actor: Royal Dano
Actor: Parker Fennelly
Actor: Dwight Marfield
Actor: Jerry Mathers
Actor: Philip Truex
Actor: Leslie Woolf
Actor: Doris Day
Actor: Bernard Miles
Actor: Brenda De Banzie
Actor: Ralph Truman
Actor: Daniel Gelin
Actor: Alan Mowbray
Actor: Hillary Brooke
Actor: Reggie Nalder
Actor: Christopher Olsen
Actor: Alix Talton
Actor: Richard Wattis
Actor: Mogens Wieth
Actor: Noel Willman
Actor: Anthony Perkins
Actor: Janet Leigh
Actor: Vera Miles
Actor: John Gavin
Actor: Martin Balsam
Actor: John McIntire
Actor: Lurene Tuttle
Actor: Frank Albertson
Actor: Patricia Hitchcock
Actor: Simon Oakland