What's with the synopsis for The Lodger.
That cast list is from the 1944 remake directed by John Brahm not Hitch's classic 1926 silent.

This is perfect. I'm a little bummed though because I just sprung for the Special Edition of Lifeboat, but that was only $10 wasted. I've been trying to get Rebecca, Notiorious, and Spellbound for quite some time but the Criterion's were all out of use. I spent hours googling Notorious only to come up against a thousand discount copies of "So NoTORIous" starring Tori Spelling. It was torture. Anyway, Lifeboat is a gem. I can live with buying it twice.

sjp1966 wrote: Does that not seen a little expensive $119 for 8 films?

Absolutely not.  First of all that's the MSRP and who pays that?  It'll be more like $90 I'm sure.  Second of all, 8 films of that calibur with such great extras would be $15-20 each, making it $120-160 total.

Anyway, I'd love this set but I think I'm going to hold out for bluray editions.

Future bluray realese?  Would love to get this, Spellbound is so damn good.

I'll double dip on LifeBoat and take the rest.  For so long I've been trying to buy the Criterion boxset Wrong Men & Notorious Women, but it's just too expensive on the secondary market.  

Anyone think I'm missing out on much if I skip that set and maybe try and pick up the individual 39 Steps and Lady Vanishes films?  Fact is, the films in the set that most interested me were Notorious and Spellbound, so this knocks them off my list.

I've been waiting to have a Hitchcock weekend movie marathon until I picked up some of these.  Perfect.

awesome - I've only got the Spellbound criterion set (which I'd never, ever sell - even if it means owning two copies), and Lifeboat. I'm all over this - I've been dying to get my hands on Rebecca and Notorious (w/out paying $70 each on ebay) for years!

This set sounds awesome, but when are studios going to give Hitch a Blu-ray debut? As much as I love the films in this set that I have seen, I have to hold out for the Blu.

This set has made my day.  I have copies of all of these except for the paradine case, but most of these extras look brand new!  Lifeboat looks to be a complete repeat of the special edition released a few years ago, and i assume the radio plays are the same, since they must be public domain, or at least not held by criterion.  I'll be selling my lifeboat disc for sure, but holding on to the beautiful criterion versions since they all have seperate (and excellent) extras.  This leaves Under Capricorn as hitchcocks only remaining post-england film without a decent dvd release.  Come on!  someone needs to step up and give us a solid release of that in region 1!  I know it was one of his worst films, but i'll take bottom of the barrel hitch over top o' the line damn-near-anything-else any day.

I don't own any of those yet, I just have The Masterpiece Collection and The Signature Collection, so this is good news! I haven't seen any of those either, so cool!

Man oh man. I have all these movies already. I have the OOP Criterion version of Rebecca and the OOP Anchor Bay versions of Notorious and Spellbound. The rest are Region Free so I wouldnt mind the upgrade. Maybe Ill try and sell em? The criterion would pay for the whole set. It is great that those movies are finally going to be available to people who have been wanting to see them but couldnt get a hold of them.