The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection - Alfred Hitchcock

Collection of four classic thrillers directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In 'Rear Window' (1954), after sustaining series injuries in an accident, photojournalist L.B. 'Jeff' Jeffries (James Stewart) is forced to spend a humid summer recuperating in his Greenwich Village apartment. The wheelchair-bound Jeff spends his time observing his neighbours first through binoculars and later a telephoto lens, bestowing them with nicknames and growing familiar with their daily routines. However, his girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) is alarmed when Jeff becomes obsessed with the notion that Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), who lives in the apartment opposite, has murdered his wife. In 'Vertigo' (1958), San Francisco detective John 'Scottie' Ferguson (Stewart) retires after a rooftop chase in which a fellow police officer falls to his death leaves him with a crippling fear of heights and vertigo. He is subsequently hired by Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore) to follow his wife Madeleine (Kim Novak), as Elster says he fears for her life. After Scottie saves her from drowning, the two fall in love, but when his vertigo prevents him from saving her a second time, he fears he is losing his mind when he starts seeing a woman who reminds him of her on the city streets. In 'Psycho' (1960) 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, she 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 ends her life. Upon discovering her body, Norman attempts to cover up the murder, but it is not long before Marion's sister and boyfriend arrive, attempting to track her down... Finally, in 'The Birds' (1963), spoiled socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) pursues lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) to his Bodega Bay home after they meet in a bird shop. Melanie sails across the bay to deliver the gift of a pair of lovebirds to Mitch's young sister, only to be attacked by a gull. Soon violent and unexplained attacks on humans are taking place all over Bodega Bay as birds of all varieties mass in their thousands overhead.