Hitchcock: The Beginning

Released to mark the 125th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock's birth, this Studiocanal 11-disc box set builds on the 2016 DVD release Hitchcock: The Early Collection, including additional films, extras and the documentary Becoming Hitchcock - The Legacy Of Blackmail. It is also the first time the films have been available in the UK on Bluray.

While not including every single film from HItchcock's silent era - most notably, perhaps, The Lodger - this is nevertheless a comprehensive presentation of his work, showing the origins of several of the elements that he would go on to capitalise on in his later work. The transition from silent movies to sound is particularly fascinating as Hitchcock embraced the new opportunities this presented.

You can read individual reviews of the films here, including a look at the 2016 extras. Additional extras are detailed in the DVD/Bluray review here:

The Ring - Two boxers vie for the love of a woman.

The Farmer's Wife - review coming soon

Champagne - The comedic adventures of a rich girl whose father decides to teachher a lesson.

The Manxman - review coming soon

Blackmail - A young woman and her detective lover are blackmailed after she kills a man who tries to rape her

Murder! (plus Mary) - A man who helped convict a woman of murder becomes convinced by her innocence

Juno And The Paycock - The trials and tribulations of an Irish family

Rich And Strange - A couple find their marriage vows tested on a cruise to the Orient.

The Skin Game - Morality tale of class and conscience sees old aristos and new money family battle over land

Number Seventeen - A mystery unfolds in an abandoned house