Alfred Hitchcock
3) Marnie
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marnie, a compulsive thief and liar is caught. Her captor impulsively marries the frigid, disturbed girl in an attempt to discover the reasons for her ongoing anti-social behavior.
4) Vertigo
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
5) "I confess"
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A priest hears a murderer's confession and then becomes the murder suspect himself.
6) Psycho
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lamb to the slaughter: When Mrs. Maloney's philandering husband asks for a divorce, she'll do anything to keep him, but can she get away with murder? Case of Mr. Pelham: Buttoned-down businessman Mr. Pelham hasn't been himself lately. Actually he's been more like two of himself. In a bizarre series of near misses, he draws closer to a riveting confrontation with ... himself. Banquo's chair: A murder suspect goes to a dinner party, unaware that a visit...
10) To catch a thief
Description
Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances, he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother's fabulous jewels. His plan backfires, however, but Frances, who believes him guilty, proves her love by helping him escape. In a spine-tingling climax, the real criminal is exposed.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. Shirley Maclaine makes her screen debut in this New England romp that includes romance, humor ... and several unearthings of the corpse.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (286 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jamaica Inn: Mary is an Irish orphan girl sent to stay with her aunt and uncle, proprietors of the notorious Jamaica Inn. Mary soon discovers that the inn has a terrible secret, and the strange abode is about to claim its next victim.
Young and innocent: Robert is the estranged husband of a beautiful actress with a bad reputation. When he discovers her lifeless body on the beach, he is mistaken for the murderer and soon finds himself on the run,...
13) Suspicion
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.
Author
Formats
Description
"Married couple Bob and Jill Lawrence are vacationing in Switzerland with daughter Betty. A Frenchman who befriends the family is shot through the heart during a dance with the young mother. Before dying, however, he whispers a secret... What follows is an unusually fine dramatic story, filled with hallmark Hitchcockian twists and turns, breathless chase scenes and superb acting."-container.
15) Family plot
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A phony psychic and a private eye search for a lost heir, getting mixed up in a diamond theft at the same time. This version has been digitally remastered.
16) Frenzy
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In modern-day London, a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer has the police on alert; and in typical Hitchcock fashion, their trail is leading to an innocent man who must now elude the law and prove his innocence by finding the real murderer.
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A century after Alfred Hitchcock's first film, he remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. But how does his vast body of work and legacy hold up in today's society? Mark Cousins, the award-winning filmmaker behind The Story of Film: An Odyssey, The Eyes of Orson Welles, and The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, tackles this question and looks at the auteur with a new and radical approach: through the use of his own voice. As...
Series
Criterion collection volume 696
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Description
A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.
19) Rear window
Pub. Date
2001, c1954
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...