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Number 17 - Region 1 DVD

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Vintage & Classic Horror Collections (329 items)
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Description: The technical challenges of this 1932 "old dark house" mystery are largely what appealed to Alfred Hitchcock, who uses a staircase quite inventively to create a series of emotional and dramatic thresholds from which to tell a story (adapted from a play) about a policeman, a hobo, and a gang of jewel thieves. Besides the technical temptations of filming in the house, Hitch turns (as he often did in the early days) to models to create an exciting chase-climax between a train and a bus. A very minor work, indeed, but revealing of the director's early interest in transcending dull material with exercises in what he termed ... (more)
Manufacturer: Alpha Video Distributors
Release date: 20 January 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9786304870259 UPC: 056775003098
Tags: 1930's (1)
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