Around Christmas last year, there was a good deal on a collection of all of Alfred Hitchcock’s British films.  I’m a big fan of his work but his British period was pretty much a blank slate for me.  Aside from The 39 Steps, I’m pretty ignorant of his developmental period.

I don’t remember the exact price but it was less than $2.00 per movie.  As far as I was concerned, it was a great deal if all I’d gotten was The 39 Steps and The Lodger.

Decisions like that are one of the reasons I’m doing the Alphabetical Movie project.  I have something like twenty Hitchcock films on four discs.  Left to my own devices, I would probably watch one or two in the next five years.

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