Alfred Hitchcock: Les Premières Oeuvres

Introduction

Studio Canal released 3 volumes of "Les Premières Oeuvres" (The Early Years) in 2005:

Alfred Hitchcock: Les Premières Oeuvres 1927/1929, volume 1 - Studio Canal (France, 2005)
- Le Masque de Cuir (1927) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "The Ring"
- A l'Américaine (1928) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "Champagne"
- Laquelle des Trois (1928) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "The Farmer's Wife"
- The Manxman (1929) - Studio Canal (France, 2005)
Alfred Hitchcock: Les Premières Oeuvres 1929/1931, volume 2 - Studio Canal (France, 2005)
- Chantage (1929) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "Blackmail"
- Meurtre (1930) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "Murder!"
- The Skin Game (1931) - Studio Canal (France, 2005)
- 52 minute "Alfred Hitchcock - Films de Jeunesse (1925-1934)"
Alfred Hitchcock: Les Premières Oeuvres 1932/1940, volume 3 - Studio Canal (France, 2005)
- A l'Est de Shanghaï (1931) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "Rich and Strange"
- Numéro 17 (1932) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "Number Seventeen"
- Correspondant 17 (1940) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "Foreign Correspondent"
- 28 minute French "Jeux avec l'Invisible" documentary

The French subtitles are player generated, but you may not be able to disable them during playback.
The transfers of the silent films contain a piano soundtrack by Xavier Berthelot
- "Ce film vous est presente dans une version modifiee, incluant une musique originale inedite, composee et interpretee par Xavier Berthelot dans l'esprit des pianistes de l'epoque du cinema muet."
Each box set comes with 5 large postcards of stills from the films.