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Ten-disc set includes: The Pleasure Garden (1925)Alfred Hitchcock's first feature-length film is a silent melodramatic gem from England about a British chorus girl (Virginia Valli) and her relationship with her husband (Miles Mander), a soldier of fortune, and a young woman she helps to get a job at the music hall. Carmelita Geraghty, John Stuart co-star. 90 min. Silent with music score. BW/Rtg: NR The Lodger (1927)Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller is a silent shocker about a mysterious tenant at a London boarding house whose odd behavior arouses the suspicions of his landlady, and eventually the police, who believe him to be "the Avenger," a Jack the Ripper-esque serial killer preying on young blonde women. Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, June, Malcolm Keen star; Hitchcock turns up in his first on-screen appearance. 74 min. Silent with music score. BW/Rtg: NR Downhill (1927)Alfred Hitchcock helmed this silent melodrama starring Ivor Novello as teenage student Roddy Berwick, who took the fall for his best friend after he got a shopgirl in trouble... and was rewarded with expulsion and the contempt of his own family. Drifting into France-and ever more degrading relationships and exploitation-can he ever find a road back? Isabel Jeans, Ian Hunter, Robin Irvine, Annette Benson co-star. 105 min. Silent with music score. BW/Rtg: NR The Ring (1927)One of Hitchcock's most highly regarded silent films (and his only original screenplay) focuses on "One Round" Jack Sander, a circus boxer who marries the box-office girl and turns pro to please her. But he soon faces competition in and out of the ring when his new bride leaves him for another fighter, setting the stage for a brutal battle between the pugs. Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter star. Silent with music score. BW/Rtg: NR Easy Virtue (1928)Alfred Hitchcock directed this silent melodrama, based on a Noël Coward play, about a woman valiantly coping with an alcoholic husband and the suicide of her lover. Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, and Ian Hunter star. 79 min. Silent with music score. BW/Rtg: NR Champagne (1928)This silent comedy from Alfred Hitchcock's early British period is about a spoiled rich girl whose father, a merchant known as "The Champagne King," feigns bankruptcy in order to teach her a lesson in responsibility. Betty Balfour and Gordon Harker star. 89 min. Silent with music score. BW/Rtg: NR The Farmer's Wife (1928)Rare Hitchcock silent comedy (he wrote and directed) about a recently widowed farmer who undertakes a wide search for a new wife, unaware of the perfect choice right under his nose: his charming housekeeper. Jameson Thomas and Lillian Hall-Davies star. 98 min. Silent with music score. BW/Rtg: NR Blackmail (1929)Based on the play by Charles Bennett, Hitchcock's (and England's) first sound film concerns the girlfriend of a Scotland Yard detective who kills a man in self-defense after he tries to rape her. As her lawman beau attempts to help her cover up the crime, the pair is blackmailed by an unscrupulous murder-leading to deception and death. Anny Ondra, John Longden, Donald Calthrop star. 84 min. BW/Rtg: NR The Manxman (1929)For his last silent film, director Alfred Hitchcock crafts a compelling drama about childhood friends on the Isle of Man who grow up to both fall in love with the local innkeeper's daughter. Engaged to one man, will she lose her heart to the other? Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen, and Anny Ondra star. 83 min. Silent with music score. BW/Rtg: NR Standard; Soundtrack: musical score; audio commentary; bonus documentary "I Am Alfred Hitchcock" (2022); featurettes; archival Francois Truffaut audio interviews; more. Silent with music score. Region Free