Published
[Dunellen, N.J.] : Digiview Entertainment, c2006.
Notes
General Note
Title from container.
General Note
Easy virtue is a silent film with title cards.
General Note
Jamaica Inn was based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Sabotage was based on the novel Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. The 39 steps was based on the novel by John Buchan. Easy virtue was adapted from the play by Noel Coward.
General Note
Jamaica Inn was originally produced as a motion picture in 1939. Sabotage was originally produced as a motion picture in 1936. The 39 steps was originally produced as a motion picture in 1935. Easy virtue was originally produced as a motion picture in 1928.
Creation/Production Credits
Jamaica Inn: Mayflower Pictures presents ; director, Alfred Hitchcock ; producer, Erich Pommer ; screenplay, Sidney Gilliat and Joan Harrison ; music, Eric Fenby ; editor, Robert Hamer ; director of photography, Harry Stradling.
Creation/Production Credits
Sabotage: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation presents ; director, Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay, Charles Bennett ; music, Louis Levy ; art director, O. Werndorff ; editor, Charles Frend ; director of photography, Bernard Knowles.
Creation/Production Credits
The 39 steps: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation presents ; director, Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay, Charles Bennett ; music, Louis Levy ; art director, O. Werndorff ; editor, D.N. Twist ; director of photography, Bernard Knowles.
Creation/Production Credits
Easy virtue: CM Woolf, Michael Balcon, and Gainsborough Pictures present ; director, Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay, Eliot Stannard ; art director, Clifford Pember ; director of photography, Claude McDonnell.
Participants/Performers
Jamaica Inn: Charles Laughton, Leslie Banks, Emlyn Williams, Robert Newton, Maureen O'Hara.
Participants/Performers
Sabotage: Sylvia Sydney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder, Desmond Tester, William Dewhurst.
Participants/Performers
The 39 steps: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft.
Participants/Performers
Easy virtue: Isabel Jeans, Robin Irvine, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Ian Hunter.
Description
Jamaica Inn: An Irish orphan girl goes to live with an uncle who is discovered to be involved in a group of smuggling highwaymen ravaging the area.
Description
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage.
Description
The 39 steps: Character Richard Hanney stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Description
Easy virtue: A woman goes through a divorce and attempts to overcome the tarnished reputation that accompanies it.
System Details
DVD (double-sided) ; fullscreen presentation ; stereo.