'Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection'

Not all that many people want to spend $200 on a box set of Blu-ray discs, but if you're a Hitchcock fan -- and film fan in general -- this Masterpiece collection, which contains 15 movies, including the new-to-Blu-ray "Vertigo" and "Rear Window," is worth considering, particularly if it ever goes on sale. Not all the films have been given equal restoration treatment, and "Dial M for Murder," "Strangers on a Train," "Notorious," and "To Catch a Thief" are not part of the collection, but the director's best-known films -- "Psycho," "The Birds," "Rear Window," "Vertigo," "North by Northwest" -- look great.

Alas, both "Vertigo" and "Rear Window" are not available separately yet, which is part of the reason I've put this collection on the list. It's hard to justify buying the complete collection for those two movies. But a lot of care has gone into their restorations (as well as the restoration for "North by Northwest") and they'd all be must-haves on their own. In other words, I wanted to get "Vertigo," "Rear Window," and "North by Northwest" on the list and this is the one way I knew how.

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