Rather than call it a Legacy of Suspense, this excellent box set of Hitchcock’s early films could be titled Film School in a Box. Covering the years 1926 through 1939 (with two shows from the popular Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series (1955-1962) throw in for good measure), the set is filled with the movies Hitchcock made before he became the ‘Hitchcock” of The Birds and Psycho. Not all of them work as well as others, and its hard to sit through some of the silent movies in the set, but even the average films share a bit of the magic the master would bring to his later films. And the best of the set — The Lady Vanishes, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Sabotage — can stand alongside the best he ever made. The bonus documentary is good, and the trailers of the films not in the box are a hoot.
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