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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,
