Where can I watch rare Alfred Hitchcock movies?
The Mountain Eagle, Always Tell Your Wife, and An Elastic Affair no longer exist, as far as we know. Waltzes from Vienna is currently available on a French DVD; you’ll need a multi-region player. Elstree Calling, an omnibus film for which Hitchcock directed some skits, exists but is not readily available. Mary, the German language version of Murder, exists in a print with English subtitles and is occasionally screened in retrospectives; it might be available on the DVD “gray market,” or in the bittorrent world (not that I recommend the latter; too hairy legally). “Incident at a Corner” is probably on the DVD gray market, too (as well as another rare Hitchcock TV episode, “Four O’Clock” from the Suspicion anthology series). The Fighting Generation and Watchtower over Tomorrow were not “signed” by Hitchcock; the latter is credited to John Cromwell, although Hitchcock may have worked on it, and I’m not sure how it can be seen. The Fighting Generation is definitely extant and probably sole
The Mountain Eagle, Always Tell Your Wife, and An Elastic Affair no longer exist, as far as we know. Waltzes from Vienna is currently available on a French DVD; you’ll need a multi-region player. Elstree Calling, an omnibus film for which Hitchcock directed some skits, exists but is not readily available. Mary, the German language version of Murder, exists in a print with English subtitles and is occasionally screened in retrospectives; it might be available on the DVD “gray market,” or in the bittorrent world (not that I recommend the latter; too hairy legally). “Incident at a Corner” is probably on the DVD gray market, too (as well as another rare Hitchcock TV episode, “Four O’Clock” from the Suspicion anthology series). The Fighting Generation and Watchtower over Tomorrow were not “signed” by Hitchcock; the latter is credited to John Cromwell, although Hitchcock may have worked on it, and I’m not sure how it can be seen.
