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DVD DEAL: Hitchcock movies

It's not a true TV DVD release, but these films are on the tube so often, it might as well be.

"Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection" is a jam-packed maroon velvet box of 14 suspensers with enlightening extras.

And Wednesday only, Amazon has it for less than half the $120 list price -- just $54 as the deal of the day.

Note that it doesn't ship till Nov. 1, so no Halloween chills here.

But Hitchcock flicks are fun anytime, and these are the best. Start with the '40s gems Saboteur, Rope and Hitch's fave, Shadow of a Doubt, where uncle Joseph Cotten puts the fright into a teen Teresa Wright. dvd hitchcock collection inside.jpg

Head into the '50s for acclaimed hits Rear Window and Vertigo.

Then it's '60s greats Psycho and The Birds, on to '70s finales Frenzy and Family Plot. And there's more.

While you can delve deeper into classics like Psycho and Vertigo in subsequent single-film Universal Legacy releases (feature-length making-ofs!), Amazon's Wednesday "Masterpiece Collection" price provides amazing bang for the buck.

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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