James Stewart Collection
Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Rating: PG
Summary: This box set features a collection of some of the very best films starring Jimmy Stewart.
- Vertigo: Considered by many to be director Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest achievement comes this fully restored and remastered version of the haunting film classic. Set in San Francisco, James Stewart portrays and acrophobic detective hired to trail a friend’s suicidal wife (Novak). After he successfully rescues her from a leap into the bay, he finds himself becoming obsessed with the beautiful and troubled woman…
- Rear Window: Alfred Hitchcock amply demonstrates why he’s been called “The Master of Suspense” with this both witty and macabre tale of voyeurism and murder starring two of cinema’s all-time favourites, James Stewart and Grace Kelly. L.B. Jeffries (Stewart), a photographer with a broken leg, takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbours during a summer heat wave. But things really hot up when he suspects one neighbour of murdering his invalid wife and burying the body in a flower garden.
- Harvey: James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd, a wealthy alcoholic whose sunny disposition and drunken antics are tolerated by most of the citizens of his community. That is, until Elwood begins to claim that he has a friend named Harvey who is an invisible six foot rabbit. Elwood’s snooty socialite sister, Veta, determined to marry off her daughter Myrtle to a respectable man, begins to plot to keep Elwood’s lunacy from interfering.
- Winchester ’73: Frontiersman Lin McAdam (Stewart) is attempting to track down both his father’s murderer and his one-of-a-kind rifle, the Winchester ‘73, as it passes among a diverse group of desperate characters, including a crazed highwayman (Dan Duryea), an immoral gunrunner (John McIntire), a savage young Indian chief (Rock Hudson) and McAdam’s own murderous brother (Stephen McNally)…
- Destry Rides Again: As Destry, a mild-mannered deputy who doesn’t like guns, Stewart is called to restore order to the hopelessly corrupt frontier town of Bottleneck. Though reluctant to undertake such an enormous task, he’s soon roped into action after meeting the seductive Frenchy (Dietrich), an alluring saloon girl who belts out unforgettable show-stoppers like “The Boys in the Back Room,” while winning the hero’s heart.