The House of Hitchcock Collection, the newly released limited edition Blu-ray collection from Universal Home Video, is in essence a repackaging of Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection first released in 2012, albeit with additional material including seven episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and three episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Hitchcock’s TV series from the 1950s and early 1960s.

Like the works of mystery and suspense writers like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, Hitchcock’s work is never out of fashion. Unlike Doyle and Christie, however, whose works are constantly rewritten and reworked for film and TV, Hitchcock’s work remains inviolate. Filmmakers remake one of his films at their peril. Unlike the myriad successful retellings of the tales of Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Miss Marple, no remake of a Hitchcock film has ever been successful, either critically or at the box office.

Hitchcock’s perennial popularity makes it difficult to believe that he has been gone nearly forty years, but he has.

Honors came to the Master of Suspense late in life. Although nominated five times for a Best Directing Oscar between 1940 and 1954, he never won. It wasn’t until 1968, when he himself was 68. that he received the Irving Thalberg award from AMPAS for which he said simply “thank you” and exited the stage.

Hitchcock was 71 when he received a BAFTA Fellowship Award, his only recognition ever from the British Film Academy in 1971. He was 79 when he was honored by AFI with their Life Achievement Award in 1979, joking to friends that he must be going to die soon. He was 80 when he was given an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth in Her Majesty’s 1980 New Year’s Honors.

Hitchcock made his final public appearance at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award presentation to James Stewart in March 1980, dying a month later.

The fifteen films in The House of Hitchcock Collection range from 1942’s Saboteur, starring Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane, through 1976’s Family Plot, starring Karen Black and Barbara Harris, covering most of Hitchcock’s films for Paramount and Universal plus the one he made for MGM.

Included in the collection are 1943’s Shadow of a Doubt, starring Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright; 1948’s Rope, starring James Stewart, John Dall, and Farley Granger; 1954’s Rear Window, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly; 1955’s The Trouble with Harry, starring Edmund Gwenn and Shirley MacLaine; 1956’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, starring James Stewart and Doris Day; 1958’s Vertigo, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak; 1959’s North by Northwest (the one from MGM), starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint; 1960’s Psycho, starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh; 1963’s The Birds, starring Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren; 1964’s Marnie, starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery; 1966’sTorn Curtain, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews; 1969’s Topaz, starring Frederick Stafford and Dany Robin; and 1972’s Frenzy, starring Jon Finch and Barry Foster. All are available separately as well.

1956’s To Catch a Thief, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, which was restored and released separately by Universal in 2012, is not included in the package.

Missing from this period of Hitchcock’s greatest productivity as well are such classics as 1941’s Suspicion, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine (originally released by RKO), as well as 1950’s Stage Fright, starring Jane Wyman and Marlene Dietrich; 1951’s Strangers on a Train, starring Farley Granger and Robert Walker; 1953’s I Confess, starring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter; 1954’s Dial M for Murder, starring Ray Milland and Grace Kelly; and 1956’s The Wrong Man, starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles; all of which were released by Warner Bros. All six films available separately from Warner Home Video.

The three legendary Selznick productions, 1940’s Rebecca, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine; 1945’s Spellbound, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck; and 1946’s Notorious, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman; were released as a package by MGM Home Video in 2013. Rebecca and Notorious were given bells-and-whistles Criterion Collection releases more recently. Hope runs high for a Criterion Special Edition of Spellbound. Perhaps next year in honor of the film’s 75th anniversary.

Other Selznick productions including 1944’s Lifeboat, starring Tallulah Bankhead and Walter Slezak; 1947’s The Paradine Case, starring Gregory Peck and Alida Valli; and 1949’s Under Capricorn, starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton, are available from Kino Lorber.

Earlier Hitchcock films, the original 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, starring Nova Pilbeam and Peter Lorre, as well as 1935’s The 39 Steps, starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll; 1938’s The Lady Vanishes, starring Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, and Dame May Whitty; and 1940’s Foreign Correspondent, starring Joel McCrea and Laraine Day; originally released separately by Criterion, were repackaged into Criterion’s “Classic Hitchcock” collection in 2016.

Going back even further, Criterion has released 1927’s The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, starring Ivor Novello and June Tripp separately; and Kino Lorber has recently released special editions of both 1929’s Blackmail, starring Anny Londra and John Longden; and 1930’s Murder!, starring Herbert Marshall and Norah Baring.

This week’s new releases include the recent live-action remake of The Lion King and the documentary David Crosby: Remember My Name.