Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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L’Homme du large
(1920)
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Marcel l’Herbier directs Jaque Catelain, Roger Karl, a young Charles Boyer and Philippe Hériat in this tale of the sea from a novel by Honoré de Balzac.
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 Gaumont
2009 DVD edition
L’Homme du large (1920), color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with El Dorado (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Gaumont, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; French language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; €29.99.
Release date: 7 October 2009.
Country of origin: France
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This PAL DVD edition presents the restored version of L’Homme du large (1920).
North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 2 PAL DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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Other FRENCH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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