Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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No Man’s Law
(1927)
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This Hal Roach western features Barbara Kent, James Finlayson, Oliver Hardy and Rex the king of wild horses.
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 Grapevine Video
2011 DVD edition
No Man’s Law (1927), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated, with Hungry Hearts (1916), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10468-8.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 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; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $12.95.
Release date: December 2011.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack by Chris Congdon.
Sight unseen, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 The Film Detective
2015 DVD edition
No Man’s Law (1927), black & white, 51 minutes, not rated.
The Film Detective,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $9.99.
Release date: 19 October 2015.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack of compiled preexisting recordings.
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this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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 Alpha Video
2015 DVD edition
King of the Wild Horses (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with No Man’s Law (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7581D, UPC 0-89218-75819-4.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 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; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $6.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 24 February 2015.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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 Sinister Cinema
2008 DVD edition
No Man’s Law (1927), black & white, 53 minutes, not rated.
Sinister Cinema, W344, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $11.95 (reduced to $8.95).
Release date: 27 May 2008.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack of compiled preexisting recordings.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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