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The Road to
Mandalay
(1926)

This drama, directed by Tod Browning, stars Lon Chaney and Lois Moran, with Owen Moore, Henry B. Walthall, Sojin Kamiyama, Rose Langdon and John George.

Sinister Cinema
2024 DVD edition

The Road to Mandalay (1926), black & white, 38 minutes, not rated, The Road to Mandalay (1926), color-tinted black & white, 38 minutes, not rated, and The Miracle Man (1919) [fragment], black & white, 3 minutes, not rated.

Sinister Cinema, AA147, 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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $12.95.
Release date: 2024.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from an incomplete 16mm reduction print.

The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.

For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .

Silent Hall of Fame Enterprises
2022 DVD edition

The Road to Mandalay (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Silent Hall of Fame Enterprises, 244, 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; slimline CD jewelcase; $34.99 (raised again to $44.99).
Release date: 2022.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a subpar VHS videotape transferred from a 16mm reduction print (as is surmised from the publisher-provided frame capture above).

The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.

Way overpriced for the quality delivered, Chaney completists may just bite their lip through while ordering this obviously inferior disc.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available through . . .