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The Iron Rider
(1926)

 

Yakima Canutt stars in this Western actioner, directed by Jacques Jaccard, which also features Elsa Benham, James Corey and Lee Sepulveda.

Grapevine Video
2006 DVD edition

Branded, a Bandit (1924), black & white, 57 minutes, not rated,
with The Iron Rider (1926), black & white, 61 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 2006.
Country of origin: USA
This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

The film is accompanied by a compilation of early film music from a variety of preexisting sources.

We suspect that this home video edition might be a bit better than the Alpha edition noted below.

 
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Alpha Video
2013 DVD edition

The Iron Rider (1926), black & white, 61 minutes, not rated,
with The Outlaw Breaker (1926), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6943D, UPC 0-89218-69439-3.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 4.0 Mbps average video bit rate, 384 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 30 April 2013.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print. The resulting picture is soft in picture details and so dark at times that intertitles cannot be read.

The film is accompanied by a compilation of early film music from a variety of preexisting sources.

This DVD-R home video edition is not recommended.

 
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Other silent era YAKIMA CANUTT films available on home video.

Other WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

 
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