Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
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This early film version of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic features future director James Cruze as the good doctor and Harry Benham as the wastrel Hyde.
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 Alpha Video
2010 DVD edition
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), color-toned black & white, 46 minutes, not rated,
with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6382D, UPC 0-89218-63829-8.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 30 June 2010.
Country of origin: USA
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This budget DVD edition was mastered from a poor 8mm reduction print and holds no image details in the blasted-out white highlights.
The film is presented with a music score composed by Don Kinnier.
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