Flicker Alley followed their successful freshman home video effort, The Garden of Eden (1928), with this American DVD edition of the 12-part French crime serial. The edition, initially produced for presentation on Turner Classic Movies, is touted as the most-complete version of the serial available. The edition has been prepared from a set of very-good source prints that may (or may not) be 35mm, in a slightly windowboxed picture (framing shown above), with some moderate and persistent speckling, dust, and a few other minor flaws.
The serial is accompanied by an excellent new small orchestral music score arranged and conducted by Robert Israel, which lifts the presentation immeasurably.
Also included is an 18-minute featurette comprised of scenes from the serial and a voiceover by Israel on his scoring of the film, and a booklet introductory essay by Jan-Christopher Horak.
While the image quality isn’t superb it remains a very-good presentation on today’s high-definition monitors, especially on systems capable of progressive scan line doubling. Highly recommended, with kudos to Israel for the entertaining music score. The disc is now out-of-print.
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