This DVD edition of Frank Borzage’s The River (1928) has been mastered from a good to very-good Movietone 35mm duplicate print (the picture being cropped to an approximate 1.20:1 ratio).

Some collectors have reported scuffed discs that are packaged in die-cut pockets within the binder, and problems playing the double-sided 7th Heaven/The River disc. This disc packaging choice has been a disturbing trend in larger boxsets like this one and the plastic-slipcased Hitchcock collection with their die-cut disc pockets within stiff cardboard pages. Our own copy of this set has presented no playback problems with the discs on Sony and Panasonic BD players. Others have complained that the set is bulky at seven pounds and hard to handle, with its large binder and two full-size books.

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The films are presented with music scores by Günter A. Buchwald performed on piano, violin and viola.

The supplemental material includes a stills archive from early Borzage films and The River, and DVD-ROM files including contemporary documents and information on The River and Borzage’s early films, including writings by Hervé Dumont.

This high-quality edition is recommended to all with a PAL disc player. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition. Those who have NTSC-only players will want to acquire the Murnau, Borzage and Fox boxset noted above to collect The River and the Janet Bergstrom documentary on Murnau and Borzage.

This Region 0 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .