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The Virginian
(1914) |
This western comedy-drama, written and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, stars Dustin Farnum, with support from J.W. Johnston, Sydney Deane, William Elmer, Winifred Kingston, James Griswold and Horace B. Carpenter.
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 Passport Video
2007 DVD edition
The Cecil B. DeMille Classics Collection (1914-1926), black & white, 1622 minutes total, not rated, including The Virginian (1914), black & white, 54 minutes, not rated.
Passport Video, DVD-5090, UPC 0-25493-50900-0.
Five single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 4.1 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 mon0 sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 7 chapter stops; five-disc DVD keepcase; $19.98.
Release date: 12 June 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print.
The films are accompanied by canned music from a variety of audio sources.
One benefit to this low-budget collection is its inclusion of a couple of Mary Pickford films not available yet in high-quality home video editions, and the addition of a film directed by DeMille’s brother, writer and director William C. de Mille.
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