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Why Be
Good?
(1929)
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This late silent era comedy, directed by William A. Seiter, stars Colleen Moore and Neil Hamilton, with Bodil Rosing, John Sainpolis and Edward Martindel. Hamilton and Moore make an appealing screen couple.
It’s hard to watch this exuberant flapper comedy and not think of the impending stock market crash and will soon dampen all these characters’ jazz age flummery.
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 Warner Archive Collection
2014 DVD edition
Why Be Good? (1929), black & white, 81 minutes, not rated.
Warner Home Video,
no catalog number, UPC 8-88574-12841-8.
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), 7.0 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 7 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 12 November 2014.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 6 / additional content: 0 / overall: 7.
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