Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Dance of Life
(1929)
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This early sound film, directed by John Cromwell and Edward Sutherland, stars Hal Skelly and Nancy Carroll, with Dorothy Revier, Ralph Theodore, Charles D. Brown, Al St. John, May Boley, Oscar Levant, Gladys Du Bois, James Quinn, James Farley and George Irving.
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 Alpha Video
2025 DVD edition
The Dance of Life (1929), black & white, 111 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8662D, UPC 0-89218-86629-5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $8.98.
Release date: 25 March 2025.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by its original synchronized soundtrack.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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