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Moran of the
Lady Lady
(1922)

This nautical-themed drama, directed by George Melford, features Dorothy Dalton and a pre-fame Rudolph Valentino, with Charles Brinley, Walter Long, Emil Jorgenson, Maude Wayne, Cecil Holland, George Kuwa and Charles K. French. Play spot-the-future-star, looking for appearances by George O’Brien, William Boyd and ZaSu Pitts.

Flicker Alley
2018 Blu-ray Disc edition

Rudolph Valentino Collection, Volume 1 (1920-1922), color-tinted black & white, 140 minutes total, not rated, including Moran of the Lady Letty (1922), color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, distributed by MovieZyng,
FA-MD3-055, UPC 8-10162-03725-3.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R BDMV); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; LPCM 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard BD keepcase; $19.95 (raised to $21.99).
Release date: 4 September 2018.
Country of origin: USA

This BD-R edition has been mastered from a 35mm print held by the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed and conducted by Robert Israel.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film.

This Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) edition is available from
FLICKER ALLEY through . . .

Flicker Alley
2007 DVD edition

Valentino: Rediscovering an Icon of Silent Film (1918-1922), color and black & white, 226 minutes total, not rated, including Moran of the Lady Letty (1922), color-toned black & white and color-tinted black & white, 68 minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, FA0004,
ISBN 1-893967-32-8, UPC 6-17311-67329-0.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 7.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $39.98.
Release date: 11 September 2007.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.

The release of this two-disc DVD collection of Rudolph Valentino material is both a happy and sad occasion. Sad, for the unhappy survival condition and incomplete state of surviving prints of these films; happy, for the opportunity to view them in any state whatsoever.

The film has been prepared from a very-good 16mm reduction print held in the collection of Daniel J. Bursik and is presented in a natural-speed, windowboxed video transfer, with new video-based intertitles presumably because the source print had foreign language titles. As should be expected, the print has a number of issues including residual dust, speckling from the negative, emulsion scrapes and chipping, schmutz, and a slightly contrasty greyscale range.

The film is presented with an entertaining music score arranged by Robert Israel and performed on piano and violin.

Supplementary material includes a 12-page insert booklet featuring an essay by Emily W. Leider.

The DVD’s high video bit rate ensures that, despite how rough the source prints are, the disc will render the best-possible image, even on high-definition television monitors. Incomplete prints of films are rarely available on home video, so the occasion of the release of this DVD set is cause for celebration of the opportunity to view what is, at least, cohesive representations of these films that have been hard to locate or thought lost forever.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .