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The Mysterious
Lady
(1928)

Warner Home Video
2005 DVD edition

The Garbo Silents Collection (1926-1928), black & white, 307 minutes total, not rated, including The Mysterious Lady (1928), black & white, 89 minutes, not rated.

Warner Home Video, 67472, UPC 0-12569-67472-1.
One dual-sided, dual-layered, DVD disc, Region 1 NTSC DVD 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 5.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; closed captions, 16 chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $39.95.
Release date: 6 September 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD edition features a full-frame, natural-speed video transfer from a very-good 35mm print that occasionally shows advanced signs of print decomposition, dark sections and missing snippets of footage.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed by Vivek Maddala, as originally produced for Turner Classic Movies.

This edition also features two other Garbo MGM silents, alternate endings to Flesh and the Devil and The Temptress, audio commentary on Flesh and the Devil by Barry Paris, on The Temptress by Mark A. Vieira, and on The Mysterious Lady by Tony Maietta and Jeffrey Vance, with documentaries.