Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Village Sleuth
(1920)
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This comedy-drama, directed by Jerome Storm, stars Charles Ray and Winifred Westover, with Dick Rush, Donald MacDonald, George F. Hernandez, Betty Schade and Lew Morrison.
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 Edward Lorusso
2024 Blu-ray Disc edition
The Village Sleuth (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with Jean Rescues (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Edward Lorusso, no catalog number, no UPC number.
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 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard BD keepcase; $30.00.
Release date: November 2024.
Country of origin: USA
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This BD-R edition, originally a Kickstarter crowd-funded project, has been scanned at 2K high-resolution by the Library of Congress from archival print materials.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by David Drazin.
Supplemental material includes a 1911 Vitagraph short starring Florence Turner.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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Other silent era CHARLES RAY films available on home video.
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