Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The
Love Trap
(1929)
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Laura La Plante stars with Neil Hamilton in this Universal comedy-drama of social class distinction directed by William Wyler. We seen it all before, but La Plante turns in a charming performance that lifts this part-talkie film.
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 Kino on Video
2002 DVD edition
The Love Trap (1925), black & white, 74 minutes, not rated, with Directed by William Wyler (1986), color and black & white, 55 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K176DVD, UPC 7-38329-02622-6.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 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 5.8 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 DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 5 November 2002.
Country of origin: USA •
Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.
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This DVD edition has been mastered from a very-good to excellent 35mm print. There is the usual amount of dust, speckling and minor print flaws to be seen as no digital clean-up or stabilization has been performed on the video transfer.
The film is accompanied by its original synchronized music score and part-talkie soundtrack.
The disc is supplemented with an episode of the television series American Masters that features an interview with Wyler that was filmed only three days before he passed away.
As this is the only known home video edition of the film, it is recommended. The disc is out-of-print now but can still be found for a reasonable price as a used item.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
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 Grapevine Video
2011 DVD edition
The Love Trap (1929), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated, with KoKo’s Reward (1929), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: May 2011.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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