Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Midnight
Limited
(1926)
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This B-studio action drama, directed by Oscar C. Apfel, stars Gaston Glass and Wanda Hawley, with Ashton Dearholt, Sam Allen, William Humphrey and Mathilde Brundage.
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 Alpha Video
2019 DVD edition
The Midnight Limited (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with Eastbound (1930), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8199D, UPC 0-89218-81999-4.
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; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 12 March 2019.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print of the film.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music sources.
Probably not a great presentation but this is the only home video edition of the film we know of.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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Other RAILROAD FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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