Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett
and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved. |
|
Thundering
Hoofs
(1924)
|
This may be the only surviving intact feature-length Western starring Fred Thomson. Charles Hill Mailes and William Lowery support.
|
 Grapevine Video
2010 DVD edition
Thundering Hoofs (1924), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated, with Galloping Gallagher (1924), black & white, 35 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10103-8.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 2010.
Country of origin: USA
|
|
This DVD-R edition of Thundering Hoofs has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.
Sight unseen, we recommend this home video editon of the film over others.
|
|
This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
|
|
|
 TeleVista
2009 DVD edition
Thundering Hoofs (1924), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated.
TeleVista, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-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 4.5 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 12 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 28 April 2009.
Country of origin: USA •
|
It should be no surprise that this DVD edition from TeleVista is not worth the money asked. The disc has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print that is only of good quality, and produces a picture that that is full of grainy video transfer artifacts.
The film is presented with a soundtrack of preexisting orchestral recordings.
|
This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition is available from
TELEVISTA through . . .
|
|
|
 TeleVista
2009 DVD edition
Silent Western Classics (1924),
black & white, 130 minutes total, not rated,
including Thundering Hoofs (1924), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated.
TeleVista, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 23 June 2009.
Country of origin: USA
|
|
This DVD edition of Thundering Hoofs should be of the same quality as the TeleVista edition noted above.
Way overpriced for the low quality of the product.
|
This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
|
|
|
 Alpha Video
2021 DVD edition
Thundering Hoofs (1924), black & white, 70 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8436, UPC 0-89218-84369-2.
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 mono 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: 5 July 2021.
Country of origin: USA
|
|
This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
|
This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
|
|
|
 Sinister Cinema
200? DVD edition
Thundering Hoofs (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Sinister Cinema, W441, no 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $11.95 (reduced to $8.95).
Release date: 200?.
Country of origin: USA
|
|
This DVD-R edition has been mastered from an 8mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack of preexisting recordings.
|
|
This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
|
|
|
|
Other WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
|
