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White Tiger (1923)

This Tod Browning crime film stars Priscilla Dean, Raymond Griffith, Wallace Beery and Matt Moore.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Anton Sanko.

Supplemental material includes audio commentary for Drifting by historian Anthony Slide and for The White Tiger by edition producer Bret Wood; and a fragment of the presumed lost Browning film The Exquisite Thief (1919).

This is our recommended home video edition of the film.

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The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Anton Sanko.

Supplemental material includes audio commentary for Drifting by historian Anthony Slide and for The White Tiger by edition producer Bret Wood; and a fragment of the presumed lost Browning film The Exquisite Thief (1919).

This is our recommended DVD home video edition of the film.

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This DVD-R edition has been prepared from a very-good 16mm reduction print with reasonable image detail and a fairly broad greytone range. In the last quarter of the film the picture gets a little flat and greyed in comparison with the rest of the print. This source material was provided by National Film Archive, Incorporated (whoever that is) and this represents a break from Alpha’s fairly routine practice of using substandard 8mm reduction prints for their silent film releases.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed on piano by Douglas M. Protsik. We suspect that this score is from the soundtrack of the source print, and it is a welcome change from the standard Alpha practice of cobbling music together from preexisting recordings.

Note: Our file copy of this release is not a manufactured-on-demand DVD-R disc but is instead a standard manufacture DVD disc. That said, there is no guarantee that discs purchased today will not now be an MOD DVD-R disc.

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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a good 16mm reduction print that is heavily worn, substantially contrasty, with blasted out highlight details, and quite speckled and dusty.

The film is accompanied by a number of preexisting orchestral recordings, edited to fit the action.

Shock of shocks, we recommend the Alpha Video edition noted above over this Grapevine Video release.

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