Silent Era : Home Video Reviews

Silent Era Home Page > Home Video > The Kiss

Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett
and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved.

The Kiss
(1929)

This romantic drama, directed by Jacques Feyder, stars Greta Garbo and Conrad Nagel, with Holmes Herbert, Anders Randolf, Lew Ayres, George Davis, Symona Boniface, Allan Cavan and André Cheron.

Warner Archive Collection
2009 DVD edition

The Kiss (1929), black & white, 62 minutes, not rated.

Warner Home Video,
no catalog number, UPC 8-83316-12687-5.
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 5.0 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; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95 (reduced to $12.99).
Release date: 24 March 2009.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 5 / additional content: 0 / overall: 6.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from 35mm archival print materials, and is presented as originally televised on Turner Classic Movies. The print has a light amount of dust, speckling, and other minor print flaws.

The film is accompanied by its original synchronized soundtrack, with the occasional crackle and pop that is characteristic of early sound films.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION through . . .