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The Street of
Forgotten Women
(1927)

This exploitation quickie, produced by L.M. Monsfort and thought to be directed by Donald Crisp (unlikely) or Norton S. Parker (more likely), purports to expose the human trafficking scheme.

Alpha Video
2017 DVD edition

The Street of Forgotten Women (1927), black & white, 53 minutes, not rated, with The Road to Ruin (1928), color-toned black & white, 41 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7965D, UPC 0-89218-79659-2.
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 3.6 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 20 June 2017.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 4 / additional content: 4 / overall: 4.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from an 8mm reduction print, copied from materials that show occasional signs of nitrate decomposition. As would be expected, picture details are quite blurry from the small-gauge print with highlight details nearly nonexistant. Shadow details are lost in a closed-up blob of black.

The film is accompanied by a soundtrack crudely compiled from preexisting orchestral recordings.

Reluctantly, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .