Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Torrent
(1926)
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Greta Garbo’s first American film was directed by Monta Bell and costars Ricardo Cortez, Gertrude Olmsted, Edward Connelly and Lucien Littlefield.
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 Warner Archive Collection
2011 DVD edition
Torrent (1926), color-tinted black & white and black & white, 75 minutes, not rated.
Warner Home Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-83316-27661-7.
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; 7 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95 (reduced to $12.99).
Release date: 11 January 2011.
Country of origin: USA
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This Warner Archive Collection DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a high-quality 35mm source print.
The film is accompanied by a music score performed on MIDI synthesizers by Arthur Barrow.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION through . . .
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 Reel Vault
2022 DVD edition
Torrent (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Reel Vault, no catalog number, UPC 6-44827-44852-4.
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; $9.99.
Release date: 18 January 2022.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a score compiled from preexisting recordings.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era GRETA GARBO films available on home video.
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