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Just Off Broadway
(1929)
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This low-budget crime drama, directed by Frank O’Connor, stars Ann Christy, Donald Keith, Larry Steers, De Sacia Mooers and Jack Tanner.
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 Alpha Video
2015 DVD edition
Just Off Broadway (1929), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated, with The Final Extra (1927), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7713D, UPC 0-89218-77139-1.
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 4.2 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 6 October 2015.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print. The video transfer is quite dark in its shadow details and the picture is a bit soft.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings (some of them scratchy LPs).
This is the only home video edition of the film that we are aware of.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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Other CRIME FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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