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Shore Leave
(1925)
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This nautical drama features Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Mackaill in the second of their starring pairings. Barthelmess gives a relatively light comic performance through his usual stoicism.
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 Grapevine Video
2009 DVD edition
Shore Leave (1925), black & white, 90 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10368-1.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 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; 14 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: November 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very-good Hollywood Film Enterprises 16mm reduction print. Some shots are quite light (Mackaill sitting on the dock), and there is a noticable amount of dust. The slightly windowboxed video transfer will appear as full-frame on most televisions.
The film is accompanied by a custom piano music score that sounds like the William Perry performances of the 1970s.
This OK edition, with its OK piano score, will do and is recommended until a better edition (hopefully from 35mm material) is released.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era RICHARD BARTHELMESS films available on home video.
Other NAUTICAL FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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