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Across to
Singapore

(1928)

 

This MGM remake of All the Brothers Were Valiant stars Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Ernest Torrence, Frank Currier and Anna May Wong.

Four New England brothers take to the sea, with two of them (Torrence and Novarro) at odds over their love for the same girl (Crawford).

coverWarner Archive Collection
2009 DVD edition

Across to Singapore (1928), black & white, 85 minutes, not rated.

Warner Home Video,
no catalog number, UPC 8-83316-19677-9.
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 6.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95 (reduced to $12.99).
Release date: 17 November 2009.
Country of origin: USA

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

This DVD-R edition has transferred full-frame from a very-good 35mm print, but there are a number of moments of distracting nitrate print decomposition. As this may well be the only surviving 35mm print material of this film, we must accept the print as is since it is better to be able to view the film is this condition rather than not at all.

The film is accompanied by the same anonymous piano music score that accompanied the film’s broadcast on Turner Classic Movies.

Note that some collectors have experienced difficulties playing some DVD-R discs from the Warner Archive Collection. We experienced no problems with this disc on our main Blu-ray Disc reviewing player or on the DVD drive in our Macintosh computer.

 
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