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The Man Who Had Everything
(1920)

This comedy-drama romance, directed by Alfred E. Green, stars Jack Pickford, Priscilla Bonner and Lionel Belmore.

Grapevine Video
2010 DVD edition

The Man Who Had Everything (1920), black & white, 66 minutes, not rated, with Felix Minds the Kid (1922), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10409-1.
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 5.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 12 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 30 September 2010.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 6 / additional content: 3 / overall: 5.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a good 16mm reduction print, which is dark sometimes with plugged-up shadows and a few heavy middle greytones that leaves some pictures with nothing more than foreground people barely shining out from a sea of black background. The print is soft in image details, with some bright highlights, but the intertitles can be clearly read. Isn’t that something?

The film is accompanied by a soundtrack of compiled music performed on MIDI digital piano. It is better than low-fidelity compilations of old movie soundtracks.

This is the only known home video edition of the film available, which leaves room for a better-looking home video edition to be produced.

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