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The
Merry Widow
(1925)

This European drama, based on the Lehar, Leon and Stein operetta and directed by Erich von Stroheim, stars Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D’Arcy, George Fawcett, Josephine Crowell and Tully Marshall.

Warner Archive Collection
2011 DVD edition

The Merry Widow (1925), black & white, 137 minutes, not rated.

Warner Home Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-83316-22719-0.
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; 13 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95 (reduced to $12.99).
Release date: 8 July 2011.
Country of origin: USA

This Warner Archive Collection DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very-good to excellent 35mm print and is presented as was originally prepared for broadcast on the Turner Classic Movies cable television network.

The film is accompanied by a music score performed on theatre pipe organ.

There is no supplementary material included on this manufactured-on-demand DVD-R disc. We recommend this edition.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
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