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A
Texas Cowboy
(1929)

This Western drama, directed by the prolific J.P. McGowan, stars Bob Steele, Edna Aslin, J.P. McGowan and Grace Stevens.

Alpha Video
2011 DVD edition

A Texas Cowboy (1929), black & white, 54 minutes, not rated,
with With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre (1927), black & white, 74 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6510D, UPC 0-89218-65109-9.
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 4.2 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 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: 22 February 2011.
Country of origin: USA

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

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from an 8mm reduction print, which has vertical scratches with white speckling from a dirty negative. The video transfer is full of dust and schmutz. As would be expected, the picture details are coarse and blurry.

The film is accompanied by a compiled music score of preexisting orchestral recordings taken from LPs, pops, crackles and all.

Not recommended for quality but simply because this appears to be the only available home video edition of the film.

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