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That Girl
Montana
(1921)

This western drama stars Blanche Sweet, Mahlon Hamilton, Frank Lanning and Edward Peil, with support from Charles Edler, Claire Du Brey and Kate Price.

Grapevine Video
2009 DVD edition

That Girl Montana (1921), black & white, 68 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10369-8.
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 7.2 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; 14 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $11.95.
Release date: November 2009.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 4 / additional content: 0 / overall: 3.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a fair to good 8mm reduction print, with the many blasted-out highlights and blurry image details possibly making this one tough going.

The film is accompanied by a compiled music score of preexisting recordings.

Currently, our recommended home video edition of the film.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .

Alpha Video
2021 DVD edition

That Girl Montana (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with Lazy Lem (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8430D, UPC 0-89218-84309-8.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 5 July 2021.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.

The film is accompanied by a music score compiled from preexisting recordings.

Not recommended, sight unseen, but this could be the best-looking home video edition of the film available.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .