Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett
and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved. |
|
Michel Strogoff
(1926)
|
This epic French feature, based on the Jules Verne novel and directed by Viatcheslav Tourjanskii, stars Ivan Mosjoukine and Nathalie Kovanko, with Acho Chakatouny, Jeanne Brindeau, Tina de Izarduy, Boris de Fast, Eugène Gaidaroff, Henri Debain and Gabriel de Gravone.
|
 Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition
Michel Strogoff (1926), black & white, 168 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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; French and German language intertitles, permanent? English language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 12 March 2025
Country of origin: USA
|
|
This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
|
|
This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
|
|
|
Rare Films and More
202? DVD edition
Michel Strogoff (1926), color-tinted black & white, 168 minutes, not rated.
Rare Films and More, 6200, no UPC number.
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; French language intertitles, permanent English language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $13.99.
Release date: 202?
Country of origin: USA
|
|
This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from files lifted from an Internet streaming site or from another company’s home video edition.
The film is likely accompanied by a music score pirated from another company’s home video edition or a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
Note that this company apparently has a history of pirating other home video editions to produce their products. Be aware that purchasing pirated home video editions does not benefit the original edition producers nor the composers whose music is often pirated as well.
|
|
This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
|
|
|
|
Other silent era IVAN MOSJOUKINE films available on home video.
Other FRENCH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
|
