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The Salvation
Hunters
(1925)

This independent production, directed by Josef von Sternberg, features George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale, Bruce Guerin, Otto Matiesen, Nellie Bly Baker, Olaf Hytten and Stuart Holmes.

Edition Filmmuseum
2016 DVD edition

The Salvation Hunters (1925), black & white, 70 minutes, not rated, with The Case of Lena Smith (1929) [fragments], black & white, 4 minutes, not rated.

Edition Filmmuseum, 105,
UPC/EAN 9-783958-601055, ISBN 978-3-95860-105.5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (720 x 480 pixels) anamorphic interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional German and French language subtitles; chapter stops; 20-page insert booklet; standard DVD keepcase; €19,95.
Release date: October 2016.
Country of origin: Germany

This DVD edition has been mastered from an archival 35mm print.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed by Siegfried Friedrich.

Supplemental material includes “Josef von Sternberg, Salvation Hunter” (2016), a video essay by film historian Janet Bergstrom; and an insert booklet with an preface by Alexander Horwath, an essay “‘Photographing a Thought,’ Josef von Sternberg’s The Salvation Hunter” by Janet Bergstram, and notes on the music score “Photographing Time: On the new score for The Salvation Hunters by Siegfried Friedrich.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

This Region 0 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .

Other silent era JOSEF VON STERNBERG films available on home video.

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