Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Behind
That Curtain
(1929)
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This early sound film, directed by Irving Cummings, stars Warner Baxter and Lois Moran, with Gilbert Emery, Claude King, Philip Strange, E.L. Park, Jamiel Hasson, John Rogers, Edgar Norton, Frank Finch Smiles and Boris Karloff. This was the third Charlie Chan film.
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 Alpha Video
2025 DVD edition
Behind That Curtain (1929), black & white, 90 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8663D, UPC 0-89218-86639-4.
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; $8.98.
Release date: 25 March 2025.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.
The film is presented with its original synchronized soundtrack.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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Other silent era BORIS KARLOFF films available on home video.
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