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Are Crooks
Dishonest?
(1918)
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This one-reel comedy, directed by Gil Pratt, stars Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels, with Snub Pollard, William Blaisdell, Gus Leonard, Dorothea Wolbert and Charles E. Stevenson.
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 Kino on Video
2004 DVD edition
The Harold Lloyd Collection (1918-1922), black & white, 207 minutes total, not rated, including Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K367, UPC 0-38329-03672-0.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 4 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $39.95 (reduced to $29.95).
Release date: 3 August 2004.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition of Harold Lloyd films was produced for home video by Lobster Films, Paris.
The film is accompanied by a music score performed on piano by Neil Brand.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition is available directly from . . .
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 Passport Video
2007 DVD edition
Smiles and Spectacles: A Harold Lloyd Treasury (1917-1947), black & white, 600 minutes total, not rated, including Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated.
Passport Video, DVD-5160, UPC 0-25493-51609-8.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (five DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 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; no chapter stops (within the film); double-wide five-disc DVD keepcase; $19.98.
Release date: 13 February 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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This budget DVD edition has mainly been mastered from 16mm print materials.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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Other silent era HAROLD LLOYD films available on home video.
Other silent era BEBE DANIELS films on home video.
Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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