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The Fighting
American
(1924)
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This romantic comedy-drama, directed by Tom Forman, stars Pat O’Malley and Mary Astor, with Raymond Hatton, Warner Oland, Edwin J. Brady, Taylor Carroll and Clarence Geldert.
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 Alpha Video
2013 DVD edition
The Fighting American (1924), black & white, 64 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7248D, UPC 0-89218-72489-2.
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 6.8 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; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 31 December 2013.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 2 / audio: 3 / additional content: 0 / overall: 2.
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a poor to good 8mm reduction print. Of course, the resulting picture is coarse, a bit dark and pixilated by prominent film grain, with dust, speckling, schmutz, emulsion scrapes, jumpy splices, stray hairs, and other print flaws.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting, low-fidelity recordings.
As this is the only home video edition of the film we know of, this is our recommended edition but the viewing experience is awful.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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