Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Great K&A
Train Robbery
(1926)
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This Western comedy-drama, directed by Lewis Seiler, stars Tom Mix and Dorothy Dwan, with William Walling, Harry Grippe, Carl Miller, Edward Piel and Curtis McHenry.
Mix fans can rest assured that Tom wears his white Mickey Mouse gloves in this film.
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 Grapevine Video
2019 Blu-ray Disc edition
The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926), black & white, 63 minutes, not rated, with Never Again (1915), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R BDMV); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; LPCM 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard BD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 14 June 2019.
Country of origin: USA
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This Blu-ray Disc edition has been mastered at 2K high-resolution from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by a music score compiled from preexisting recordings, some of them scratchy LPs.
Supplemental material includes an early Tom Mix Western short.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film, a slight improvement over Grapevine’s 2003 DVD edition noted below.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) edition from Amazon.com. Purchase supports Silent Era.
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Canada: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) edition from Amazon.ca. Purchase supports Silent Era.
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This
Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) edition is also available directly from . . .
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 Grapevine Video
2019 DVD edition
The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926), black & white, 63 minutes, not rated, with Never Again (1915), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 6-60845-44104-0.
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; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 14 June 2019.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered at 2K high-resolution from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by a music score compiled from preexisting recordings, some of them scratchy LPs.
Supplemental material includes an early Tom Mix Western short.
This is our recommended DVD home video edition of the film, a slight improvement over Grapevine’s 2003 DVD edition noted below.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Canada: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is also available directly from . . .
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 Grapevine Video
2003 DVD edition
The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926), black & white, 63 minutes, not rated, with An Angelic Attitude (1916), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video,
no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10104-5.
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 6.2 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 2003.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 4 / additional content: 3 / overall: 4.
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print. The video transfer runs a bit faster than normal pace and is a bit dark, and the source material has a few exposure fluctuations, dust, speckling, vertical scratches, frame jitters and other print flaws.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack coarsely compiled from hissing preexisting recordings, some of them scratchy LPs.
This home video edition of the film has been replaced by the Grapevine 2019 editions noted above.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition has been discontinued and is . . .
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Other silent era TOM MIX films available on home video.
Other WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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