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Saturday Night
(1922)

Cecil B. DeMille directed this comedy-drama production that stars Conrad Nagel, Leatrice Joy, Edith Roberts and Jack Mower.

Alpha Video
2014 DVD edition

Saturday Night (1922), color-toned black & white, 95 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7511D, UPC 0-89218-75119-5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 4.4 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 28 October 2014.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 4 / additional content: 0 / overall: 4.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print. However, the windowboxed video transfer suffers from the high disc compression utilized to get a 95-minute film onto a single-layered DVD-R disc. The picture can be really tough going on a large-format high-definition system and would probably play best on a computer monitor with an image about the size of the still frame above.

This presentation is accompanied by a cobbled-together soundtrack of preexisting (low-fidelity) recordings that are sometimes contemporary to the film.

This DVD is hard to recommend but, to our knowledge, it is the only home video edition that is currently available.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .