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Cobra
(1925)

1999 Image Entertainment edition

Cobra (1925), black & white, 75 minutes, not rated.

Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID5662DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-56622-2.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, snapper case, $24.99.
DVD release date: 3 August 1999.
Country of origin: USA

We have not viewed this disc. The video transfer was made at the visually-correct speed of 22 frames per second. The presentation features a music score compiled by Rodney Sauer and Susan Hall from period arrangements.

 
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
 
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

2009 Passport Video edition

The Rudolph Valentino Collection (1918-1925),
black & white, 420 minutes total, not rated,
including Cobra (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated,
with A Society Sensation (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Married Virgin (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Sheik (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Blood and Sand (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Rudolph Valentino and His 88 American Beauties (1923), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, and The Eagle (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Passport Video, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, three single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, multidisc keep case, $19.98.
DVD release date: 11 August 2009.
Country of origin: USA

This three-disc collection of Rudolph Valentino films may have been mastered from 16mm reduction prints. All of the films in the collection have previously appeared on DVD in high-quality editions.

 
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
 
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.
Other RUDOLPH VALENTINO films available on home video.
 
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