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SILENT ERA FILMS ON HOME VIDEO
Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Comeback
[Liebe im Ring]
(1930) |
This part-talkie drama features the famous German boxer Max Schmeling, with beautiful Renate Müller and Olga Tschechowa. Originally planned as a silent production, the film may have been released in Germany as a silent film with a soundtrack of synchronized music and a talking sequence consisting of a song sung by Max Schmeling.
By virtue of his 1936 defeat of Joe Lewis, Schmeling again became a boxing star, thus sparking fleetfooted American film distributor Rogers Pictures to revamp the German language film as a silent, with a synchronized music and sound effects soundtrack and fight footage narration, and rush reissue it to American theaters.
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 2009 Grapevine Video edition
The Comeback [Liebe im Ring] (1930) [1936 rerelease version], black & white, 55 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, 10198, UPC 8-42614-10198-4.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD-R disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 10 chapter stops, keep case, $11.95.
DVD release date: May 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print of the 1936 American rerelease of the film, with the 1936 synchronized music and sound effects soundtrack. The print includes English language intertitles and insert shots.
