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Four Sons
(1928)
on

2007 Fox Home Video edition

Four Sons (1928), black & white, 96 minutes, not rated.

Fox Home Video, no catalog number (boxset), UPC 0-24543-48324-3 (boxset).
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, optional French and Spanish language subtitles, closed-captions, 25 chapter stops, slimline keep case, $49.98 (boxset).
DVD release date: 4 December 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This first DVD edition of John Ford’s World War I epic has been mastered from the best-surviving 35mm materials.

The film is accompanied by a new orchestral music score composed and conducted by Christopher Caliendo. There is no audio option to listen to the original 1928 Movietone soundtrack. Among the supplementary materials are galleries of the original theater program, production stills and advertising materials.

The disc is only available in the Ford at Fox Collection: John Ford’s Silent Epics boxset.

 
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other silent era John Ford films available on DVD home video:
Bucking Broadway (1917)
The Ford at Fox Collection: John Ford’s Silent Epics (1920-1928)
Hangman’s House (1928)
The Iron Horse (1924)
Just Pals (1920)
Straight Shooting (1917)
Three Bad Men (1926)
 
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