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The Godless Girl
(1928)

From the opening title of the film we know we are in for a couple of hours of moralizing from social pundit Cecil B. DeMille. His purpose was to, as he saw it, counterattack the forces who sought to strip the youth of America of Christian beliefs.

2007 National Film Preservation Foundation edition

The Godless Girl (1928), black & white, 128 minutes, not rated.

National Film Preservation Foundation, distributed by Image Entertainment,
NATD3827DVD, UPC 0-14381-38272-3.
Windowboxed 4:3 NTSC, four single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 0, 5 Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 14 chapter stops, four keep cases with book of program notes in cardboard slipcase, $89.99.
DVD release date: 16 October 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This collection from the National Film Preservation Foundation includes a complete presentation of Cecil B. DeMille’s original 1928 silent version of his moralizing feature, transferred from DeMille’s personal 35mm print held by George Eastman House in a slightly windowboxed format.

The presentation is accompanied by a piano score performed by Martin Marks.

For information about other films in this collection, see our notes on the boxset.

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 silent era CECIL B. DeMILLE films available on home video.

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