The Joyless Street
(1925)
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The Joyless Street (1925) is notable in the history of silent era film for a number of reasons. It is well-known as Greta Garbo’s final film in a brief European film career. Soon after this film was completed, Garbo was snapped up to star in films for MGM in Hollywood. It is a film that also distinguishes the early career of director G.W. Pabst, who would later direct an American actress who fled Hollywood to make films in Europe, Louise Brooks. — Carl Bennett
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 2002 Navarre Corporation edition
The Joyless Street (1925), color-toned black & white, 61 minutes, not rated, with The Kid (1921), black & white, 68 minutes, not rated, and The Extra Girl (1923), color-toned black & white, 69 minutes, not rated.
Navarre Corporation, 1630, UPC 7-41027-16309-4.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 1, 3 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 6 chapter stops, keep case, $9.98.
DVD release date: 16 April 2002.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 4 / additional content: 6 / overall: 4.
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The video transfer utilizes a very good but dark British 16mm reduction print that dates to the 1950s or 1960s. This color-toned print of The Joyless Street has previously appeared on home video in a cheap VHS edition from Madacy Entertainment. The print features a number of English language insert shots that possibly date to the 1920s. Some intertitles in the print are so dark that they are nearly unreadable. However, it must be noted that this is a heavily-edited print of The Joyless Street, although whether it was edited for its English language release or for the rerelease of the reduction print at hand is unknown. Several scenes and intertitles are missing, which confuses the storyline.
