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Judex
(1916-1917)
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This Louis Feuillade serial thriller followed the successful Les Vampires (1915-1916). Taking vengeance on the morally corrupt banker Favraux, Judex (René Cresté) punishes all who attempt criminal activities.

2004 Flicker Alley edition

Judex (1916-1917), color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 315 minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, FA0002, UPC 6-17311-67239-2.
Windowboxed 4:3 NTSC, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, double keep case, $39.95.
DVD release date: 1 June 2004.
Country of origin: USA

Flicker Alley has followed their successful freshman effort, The Garden of Eden (1928), with this first DVD edition of the 12-part French crime serial. The edition is touted as presenting the most-complete version of the serial available, with an excellent new orchestral music score by Robert Israel.

Our first look at the disc reveals a set of very-good to excellent 35mm source prints, with light speckling, dust, and other very minor blips.

Also included is an 18-minute featurette comprised of scenes from the serial and a voiceover by Israel on his scoring of the film, and a booklet introductory essay by Jan-Christopher Horak.

 
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 French silent era films available on DVD home video:
Anémic cinéma (1926)
Au secours! (1924)
Ballerinas in Hell: A Georges Méliès Album (1898-1912)
Le ballet mécanique (1924)
Captain Fracasse (1928)
The Chess Player (1927)
Un chien Andalou (1929)
The Comedy of Max Linder (1907-1913)
La coquille et le clergyman (1928)
The Crazy Ray (1923)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1925)
Entr’acte (1924)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
La folie du Docteur Tube (1915)
Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913) (1896-1953)
The Italian Straw Hat (1928)
Landmarks of Early Film, Volume 1 (1904-1908)
Laugh with Max Linder (1908-1921)
The Lumière Brothers’ First Films
The Magic of Méliès (1904-1908)
Méliès the Magician (1898-1997)
The Movies Begin (1894-1913)
Napoléon (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
La roue (1922)
La terre (1921)
Les vampires (1915-1916)

Other silent era serials available on DVD home video:
The Adventures of Tarzan (1921-1922)
Beatrice Fairfax (1916)
Lightning Hutch (1926)
Mystery of the Double Cross (1917)
Officer 444 (1926)
The Perils of Pauline (1914)
Les vampires (1915-1916)
Tarzan the Tiger (1929)
 
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