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The Mysterious Lady
(1928)

2005 Warner Home Video edition

The Mysterious Lady (1928), black & white, 89 minutes, not rated,
with Flesh and the Devil (1927), black & white, 112 minutes, not rated, and The Temptress (1926), black & white and color-toned black & white, 106 minutes, not rated.

Warner Home Video, 67472, UPC 0-12569-67472-1.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc and one dual-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 16 chapter stops, keep case, $39.95.
DVD release date: 6 September 2005.
Country of origin: USA

Our first look at this DVD edition reveals a full-frame, natural-speed video transfer from a very-good 35mm print that occasionally shows advanced signs of print decomposition, dark sections and missing snippets of footage. The film is accompanied by a music score composed by Vivek Maddala, as originally produced for Turner Classic Movies.

This edition also features two other Garbo MGM silents, alternate endings to Flesh and the Devil and The Temptress, audio commentary on Flesh and the Devil by Barry Paris, on The Temptress by Mark A. Vieira, and on The Mysterious Lady by Tony Maietta and Jeffrey Vance, with documentaries.

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 GRETA GARBO films available on home video.

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