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The Temptress
(1926)

2009 Warner Home Video edition

The Temptress (1926), black & white and color-toned black & white, 106 minutes, not rated.

Warner Home Video, 1000088116, no UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered? DVD-R? disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $19.95.
DVD release date: 24 March 2009.
Country of origin: USA

This edition in the Warner Archive Collection is likely identical in quality to the Warner edition below. We do not know for certain whether the disc is a factory DVD or an on-demand DVD-R.

USA: This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc is available directly from the Warner Archive Collection.

2005 Warner Home Video edition

The Temptress (1926), black & white and color-toned black & white, 106 minutes, not rated,
with Flesh and the Devil (1927), black & white, 112 minutes, not rated, and The Mysterious Lady (1928), black & white, 89 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, 24 chapter stops, keep case, $39.95.
DVD release date: 6 September 2005.
Country of origin: USA

Our first look at this edition of The Temptress reveals a full-frame, natural-speed video transfer from a very-good to excellent 35mm print.

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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