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Reviews of silent film releases on DVD home video.
Copyright © 1999-2008 by Carl Bennett. All Rights Reserved.
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The Toll Gate
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 1999 Image Entertainment edition
The Toll Gate (1920), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 73 minutes, not rated, with His Bitter Pill (1916), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated.
Image Entertainment, ID4728DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-47282-0.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD 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, 11 chapter stops, snapper case, $24.99.
DVD release date: 20 April 1999.
Country of origin: USA
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 Our first look at this early DVD edition of The Toll Gate reveals that is has been mastered from what appears to be a very-good 35mm print that is moderately scuffed, scratched and speckled. His Bitter Pill also appears to have been mastered from very-good to excellent 35mm materials.
Both films are accompanied by a music score performed on synthesizers by Eric Beheim.
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com. |
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca. |
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 2004 Sunrise Silents edition
The Toll Gate (1920), color-toned black & white, 75 minutes, not rated.
Sunrise Silents, TGWH-N (NTSC) and TGWH-P (PAL), no UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC or PAL, 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, $20.95.
DVD release date: 2004.
Country of origin: USA
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This budget edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print, and features a music score performed on MIDI-based synthesizer.
This Region 0 NTSC or PAL DVD-R is available direcctly from Sunrise Silents.
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2006? Sinister Cinema edition
The Toll Gate (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Sinister Cinema, W328D, 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, PCM? 2.0 mono? sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $11.95.
DVD release date: 2006?
Country of origin: USA
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This budget edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print and features a music score that may be pieced together from existing recordings.
This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R is available directly from Sinister Cinema.
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Other William S. Hart films available on DVD home video:
The Bargain (1914)
Blue Blazes Rawden (1918)
The Cradle of Courage (1920)
The Films of William S. Hart (1915)
Hell’s Hinges (1916)
The Return of ‘Draw’ Egan (1916)
The Square Deal Man (1917)
Tumbleweeds (1925)
Wagon Tracks (1919)
Other silent era western films available on DVD home video:
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1914)
Behind Two Guns (1924)
Born to Battle (1927)
The Buckaroo Kid (1926)
Bucking Broadway (1917)
Custer’s Last Fight (1912)
The Deerslayer (1920)
The Devil Horse (1926)
The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917)
The Iron Horse (1924)
Jesse James Under the Black Flag (1921)
Just Tony (1922)
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
The Man from Texas (1915)
The Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)
Pioneers of the West (1927)
Redskin (1929)
The Son-of-a-Gun! (1918)
The Squaw Man (1914)
Straight Shooting (1917)
Thundering Hoofs (1924)
The Vanishing American (1925)
Wild Beauty (1927)
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| William S. Hart filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List |
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