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The Chess Player
(1927)

2003 Milestone Film & Video edition

The Chess Player (1927), color-tinted black & white, 140 minutes, not rated.

Milestone Film & Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID1980MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-19802-7.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-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, 18 chapter stops, keep case, $29.99.
DVD release date: 29 July 2003.
Country of origin: USA

This edition of Raymond Bernard’s epic film has been mastered from Photoplay Productions’ 35mm restoration print, copied from first-generation nitrate prints struck from the original 35mm nitrate negative, as prepared for broadcast on Thames Television in England. The results are very-good.

The supplemental material includes an audio interview with Tom Standage, an original French press kit gallery (11 images), a text interview with director Raymond Bernard (only available on the disc itself as a PDF), and a stills gallery (24 images).

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 FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

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