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Captured on Film
The True Story of
Marion Davies

(2001)

 
coverThe Milestone Collection
2002 DVD edition

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001), color and black & white, 65 minutes, not rated, with Quality Street (1927), black & white, 111 minutes total, not rated.

Milestone Film and Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID1033MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-10332-8.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 4.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 16 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.99.
Release date: 17 December 2002.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 8 / additional content: 7 / overall: 8.

This DVD edition of the Timeline Films documentary Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001) gives a balanced overview of the previously maligned Marion Davies, who has recently been the subject of critical and fan reassessment. The documentary features narration by Charlize Theron and appearances by author Jeanine Basinger, author Fred Lawrence Guiles, critic Charles Champlin, Cari Beauchamp, actress Virginia Madsen, Bob Board, Belinda Vidor Holiday and historian Kevin Brownlow. The disc also includes a photo gallery (100 images).

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