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Rounding Up
the Law
(1922)

This western drama stars Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, Russell Gordon, Chet Ryan and Patricia Palmer.

Alpha Video
2015 DVD edition

The Eagle’s Claw (1924), black & white, 53 minutes, not rated, with Rounding Up the Law (1922), black & white, 57 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7667D, UPC 0-89218-76679-3.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R 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 3.8 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 30 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 7 July 2015.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 3 / additional content: 4 / overall: 4.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a dark 16mm reduction print that has a normal amount of dust, speckling, emulsion scrapes, frame jitters, and other print flaws. The video transfer leaves highlights a bit dark giving the whole picture a darkish brown tinge.

The film is accompanied by a music score compiled from preexisting orchestral recordings.

The is the only home video edition of the film we are aware of.

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