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Below the
Deadline
(1929)

This independent production from director/actor J.P. McGowan stars Barbara Worth, Frank Leigh and Walter Merril.

Alpha Video
2014 DVD edition

Below the Deadline (1929), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7327D, UPC 0-89218-73279-8.
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 5.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 25 February 2014.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 3 / additional content: 0 / overall: 4.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print that is reasonably well-balanced but still dark in its shadow details. Some shots lose highlight details in faces. A significant portion of the left-side and bottom of the picture is cropped off (as is common among vintage 16mm prints). There is a moderate amount of dust, speckling, emulsion scuffing, and other print flaws.

The film is presented with a low-fidelity music score performed on piano and an electric organ.

For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.

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