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The
Gloria Swanson
Collection

10 Fabulous Films
(1915-1931)

 

Contents: His New Job (1915), The Danger Girl (1916), Teddy at the Throttle (1917), The Sultan’s Wife (1917), Male and Female (1919), Don’t Change Your Husband (1919), Why Change Your Wife? (1920), The Affairs of Anatol (1921), Sadie Thompson (1928) and Indiscreet (1931).

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2007 DVD edition

The Gloria Swanson Collection: 10 Fabulous Films (1915-1931) black & white, 675 minutes total, not rated, including His New Job (1915), black & white, 30 minutes, not rated, The Danger Girl (1916), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Teddy at the Throttle (1917), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, The Sultan’s Wife (1917), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Male and Female (1919), black & white, 115 minutes, not rated, Don’t Change Your Husband (1919), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated, Why Change Your Wife? (1920), black & white, 91 minutes, not rated, The Affairs of Anatol (1921), black & white, 117 minutes, not rated, Sadie Thompson (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Indiscreet (1931), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Passport Video, DVD-5151, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (five DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed and full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; no chapter stops; double-wide five-disc DVD keepcase; $19.98.
Release date: 13 February 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This budget DVD collection has been mastered from 16mm and 8mm reduction prints. Identifying logomarks are superimposed over the lower right corner of the picture to discourage video transfer piracy but, who would bother?

The silent films are accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from dopey preexisting recordings. Annoying, at best.

The sparce supplementary material includes the short documentary “Hollywood Biography: Gloria Swanson” (25 minutes).

For our comparative reviews of the individual films in this collection, see our The Affairs of Anatol on home video, The Danger Girl on home video, Don’t Change Your Husband on home video, Male and Female on home video, Sadie Thompson on home video, Teddy at the Throttle on home video and Why Change Your Wife? on home video pages.

This edition is now out-of-print. Well, it's not much of a loss.

 
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