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Get Your Man
(1927)
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This romantic comedy, directed by Dorothy Arzner, stars Clara Bow and Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, with Josef Swickard, Josephine Dunn, Harvey Clarke and Frances Raymond.
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 Alpha Video
2024 DVD edition
Get Your Man (1927), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8624D, UPC 0-89218-86249-5.
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 ? 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; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $8.98.
Release date: 27 August 2024.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
Cautiously, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Prowlin’ Productions
2004 DVD edition
A Double Dose of . . . Clara Bow, Volume 2, black & white, 116 minutes total, not rated, with Get Your Man (1927), black & white, 63 minutes, not rated, and The Primrose Path (1925), black & white, 53 minutes, not rated.
Prowlin’ Productions,
no catalog number, UPC 1-74135-72006-0.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 3.2 Mbps average video bit rate, 1.5 Mbps audio bit rate, LPCM 48 kHz 1.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; 10 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 2004.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a VHS videotape copy of a 16mm reduction print. Of course, the results are fairly low-resolution, flat and dark in shadow areas of the picture.
The film is accompanied by a music score compiled from preexisting orchestral recordings.
This edition is out-of-print and may be among the best of several cheapy (and illegal) editions, but we recommend waiting for a high-quality home video edition.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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Buyers’ Gallery Video
2004 DVD edition
Get Your Man (1927), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.
Buyers’ Gallery Video, no catalog number, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, PCM 48 kHz 2.0 stereo? sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops?; standard DVD keepcase?, $12.99.
Release date: 2004.
Country of origin: Canada
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This DVD-R edition from eBay retailer Buyers’ Gallery Video has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
We wouldn’t normally cover product from low-profile DVD-R retailers like this, but these are the only known home-video editions of this film.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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Other silent era CLARA BOW films available on home video.
Other silent era CHARLES ‘BUDDY’ ROGERS films available on home video.
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