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Below the
Deadline
(1929)
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This independent production from director/actor J.P. McGowan stars Barbara Worth, Frank Leigh and Walter Merril.
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 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 image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 5.0 Mbps average video bit rate, 384 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 25 February 2014.
Country of origin: USA
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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.
The film is presented with a music score compiled from preexisting recorded sources.
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Other silent era J.P. McGOWAN films available on home video.
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