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Four Sons
(1928)

This World War I drama, directed by John Ford, stars Margaret Mann, with James Hall, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman Jr. and George Meeker portraying her sons. June Collyer, Earle Foxe, Albert Gran and Frank Reicher appear in support.

Fox Home Video
2007 DVD edition

The Ford at Fox Collection: John Ford’s Silent Epics (1920-1928), black & white, 607 minutes total, not rated, including Four Sons (1928), black & white, 96 minutes, not rated.

Fox Home Video,
no catalog number (boxset), UPC 0-24543-48324-3 (boxset).
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc (four DVDs in the set); 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 4.5 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 5.1 surround sound encoded at 448 Kbps audio bit rate, and Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 448 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional French and Spanish language subtitles; closed-captions; 25 chapter stops; four slimline DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $49.98 [boxset].
Release date: 4 December 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This first DVD edition of John Ford’s World War I epic has been mastered from the best-surviving 35mm materials.

The film is accompanied by a new orchestral music score composed and conducted by Christopher Caliendo. There is no audio option to listen to the original 1928 Movietone soundtrack.

Among the supplementary materials are galleries of the original theater program, production stills and advertising materials.

The disc is only available in the Ford at Fox Collection: John Ford’s Silent Epics boxset.

This Region 1 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .