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Hot Water
(1924)

This feature comedy, directed by Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer, stars Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston, with Josephine Crowell, Charles E. Stevenson, Mickey McBan, Pat Harmon, Andy DeVilla, S.D. Wilcox, Fred Holmes and Genevieve the turkey.

New Line Home Entertainment
2005 DVD edition

The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Volume 3 (1920-1932), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including Hot Water (1924), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.

New Line Home Entertainment, N8448,
UPC 7-94043-84482-9, ISBN 0-7806-5291-6.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD 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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, English and Spanish language subtitles; closed captions; chapter stops; and one dual-sided, dual-layered (side A)/single-layered (side B) Region 1 NTSC DVD 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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, English and Spanish language subtitles; closed captions; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 15 November 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD edition has been mastered from a 35mm restoration print overseen by The Harold Lloyd Trust, which is among the best-surviving prints of this wonderful Harold Lloyd feature film.

While the collection itself has long been out-of-print, we still recommend this as the best home video edition of the film available.

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