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The
Red Lily
(1924)

This Parisian drama, directed by Fred Niblo, stars Enid Bennett and Ramon Novarro, with Wallace Beery, Frank Currier, Rosemary Theby, Mitchell Lewis and Emily Fitzroy.

Warner Archive Collection
2009 DVD edition

The Red Lily (1924), black & white, color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 81 minutes, not rated.

Warner Home Video,
no catalog number, UPC 8-83316-12538-0.
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 5.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles, 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95 (reduced to $12.99).
Release date: 24 March 2009.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition is as originally prepared for broadcast on Turner Classic Movies. The source material may have been a foreign-language print as it is missing its original main titles and intertitles, and new digital video-based intertitles replace them. The 35mm source print is excellent, with some dust and speckling, a fleeting moment of emulsion damage, and other minor print flaws.

The film is accompanied by a music score by Scott Salinas.

Recommended since this is the only home video edition we are aware of.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION through . . .