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The Wrath
of the Gods

(1914)

 

Sessue Hayakawa became something of a Hollywood movie idol with his starring appearance in this proto-disaster film produced by Thomas H. Ince, with Tsuru Aoki, future director Frank Borzage, and an erupting volcano in support.

The film has been restored by the George Eastman Museum film archive.

coverThe Milestone Cinematheque
2008 DVD edition

The Dragon Painter (1919), color-toned black & white and black & white, 53 minutes, not rated, with The Wrath of the Gods (1914), color-toned black & white, 58 minutes, not rated, and Screen Snapshots, Issue No. 20 (1921), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated.

Milestone Film & Video, distributed by New Yorker Films,
MILE00108, UPC 7-84148-01084-7, ISBN 978-1-933920-078.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 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 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 foreign language subtitles, 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 18 March 2008.
Country of origin: USA

This Hayakawa double-bill DVD edition features The Wrath of the Gods transferred from the 35mm restoration by the George Eastman Museum film archive, coupled with their recent 35mm restoration of The Dragon Painter.

The features are supplemented with a Hayakawa appearance in a novelty short, the original script for The Wrath of the Gods, a stills gallery, an essay by Brian Taves, and the text of the source novel, The Dragon Painter by Mary McNeil Fenollosa. The features are accompanied by music scores by Marco Lienhard and Mark Izu.

 
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