Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Comeback
[Liebe im Ring]
(1930)
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This part-talkie drama features the famous German boxer Max Schmeling, with beautiful Renate Müller and Olga Tschechowa. Originally planned as a silent production, the film may have been released in Germany as a silent film with a soundtrack of synchronized music and a talking sequence consisting of a song sung by Max Schmeling.
By virtue of his 1936 defeat of Joe Lewis, Schmeling again became a boxing star, thus sparking fleetfooted American film distributor Rogers Pictures to revamp the German language film as a silent, with a synchronized music and sound effects soundtrack and fight footage narration, and rush reissue it to American theaters.
— Carl Bennett
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 Grapevine Video
2014 DVD edition
The Comeback [Liebe im Ring] (1930) [1936 rerelease version], black & white, 55 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10198-4.
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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 10 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $11.95.
Release date: 28 March 2014.
Country of origin: USA
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This remastered DVD-R edition has been digitally remastered from a higher-quality 16mm reduction print (than the 2009 edition noted below) of the 1936 American rerelease of the film, with the 1936 synchronized music and sound effects soundtrack.
The print includes English language intertitles and insert shots.
Assuming that this remastered disc is better-looking than Grapevine’s previous release noted below, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Grapevine Video
2009 DVD edition
The Comeback [Liebe im Ring] (1930) [1936 rerelease version], black & white, 55 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10198-4.
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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 10 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $11.95.
Release date: May 2009.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 3 / additional content: 0 / overall: 4.
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print of the 1936 American rerelease of the film, with the 1936 synchronized music and sound effects soundtrack. The print includes English language intertitles and insert shots, and has a moderate amount of dust, speckling, schmutz, and other print flaws. The video transfer loses image details in some highlights and in shadow areas.
The film is accompanied by the extremely low-fidelity synchronized music and sound effects track of the source print.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition has been discontinued
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
Love in the Ring [Liebe im Ring] (1930), black & white, 81 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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 ? 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, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other GERMAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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