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The Single
Standard
(1929)

This Greta Garbo vehicle, directed by John S. Robertson, features Nils Asther, John Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian and Lane Chandler.

Warner Archive Collection
2009 DVD edition

The Single Standard (1929), black & white, 73 minutes, not rated.

Warner Home Video,
no catalog number, UPC 8-83316-12694-3.
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; 7 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 available directly from the Warner Home Video website, as originally prepared for broadcast on Turner Classic Movies.

The film is accompanied by its original 1929 synchronized music and sound effects soundtrack.

This is the only known home video edition of the film we are aware of and it is recommended.

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

Other silent era GRETA GARBO films available on home video.

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