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The Arizona
Express
(1924)
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This Fox railroad melodrama directed by Thomas Buckingham stars David Butler, Pauline Starke and Evelyn Brent, with Anne Cornwall, Harold Goodwin and Francis MacDonald.
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Grapevine Video
2002 DVD edition
The Arizona Express (1924), color-tinted black & white and color-toned black & white, 82 minutes, not rated, with Her Torpedoed Love (1917) [1924 rerelease version], black & white, 24 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10017-8.
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 4.6 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95 (reduced to $14.95).
Release date: 2002.
Country of origin: USA •
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print of the British or Canadian release version. The older analog video transfer is not very detailed but is only moerately contrasty with dense shadows and some featureless highlights that the color-tinting helps to disguise.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting low-fidelity recordings crudely edited together.
To our knowledge, this is the only available 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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Other RAILROAD FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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