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The
Garbo Silents
Collection
(1926-1928)

Contents: The Temptress (1926), Flesh and the Devil (1927), The Mysterious Lady (1928) and surviving footage from The Divine Woman (1928).

TCM Archives
2005 DVD edition

The Garbo Silents Collection (1926-1928), black & white, 307 minutes total, not rated, including Flesh and the Devil (1927), black & white, 112 minutes, not rated, The Temptress (1926), black & white, 106 minutes, not rated, The Mysterious Lady (1928), black & white, 89 minutes, not rated, and The Divine Woman (1928) [surviving footage], black & white, 9 minutes, not rated.

Warner Home Video, 67472, UPC 0-12569-67472-1.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 5.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; closed captions; chapter stops; and one dual-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, 192 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; closed captions; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $39.95.
Release date: 6 September 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD collection features three Garbo MGM silents, alternate endings to Flesh and the Devil and The Temptress, audio commentary on Flesh and the Devil by Barry Paris, on The Temptress by Mark A. Vieira, and on The Mysterious Lady by Tony Maietta and Jeffrey Vance, with documentaries.

For our comparative reviews of the individual films, see our Flesh and the Devil on home video, The Mysterious Lady on home video and The Temptress on home video pages.

Supplemental material includes surviving footage from The Divine Woman (1928), from a Russian language release print.

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