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The Shamrock
Handicap
(1926)

This John Ford romantic drama, one his few surviving silent era films, features Janet Gaynor, Leslie Fenton and J. Farrell MacDonald. Beginning in Ireland and ending on the horse racetrack, this pleasing film shows Ford’s versatility as director and storyteller.

eMoviez
2009 DVD edition

The Shamrock Handicap (1926), black & white, 67 minutes, not rated.

eMoviez, no catalog number, no 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; $19.99.
Release date: 2009.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 0 / overall: 7.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print, which may originate from the 35mm print held by the Museum of Modern Art.

The film is accompanied by a music score performed on piano.

Better than most silent film DVD-R discs, we recommend this edition of The Shamrock Handicap.

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