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A Woman of
Affairs
(1928)

This Greta Garbo and John Gilbert soaper, directed by Clarence Brown, features support from Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Hobart Bosworth and Dorothy Sebastian.

Warner Archive Collection
2020 DVD edition

A Woman of Affairs (1928), black & white, 91 minutes, not rated.

Warner Home Video,
no catalog number, UPC 8-83929-67531-9.
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 7.2 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 10 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $17.99.
Release date: 24 July 2020.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 7 / additional content: 0 / overall: 7.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very-good archival 35mm release print that is a bit soft (softer than the intentional soft Garbo gauze shots). Some dust, speckling and very minor print damage remains in the natural-speed video scan.

The film is presented with an orchestral music score by an unidentified composer.

We finally have a home video improvement over the 1992 MGM laserdisc edition and we now can recommend this DVD edition.

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