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RKO Classic Romances Blu-ray
Millie
(1931)
Kept Husbands (1931)
The Lady Refuses (1931)
The Woman Between (1931)
Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)
Kino Classics and Lobster Films are proud to present five Pre-Code love stories from RKO Radio Pictures in the RKO CLASSIC ROMANCES collection. Preserved by the Library of Congress and restored by Lobster Films, these are tearjerkers that will tug every last heartstring. Millie is a grand melodrama about a divorce e (Helen Twelvetrees) who climbs the ranks at a luxe hotel, and whose tattered romantic relationships drive her to a life of independence. Kept Husbands circles around a bet made by a steel magnate s impish daughter, played by Dorothy Mackaill. She guarantees that she will get a plant manager (Joel McCrea) to marry her within four weeks. She wins her bet, but gets all the class issues that come with it. The Lady Refuses is a frank Pre-Code melodrama about a poor woman on the verge of becoming a prostitute (Betty Compson), who is hired by an aristocrat to woo his son away from a gold-digger. The Woman Between is a risque romance in which Lili Damita unknowingly enters into an affair with her estranged stepson (Lester Vail). In Sin Takes a Holiday Constance Bennett plays a poor secretary in love with her boss a womanizing divorce attorney. He proposes a sham marriage to Bennett to keep his lovers at bay, giving her what she wants in exactly the wrong way. |
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Theatrical Release: All 1930-1931
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Review: Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
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Distribution | Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | Millie (1931): 1:24:32.400 / Kept Husbands (1931): 1:16:08.564 / The Lady Refuses (1931): 1:11:47.428 / The Woman Between (1931): 1:12:42.066 / Sin Takes a Holiday (1930): 1:21:03.483 | |
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Video |
1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 46,957,934,213 bytesMillie (1931): 24,595,519,488 bytes Kept Husbands (1931): 22,163,625,984 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.99 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 48,343,762,121 bytesThe Lady Refuses (1931): 16,106,213,376 bytes The Woman Between (1931): 15,898,036,224 bytes Sin Takes a Holiday (1930): 16,141,056,000 bytes Video Bitrate: 26.50 Mbps / 25.99 Mbps / 23.49 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master Audio English 1794 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1794 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) |
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Subtitles | English (SDH), None | |
Features |
Release Information: Studio: Kino
1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 46,957,934,213 bytesMillie (1931): 24,595,519,488 bytes Kept Husbands (1931): 22,163,625,984 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.99 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 48,343,762,121 bytesThe Lady Refuses (1931): 16,106,213,376 bytes The Woman Between (1931): 15,898,036,224 bytes Sin Takes a Holiday (1930): 16,141,056,000 bytes Video Bitrate: 26.50 Mbps / 25.99 Mbps / 23.49 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • None
Standard Blu-ray Case Chapters 10 X 5 |
Comments: |
NOTE:
The below
Blu-ray
captures were taken directly from the
Blu-ray
disc.
On their
Blu-rays,
Kino use a DTS-HD Master (24-bit) 2.0 channel mono in the original
English language. The audio is, like the video, at the mercy of both the
original production limitations or the available sources. Dialogue is
imperfect, rough at times, but audible and the available subtitles can
be useful. The scores are by Nacio Herb Brown,
iconic Max Steiner (Mildred
Pierce,
Key
Largo,
Casablanca,
The Caine Mutiny,
Bird of Paradise,
Beyond the Forest,
Pursued,
The Fountainhead etc. etc.), plus Three Little Words played as
dance music at the nightclub and It's the Same the Whole World Over
sung a cappella by Daphne Pollard twice in The Lady Refuses,
Victor Schertzinger (Other Men's Wives), and Francis Gromon.
Predictably weak, but not fatal. The Kino
Blu-rays offers optional English
subtitles for all five films on their Region 'A'-locked discs.
The Kino
Blu-ray has
These are
Pre-code genre films - created before the censorship Production
Code (also knows as Hays Code) that was established in 1930 but not
instituted till 1934. They freely deal with more adult topics -
relationships, sexual relations etc. This alone makes them desirable for
fans of vintage era films. I enjoyed them immensely on Blu-ray.
A recommendation to lovers of this surprisingly subversive era of films!
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