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Directed by Ford Beebe / Ray Taylor
USA 1940
The Green Hornet is a fictional masked fictional crime fighter, originally created by George W. Trendle for an American radio program in the 1930s. The character has appeared in two Universal serials. In the first 13-episode serial, the city is faced with rising crime and increased racketeering activity. Intrepid newspaper editor, Britt Reid (Gordon Jones) becomes the crime fighter the Green Hornet to take on the bad guys. As far as the police are concerned, the Hornet himself is the criminal. This misunderstanding enables Reid to operate "outside the law" to battle evil and injustice. Working alongside the Hornet is the brilliant inventor/sidekick Kato (Keye Luke), the only person who knows the true identity of the Hornet. Watch as our heroes fight an infamous racket and put an end to the menace infecting their city. *** The city is overrun by racketeers - and the newspaper The Daily Sentinel could be on the forefront exposing the crooks ... if it wasn't for the paper's playboy publisher Britt Reid (Gordon Jones), whom it takes an aweful long time to convince and take his job as publisher seriously. But Reid isn't really the slob he might appear to be, at night he turns into masked superhero Green Hornet, and with the help of his Korean manservant Kato (Keye Luke) he takes out the gangs pretty much fighting fire with fire and posing as a mastercriminal himself to transmit he's meaning business. Excerpt from SearchMyTrash located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: January 9th, 1940
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Runtime | 0:21:31.039 X 13 | |
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1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size One: 43,615,659,891 bytesDisc Size Two: 31,893,752,111 bytes Average Chapter Episode: 5,704,286,208 bytesVideo Bitrate: 31.9 9 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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LPCM Audio English 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit |
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Release Information: Studio: VCI
1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size One: 43,615,659,891 bytesDisc Size Two: 31,893,752,111 bytes Average Episode: 5,704,286,208 bytesVideo Bitrate: 31.9 9 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details:
• I am the Green Hornet by Clifford Weimar (7:49) 8-page liner notes booklet
Transparent Blu-ray Case Chapters 3 X 13 |
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NOTE:
The below
Blu-ray
captures were taken directly from the
Blu-ray
disc.
I would say the image quality by comparison for The Green Hornet
is in the middle. Olive Films produced a few serials on Blu-ray
that were inconsistent - some excellent - some very pale. This 1080P The
Green Hornet
transfer - over two dual-layered discs seems a fair replication of the
elements - with the second reel of Chapter 9 unable to be obtained from 35mm
(see below.) No damage and the overall HD presentation was pleasing.
NOTE: We have added 74 more large
resolution Blu-ray captures
(in lossless PNG format) for DVDBeaver Patrons HERE
On their
Blu-ray,
VCI use a linear PCM dual-mono track (16-bit) in the
original English language. The Green Hornet Serial
has explosions and crashes often with stock footage and the depth is
unremarkable.
There is stock music credited to the likes
of
Hans J. Salter (Man
in the Shadow, Man
Without a Star,
The
Killer that Stalked New York, The
Strange Door,
Cover
Up, Man
Without a Star,
Scarlet Street,
The Land Unknown,
The War Lord,
The Mole People,
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx)
-
Frank Skinner (The
Appaloosa,
Madame
X,
Magnificent
Obsession,
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,
All That Heaven Allows,
Thunder Bay) -
The VCI
Blu-ray
repeat the 2009 DVD supplements the with 8-minute "I Am the Green
Hornet" by Clifford Weimar - an audio presentation focusing on the
history of the serial's development. There are also the same two 1/2
hour Green Hornet Radio episodes; 1939's "The Parking Lot
Racket" and 1940's "The Highway That Graft Wrote". There is
also a trivia and photo gallery that runs shy of 7-minutes and the
package has an 8-page liner notes leaflet with photos/illustrations and
an essay by Martin Grams Jr. (The
Green Hornet: A History of Radio, Motion Pictures, Comics and Television)
and Terry Salomonson.
Ford Beebe + Ray Taylor's The Green
Hornet
Serial
was based on the radio series. It
offers a non super-powered hero, akin to Batman, with a speedy,
futuristic, car, a few gadgets (mostly invented by Kato) and a barely
disclosed secret identity as a wealthy young man. It's pretty
fun with the typical 'cliff-hanger' chapter conclusions. It's so great
to drift back in time to such innocent entertainment. There's over 4
hours of it here. The VCI Blu-ray
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