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directed by Allan Dwan
USA 1954
| Silver Lode tells the story of Dan Ballard (John Payne) and Rose Evans (Lizabeth Scott) who are about to be married when Marshal Ned McCarthy (Dan Duryea) and his deputies ride into town looking for Ballard. McCarthy accuses Ballard of having murdered his brother and has come to arrest him. At first the townspeople are on Ballard's side but gradually they turn against him especially when they believe that he has killed the town sheriff (Emile Meyer). Ballard tries to prove his innocence and expose McCarthy, who appears to be a reference to Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
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Theatrical Release: 23 July 1954 (USA)
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DVD Comparison:
VCI (Special Edition) - Region 0 - NTSC vs. Carlotta (Allan Dwan Coffret) - Region 2 - PAL
Big thanks to Gregory Meshman for the Review!
VCI (Special Edition) - Region 0 - NTSC LEFT vs. Carlotta (Allan Dwan Coffret) - Region 2 - PAL RIGHT
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VCI Region 0 - NTSC |
Carlotta Films Region 2 - PAL |
| Runtime | 1:17:03 | 1:17:12 (4% PAL speedup) |
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1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio |
1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio
Average Bitrate: 4.83 mb/s PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s |
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NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes. |
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| Audio | LPCM 2.0 (English) | English (Dolby Digital 2.0) |
| Subtitles | None | French, None |
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Release Information: Studio: VCI Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 13 |
Release
Information: Studio: Carlotta Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 12 |
| Comments |
It's strange to see that although VCI provides an uncompressed sound for their Special Edition of Allan Dwan's Silver Lode, the image is still using non-progressive transfer. We don't have VCI's previous release to compare the improvements, but we can compare this release to Carlotta's Allan Dwan boxset (reviewed HERE). VCI disc opens the image up on all four sides and colors tend to be redder. The interlaced transfer, from a probable unconverted PAL source, should not be too much of a problem on Blu-ray and DVD players that upconvert the image and the uncompressed English sound is a winner on this disc.
Joel Blumberg's monologues about Allan Dwan and John Payne (just over 10 minutes each) comtain some stills from films and of people he mentions with some brief clips from the films released by VCI, but it doesn't compare to the extensive material on French boxset, including 7-minute Bogdanovich audio interview with Dwan himself. The price for this disc is low, so if you are interested in just this film, the release from VCI should suffice. |
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VCI (Special Edition) - Region 0 - NTSC TOP vs. Carlotta (Allan Dwan Coffret) - Region 2 - PAL BOTTOM
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VCI (Special Edition) - Region 0 - NTSC TOP vs. Carlotta (Allan Dwan Coffret) - Region 2 - PAL BOTTOM
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VCI (Special Edition) - Region 0 - NTSC TOP vs. Carlotta (Allan Dwan Coffret) - Region 2 - PAL BOTTOM
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VCI (Special Edition) - Region 0 - NTSC TOP vs. Carlotta (Allan Dwan Coffret) - Region 2 - PAL BOTTOM
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VCI is interlaced - see combing
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VCI Region 0 - NTSC |
Carlotta Films Region 2 - PAL |
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