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Directed by Robert Z. Leonard 
USA 1919

 

The Delicious Little Devil (1919) is a delightfully risqué silent comedy starring Mae Murray and Rudolph Valentino (The Sheik), presented in a 4K restoration by Universal Pictures. Murray stars as Kitty Maguire, the virtuous daughter of a washerwoman who loses her job as a hat-check girl. She is forced to make ends meet as a dancer at a roadhouse cabaret, but she can only get the job by pretending to be Gloria du Moine, the notorious mistress of the Duke de Sauterne (Bertram Grassby). Mary falls in love with Jimmie Calhoun (Valentino), who is wary of marrying her because of her supposedly sordid past, and the film careens to a rollickingly funny conclusion as her true identity is revealed.

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A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the family's money, determines to embarrass her and show his son what she really is.

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Theatrical Release: April 13th, 1919

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Review: Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray

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Distribution Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Runtime 1:16:34.256         
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1.33:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 24,691,952,629 bytes

Feature: 20,014,479,360 bytes

Video Bitrate: 28.98 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

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DTS-HD Master Audio English 2030 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2030 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
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DTS-HD Master Audio English 1851 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1851 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitles English, None
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Studio: Kino

 

1.33:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 24,691,952,629 bytes

Feature: 20,014,479,360 bytes

Video Bitrate: 28.98 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

Edition Details:

• Audio commentary by film historian Gaylyn Studlar
• Blood and Sand (1922) trailer (2:03)
 • Newsreel footage of Rudolph Valentino's funeral (3:03)
 • Orson Welles Remembers Rudolph Valentino (17:08)


Blu-ray Release Date: April 6th, 2021
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ADDITION: Kino Blu-ray (March 2021): Kino have transferred Robert Z. Leonard 's The Delicious Little Devil with Mae Murray to Blu-ray. It is cited as "presented in a 4K restoration by Universal Pictures". I recall this as an extra on a Kino DVD of Beyond the Rocks from 2006 but this is a stellar upgrade. It has a yellow/green tint (turning brown-sepia in the final scenes.) It shows the inconsistencies of the source but has some striking moments of clarity and not a fatal amount of damage. Overall quite a pleasing appearance in 1080P for a film over 100-years old.

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On their Blu-ray, Kino use a DTS-HD Master two-channel track (24-bit) with a wonderful score by Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum that sounds excellent in the lossless. Kino include the English intertitles. Their disc is a Region 'A' Blu-ray.

Kino add a commentary by Professor Gaylyn Studlar of Washington University. She wrote Precocious Charms: Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema. She shares her knowledge of the film while narrating quite a bit broaching some deeper analysis as well. There is also a Blood and Sand (1922) trailer, some newsreel footage of Rudolph Valentino's funeral and a reasonably interesting piece as "Orson Welles Remembers Rudolph Valentino" running over 1/4 hour.

Mae Murray's The Delicious Little Devil is pretty fun and she is marvelously animated - a favorite Silent Era star of mine. This isn't much Rudolph Valentino-ish at all, it's all Mae. I welcome seeing her in this higher resolution and suggest Michael G. Ankerich's book Mae Murray: The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips. The Delicious Little Devil is a film I am happy to own via the Kino Blu-ray with the commentary and Welles' piece. Encouraged for those who appreciate Silent Era films.

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