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Coquette
(1929)

This feature sound drama, directed by Sam Taylor, stars Mary Pickford and Johnny Mack Brown, with Matt Moore, John St. Polis, William Janney, Henry Kolker, George Irving and Louise Beavers.

Based the southern-themed play Coquette by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridgers, Pickford bullied her way to a win for her Best Actress Academy Award®. See if you think she earned it.

Warner Archive Collection
2019 DVD edition

Coquette (1929), black & white, 75 minutes, not rated.

Warner Home Video,
no catalog number, UPC 8-83929-67523-4.
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 7.6 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 10 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 26 March 2019.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 6 / additional content: 0 / overall: 6.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a good to very-good 35mm duplicate print, with soft picture details, moderate dust and speckling, and other minor print flaws.

The film is accompanied by its original synchronized soundtrack, which is of uneven audio quality depending on which reel it’s running.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film.

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