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The Golden Trail
(1927)

This B-studio western, directed by William Bertram, stars Dick Carter and Dorothy Wood, with Lew Meehan, Frank Austin and Gene Crosby.

Alpha Video
2014 DVD edition

The Golden Trail (1927), black & white, 58 minutes, not rated, with The Lure of the Range (1927), black & white, 46 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7289D, UPC 0-89218-72899-9.
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 6.2 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 28 January 2014.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 3 / additional content: 5 / overall: 4.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print that has a moderate amount of frame jitters, dust, speckling, and other print flaws.

The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting low-fidelity music sources.

Not a great presentation but this is the only home video edition of the film we know of.

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