Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Vicar of
Wakefield
(1916)
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This British adapation of the Oliver Goldsmith novel, directed by Fred Paul, stars Sir John Hare and Laura Cowie, with Ben Webster, Marie Illington, A.E. George, Margaret Shelley, Frank Woolfe, Martin Lewis, Lambert Terry, Mabel Twemlow and Jess Dorynne.
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 Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition
The Vicar of Wakefield (1916), black & white, 98 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 16 March 2025
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other BRITISH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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