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The Silent Western
in Two Reels
Volume 1
(1920-1927)

Contents: Get Your Man (1920), Fight It Out (1920), Ridin’ Mad (1924) [abridged 1931 rerelease version], Battling Travers (1925) The Ore Raiders (1927).

This collection of short westerns is highlighted by the appearances of Yakima Canutt and Hoot Gibson. Of note, The Ore Raiders was directed by William Wyler.

Grapevine Video
2006 DVD edition

The Silent Western in Two Reels, Volume 1 (1920-1927), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 113 minutes total, not rated, including Get Your Man (1920), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Fight It Out (1920), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Ridin’ Mad (1924) [abridged 1931 rerelease version], black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, Battling Travers (1925), black & white, 26 minutes, not rated, and The Ore Raiders (1927), black & white, 26 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10234-9.
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 5.0 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; 20 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 2006.
Country of origin: USA •

Ratings (1-10): video: 5 / audio: 5 / additional content: 0 / overall: 5.

This DVD-R collection of western genre shorts from the 1920s have all been mastered from 16mm reduction prints featuring good to very-good greyscale ranges and image detail.

The presentations are accompanied by music scores from preexisting recordings.

For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in this collection, see our Ridin’ Mad on home video page.

We recommend this disc since, to our knowledge, these films are not available on DVD home video anywhere else (except for Ridin’ Mad).

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .