Product Details

• Actors: William Boyd, Elinor Fair, Frank Coghlan Jr., John Miljan, Walter Long
• Directors: Rupert Julian
• Writers: Denison Clift, Garnett Weston, Garrett Fort, John W. Krafft
• Producers: Cecil B. DeMille
• Format: Black & White, Silent, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Televista
• DVD Release Date: October 7, 2008
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0018O6SEY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,554 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Yankee Clipper" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Studio: Music Video Dist Release Date: 10/07/2008 Run time: 87 minutes

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Televista offers inferior edition of an engaging film, March 28, 2009

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David Shepard (California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Yankee Clipper (DVD)

"The Yankee Clipper" (1927), a Cecil B. DeMille production directed by Rupert Julian, is highly entertaining hokum but it is notable because it was largely photographed at sea on an 1856 well-founded wooden sailing ship which passes almost perfectly as a real clipper ship of the period. Unfortunately, Televista's DVD edition is cheap and sloppy: their source material is a duped copy of a 16mm print, so the b&w picture quality leaves much to be desired; it is also quite incomplete compared to a competing and much handsomer Flicker Alley release of the same film in its anthology DVD "Under Full Sail." That the Televista version has a longer running time than Flicker Alley's is due entirely to the video transfer being at a very much slower frame rate (painfully slow, in my opinion -- there is no fixed, established running speed for silent films). The music on the Televista release is a "needle-drop" score from phonograph records which works well for some scenes and is completely inappropriate for others. In the interest of full disclosure, I restored the version released by Flicker Alley, so although I am not a disinterested observer, I am very aware of the relative completeness and image quality of the two editions mentioned here.