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The Saturday Night
Kid
(1929)

This early sound comedy-drama, directed by Edward Sutherland, stars Clara Bow and Jean Arthur, with James Hall, Edna May Oliver, Charles Sellon, Ethel Wales, Hyman Meyer and Jean Harlow.

Prowlin’ Productions
2004 DVD edition

A Double Dose of . . . Clara Bow, Volume 4 (1924), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including The Saturday Night Kid (1929), color-tinted black & white, 64 minutes, not rated, with Call Her Savage (1931), black & white, 90 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 1-74135-72010-0.
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 2.4 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); LPCM 1.0 mono sound encoded at 1.5 Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 9 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 2004.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 2 / audio: 3 / additional content: 3 / overall: 3.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a multigenerational VHS videotape dupe from what appears to be a 16mm reduction print. The results look awful.

The film is presented with its original synchronized soundtrack, in all its hissing glory.

Supplemental material includes a Clara Bow sound film; and a worthless section of Clara Bow trivia.

A terrible-looking disc. Try some other bootlegged disc sold on eBay instead.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition has been discontinued
and is . . .