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The Eagle’s Claw
(1924)

This western drama, directed by Charles R. Seeling, stars Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams with Lew Meehan and Lafe McKee.

Alpha Video
2015 DVD edition

The Eagle’s Claw (1924), black & white, 53 minutes, not rated, with Rounding Up the Law (1922), black & white, 57 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7667D, UPC 0-89218-76679-3.
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 3.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 30 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 7 July 2015.
Country of origin: USA

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

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from an 8mm reduction print that has a small amount of dust and more speckling, with schmutz, emulsion damage and other print flaws.

The film is accompanied by a music score compiled from preexisting recordings.

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

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .