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The Eagle
of the Night
(1928)

This late silent era aviation-western serial stars Frank Clarke and Shirley Palmer, with Earl Metcalfe, Josef Swickard, Maurice Costello and Jack Richardson. Unfortunately, not all of the 10-chapter serial has survived.

Grapevine Video
2009 DVD edition

The Eagle of the Night (1928), color-tinted and color-toned black & white and black & white, 110 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10360-5.
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; 7 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 9 October 2009.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 5 / audio: 4 / additional content: 0 / overall: 4.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from incomplete color-tinted and color-toned 35mm prints of chapters 1, 2 and 4 (two reels each complete) and chapters 3, 5, 6 and 10 (one reel only).

The film is accompanied by a cobbled-together soundtrack of preexisting low-fidelity film music.

For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the serial.

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

Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition

The Eagle of the Night (1928), black & white, 102 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: 201?
Country of origin: USA

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.

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