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On the
Night Stage
(1915)

William S. Hart is featured in this early western directed by Reginald Barker, which also stars Robert Edeson, Rhea Mitchell and Herschel Mayall.

Alpha Video
2012 DVD edition

On the Night Stage (1915), black & white, 64 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP6851D, UPC 0-89218-68519-3.
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 7.0 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; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 30 October 2012.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 2 / audio: 3 / additional content: 0 / overall: 2.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a fair to good 8mm reduction print, which alternates from having deep, plugged-up shadows and some shots with blasted-out highlights. Image details are lost in the contrast and the blurriness. Dust, speckling, schmutz, and other print flaws are present.

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

Far from ideal, this is, for the time being, our recommended home video edition of the film. There has to be better surviving film materials than this.

This review was updated in 2026.

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