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The
John Barrymore
Collection
(1920-1928)

Contains: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Sherlock Holmes (1922), The Beloved Rogue (1927), and Tempest (1928), plus Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride (1925) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) [excerpt].

Kino International
2009 DVD edition

The John Barrymore Collection (1920-1928), color-toned black & white and black & white, 399 minutes total, not rated, including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), color-toned black & white, 73 minutes, not rated, Sherlock Holmes (1922), black & white, 85 minutes, not rated, The Beloved Rogue (1927), black & white, 98 minutes, not rated, Tempest (1928), black & white, 111 minutes, not rated, Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride (1925), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, and excerpts from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, K656, UPC 7-38329-06562-1.
Four single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; four standard DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $69.95.
Release date: 7 July 2009.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD boxset contains the previously available 2001 Kino edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), two new DVD editions of The Beloved Rogue (1927) and Tempest (1928), and the first quality home video release of the George Eastman Museum reconstruction of Sherlock Holmes (1922).

The films are accompanied by music scores by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, William P. Perry and Ben Model.

For our comparative reviews of the individual films in the boxset, see our Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on home video, Sherlock Holmes on home video, The Beloved Rogue on home video and Tempest on home video pages.