- Format: Black & White, Silent, NTSC
- Language: English
- Region: All Regions
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Morningstar Ent.
- Release Date: July 22 2008
- Run Time: 88 minutes
- ASIN: B0018O6SEY
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #60,555 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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The maritime rivalry between the United States and Great Britain in the middle decades of the nineteenth century has been used as the basis for the story, which begins when the youthful Queen Victoria bids God-speed to Lord Huntington, whose clipper is about to sail on her maiden voyage to China. From Boston, The Yankee Clipper also sets sail for Foochow, under command of her owner's son, Hal Winslow (played by a pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd). In the Orient he meets Jocelyn Huntington, unmasks her craven fiancé, falls in love with her, and enters the Yankee Clipper in a race to Boston with the British vessel, the stake being Foochow's tea trade. A silent masterpiece from producer Cecil B. DeMille.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Televista offers inferior edition of an engaging film, Mar 28 2009
By David Shepard - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Yankee Clipper (DVD)
"The Yankee Clipper" (1927), a Cecil B. DeMille production directed by Rupert Julian, is highly entertaining hokum but it is notable because it was largely photographed at sea on an 1856 well-founded wooden sailing ship which passes almost perfectly as a real clipper ship of the period. Unfortunately, Televista's DVD edition is cheap and sloppy: their source material is a duped copy of a 16mm print, so the b&w picture quality leaves much to be desired; it is also quite incomplete compared to a competing and much handsomer Flicker Alley release of the same film in its anthology DVD "Under Full Sail." That the Televista version has a longer running time than Flicker Alley's is due entirely to the video transfer being at a very much slower frame rate (painfully slow, in my opinion -- there is no fixed, established running speed for silent films). The music on the Televista release is a "needle-drop" score from phonograph records which works well for some scenes and is completely inappropriate for others. In the interest of full disclosure, I restored the version released by Flicker Alley, so although I am not a disinterested observer, I am very aware of the relative completeness and image quality of the two editions mentioned here.
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