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Summary:

The road to yesterday: A frustrated wife realizes the reason she's sexually dysfunctional with her husband is that in an earlier life, during the reign of Elizabeth I, she was a gypsy who was burned at the stake.
The Volga boatman: A Russian Revolution tale concerning a princess who is engaged to a prince, but falls in love with a peasant.

Table of Contents:

• The road to yesterday (107 min.)
• The Volga boatman (120 min.).

Contributors:

DeMille, Cecil B. (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959

Goudal, Jetta, 1891-1985

Schildkraut, Joseph, 1895-1964

Boyd, William, 1895-1972

Fair, Elinor

Varconi, Victor, 1891-1976

De Mille, William C. (William Churchill), 1878-1955

Wilson, Lois, 1894-1988

Burton, Clarence, -1933

Passport International Entertainment, LLC

Passport Video

National Film Board Collection (Library of Congress)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Included Works:

Road to yesterday

Volga boatman

Miss Lulu Bett

Subjects:

Man-woman relationships — Drama

Wives — Drama

Husbands — Drama

Sexual disorders — Drama

Reincarnation — Drama

Princesses — Russia — Drama

Peasants — Russia — Drama

Man-woman relationships

Wives

Husbands

Sexual disorders

Reincarnation

Princesses

Peasants

Russia

Genres:

Feature films

Silent films

Melodrama

Comedy films

Drama

System Details:

DVD, all regions, full screen (4:3) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., NTSC.

Performers:

Cast: The road to yesterday: Jetta Goudal, Joseph Schildkraut, William Boyd.
Cast: The Volga boatman: Elinor Fair, Victor Varconi, William Boyd.

General Notes:

Title from container and disc label.
Set contains 16 black-and-white silent films directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
The road to yesterday originally released as a motion picture in 1925 ; The Volga boatman originally released as a motion picture in 1926.
Special features: "Miss Lulu Bett" (1921): Cecil B. DeMille's brother, William, directed this drama based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play about a young woman (Lois Wilson) who discovers that she's married to a man (Clarence Burton) who is already married (71 min.); DeMille newsreels; interviews with Charlton Heston, John Hart, A.C. Lyles, DeMille's secretary.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 298 min.) : silent and sound, black & whiteand color ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

CEC DVD

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 025493509090
Publisher Number, Passport Video (set): DVD-5090

OCLC Numbers:

137289646