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If anyone's cheap and in Canada (like myself), this set can be had at HMV for $89.99 CDN. I jumped on it, look forward to watching everything in this for the first time (aside from the brilliant Sunrise).

Well that's annoying. I would buy it too if I was in Canada.

I still haven't caught up with this box set, but some of you may be interested in this English-friendly German DVD --



from Edition Filmuseum, a label that releases many early films from German directors who later migrated to the USA.

The River (199) is a fine respectable transfer, and the supplements on disc 2 include three western shorts from the beginning of Borzage's career:

1915 The Pitch O'Chance
1916 The Pilgrim
1916 Nugget Jim's Partner (aka The Calibre of a Man)

Borzage not only directs the westerns, he stars in them, too. Clean sharp transfers each lasting about 24 minutes. The stories are moral lessons very much in the William S. Hart mold who was hot as a pistol at the time. So far as I know Borzage's westerns are not available anywhere else.

I bought mine used from a local collector but I find it sold on Germany's amazon:

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001EICCW6/dvdaficiona0e-21