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Black Dragons has a few meager buying options. These very old public domain movies often pop up in dollar bins and multi-movie packs so there could easily be releases out there that don't show up on a typical product search.

I only turned up a stand-alone DVD option and a 50 pack of “Horror Classics.”

I got mine in a pack of 50 “Horror Classics.”

Video:

1.33: This “full-frame” presentation is perhaps a bit below average for a movie of this age. Most notable is what appears to be some dark splotches along one edge. They are just unobtrusive enough to not be a pain in the eyeball although there are few moments where they jump out into the image a bit more. There is a good bit of trash and a persistent moving grain. To me it looks like the image is being projected on a road beneath a fast-moving vehicle.

Audio:

1.0 mono: The audio is bad enough to make the dialogue hard to understand at times.

Packaging:

This particular disc is housed in a cardboard sleeve contained in a Velcro-fastened box. You can read about the set as a whole in great detail in the Horror Classics (50 pack) guide.

Extras:

There are no extras of any kind.

Other Editions:

The solo DVD offers nothing that the 50 pack doesn't. Count on the quality and offerings being about the same as what I've already described.

Final Thoughts:

If you're collecting a lot of old movies like this, the 50 pack is the better bargain and offers everything you're likely to get from the solo DVD. The only reason to get the solo DVD is if you're really not wanting anything other than Black Dragons.