In "A Man Betrayed" (1936), directed by John H. Auer, honest stock salesman Frank Powell seeks to verify his merchandise's authenticity, prompting his employer's suicide. The employer's crooked partners hire gangsters to make the death appear as murder, framing Frank to cover their fraud. Wrongfully convicted, Frank is sent to prison but escapes when other gangsters break out a member he's handcuffed to. Frank, aided by his brother Curtis, a former missionary, sets out to prove his innocence and expose the real culprits behind the fraudulent schemes and his employer's death.
I have included both the enhanced black & white and colourised versions in this upload. If you would like to try the colourised version, you can skip to 00:53:53
I downloaded the film from the Archive. I first upscaled this film to FHD using standard AI enhancing. I also used 70% facial AI enhancement. That gave me the enhanced black and white version, which I then colourised and lowered the saturation. Using iMove, I stitched both versions into the same upload with some samples of the process.
This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed.
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