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Robert Emmett O'Connor

Robert Emmett O'Connor

40 films on Best Blurays1 in 4K24 in HD11 in SD4 with no official release

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Robert Emmett O'Connor (March 18, 1885 – September 4, 1962) was an American film actor. He appeared in 204 films between 1919 and 1950. He is probably best known as the warmhearted bootlegger Paddy Ryan in The Public Enemy (1931) and as Detective Sergeant Henderson pursuing the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera (1935). He also appeared as Jonesy (the older Paramount gate guard) in Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, as well as made a cameo appearance at the very beginning and very end of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short Who Killed Who? (1943).

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

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Small role · Director: George W. Hill

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WB DVD

Small role · Director: George Sidney

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Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Vincente Minnelli

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Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Hobart Henley

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Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Small role · Director: William A. Wellman

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WB Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 3 DVD

Small role · Director: Frank Tuttle

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Universal Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Gregory La Cava

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WB Blu-ray, 4K scan

Small role · Director: Charles Brabin

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Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Michael Curtiz

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Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Jack Conway

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Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from safety preservation elements

Small role · Director: Roy Del Ruth

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Warner Archive DVD

Small role · Director: John Ford

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WB Blu-ray

Best Video:

Warner Archive

Small role · Director: George Sidney

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WB Blu-ray

Small role · Director: John Ford

Video format: HD Streaming

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HD Streaming

Small role · Director: Richard Thorpe

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Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: William A. Wellman

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Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Vincente Minnelli

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WB Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Dorothy Arzner

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Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray 4K transfer

Small role · Director: Billy Wilder

4K · Solid
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Paramount 4K Blu-ray or Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
Old Paramount Blu-ray is arguably a solid alternative choice

Best Audio:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono

Audio Notes:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono is different version of the Blu-ray mono from the same old 2000 DVD transfer.

Additional Info:

The 5.1 remix on the 4K Blu-ray is an appalling remix done by going wild with artificially generated stems from Park Road Post who were given the surviving mono to separate. The experience is jarring and fidelity to original mix in terms of level balance, directionality and impact is nonexistent. Not only does this sound painfully weird, but the Paramount mixers then did whatever they wanted in terms of LFE, sound pans and effect changes.
The original mono mix was not restored and still needs it badly. The 4K master is filled with frozen grain examples coming and going plus some HDR issues in addition to the usual Paramount problems. It is simultaneously better and worse than the Blu-ray master.

Small role · Director: Wesley Ruggles

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Warner Archive DVD

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