Buster Brodie

8 films on Best Blurays1 in 4K6 in HD1 in SD

Buster Brodie (October 11, 1885 - April 9, 1948) was an actor who played a flying monkey in The Wizard of Oz (1939). He coincidentally shared the same exact birthday as Anna Laughlin who was the first to play Dorothy Gale on stage.

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There It Is (1928)

Supporting role · Directors: Charles R. Bowers & Harold L. Muller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Flicker Alley The Extraordinary World of Charley Bowers Blu-ray

City Lights (1931)

Supporting role · Director: Charlie Chaplin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

4k restoration. Superior to Germany Kinowelt or Japan Kadokawa, see caps-a-holic

Best Audio:

2000 Image Entertainment DVD

4.3

The Woman Accused (1933)

Small role · Director: Paul Sloane

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal DVD

Island of Lost Souls (1932)

Small role · Director: Erle C. Kenton

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray and MoC have the same restoration, but different contrast levels, Criterion seems to be better see caps https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=3412&d2=3413&c=1417

3.7

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Small role · Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

StudioCanal 4K

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray > StudioCanal https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=6600&d2=6586&c=2691

Best Audio:

2005 WB DVD

Audio Notes:

2005 WB DVD > Criterion Blu-ray > StudioCanal Blu-ray. Maybe 1998 LaserDisc better? See Blah-Ray

4.3

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Small role · Director: Victor Fleming

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

3D: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro

Best Audio:

1989 MGM LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

(caveat: "there's" in first "there's no place like home" utterance in final Kansas scene truncated)

3.9

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Small role · Director: Dorothy Arzner

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray 4K transfer

3.5

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Small role · Director: John Ford

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Blu-ray

4.2

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