Louis Mercier

17 films on Best Blurays4 in 4K10 in HD1 in SD2 with no official release

By format

List

4 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock

4K · Disappointing

Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2024 Paramount "Presents" 4K

Video Notes:

Although there are reviews that called it disappointing. It is also regarded as a vast improvement over all previous versions by many others as well.

This is a problematic release, because while scenes like the aerial shots at the beginning looked pristine and shows new detail, many others are suspiciously identical across all three Blu-ray releases (the 2012, 2020 and this 2024).

Some defects on this are unfixed from the 2020 Blu-ray for some reason. (See this review and its discussion.)

Best Audio:

1996 Paramount Hi-Fi VHS

3.7

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal The Alfred Hitchcock Collection Vol 3 4K Blu-ray

3.7

Captain Blood (1935)

Small role · Director: Michael Curtiz

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Audio Notes:

(caveat: has a slight error)

3.7

Casablanca (1942)

Small role · Director: Michael Curtiz

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1984 Fox Hi-Fi VHS

4.3

10 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

Small role · Director: Frank Tashlin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK MoC OOP Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

UK MoC OOP Blu-ray is strongly preferred over US Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray: the color on Twilight Time looks very off and loses a lot of shadow details, overall just looks wrong see caps

Otherwise HD Streaming is available