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Howard Lang

Howard Lang

10 films on Best Blurays3 in 4K7 in HD

Howard Lang photo

Howard Lang (born Donald Yarranton; 20 March 1911 - 11 December 1989) was an English actor known for playing Captain William Baines in the BBC nautical drama The Onedin Line.

Biography from TMDB

3 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Small role · Director: Robert Wise

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Charles Crichton

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: William Wyler

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1991 MGM LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

The 4K Blu-ray 5.0 is the original mix, but more muffled than LaserDisc and even the previous Blu-ray's gentle remix. The Atmos mix is revisionist.

Additional Info:

The 50th Anniversary box set has some exclusive extras.

1991 LaserDisc is Dolby Stereo matrix encoded from the original six track master and this was later upgraded to a 5.1 Dolby Digital version prepared for the first DVD. The 5.1 version may have had some slight tweaking in the process. This was reused for the DVD CE boxset and then the 5.1 on Blu-ray seems like a slight upgrade of the DVD track. (The first pressing from the UCE boxset had audio defects rampant on the Blu-ray. These were corrected for standalone pressings.) All 5.1s sound roughly the same as the LaserDisc 2.0 in terms of the mix, but the LaserDisc PCM mastering seems like the only one that is direct without any major processing.

7 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Small role · Directors: Douglas Hickox & Eugène Lourié

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Curtis Bernhardt

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Laurence Olivier

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK ITV Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

UK ITV Blu-ray > Australia Imprint Blu-ray which looks artificially sharpened see caps

Small role · Director: David Lean

Best English-Friendly:

UK ITV Blu-ray

Best Video:

UK very old transfer

Small role · Director: Roman Polanski

Small role · Director: Raoul Walsh

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from original technicolor negatives

Small role · Director: Roy Ward Baker

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:

All releases uses the old 2012 ITV 2K restoration, but from caps Criterion Blu-ray > UK ITV

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