Walter Pidgeon

25 films on Best Blurays2 in 4K14 in HD7 in SD2 with no official release

Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian actor who lived most of his adult life in the United States. He starred in many motion pictures, including Mrs. Miniver, The Bad and the Beautiful, Forbidden Planet, Advise and Consent and Funny Girl.

Biography from TMDB

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How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Leading role · Director: John Ford

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Blu-ray

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

Best Audio:

Fox Blu-ray mono mix

Audio Notes:

As noted at Blah-Ray, the mono mix on the Fox Blu-ray, although not perfect, sounds better than the 5.1 remix and at least as good as earlier LaserDiscs, which suffer from being murky.

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Leading role · Director: Fred M. Wilcox

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Audio:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

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

Audio Notes:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray used what was also originally screened theatrically: The Perspecta Stereo 3.0 and a mono option. The Perspecta track sounds best with better dynamic range and was set as default with the mono as optional. The previous releases stereo were downmixes of a now lost original 4-track, and it sounds very thin as a result. See comparison

Best Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray see comparison video

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Leading role · Director: William Wyler

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB Blu-ray

3.7

Bride of the Regiment (1930)

Leading role · Director: John Francis Dillon

Video format: Lost Film

Sources: en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Lost, from Wiki:

The only known surviving fragment is a 20 second long clip found in 2023. The large amount of Pre-Code content, which raised alarm even before the Code began to be enforced (in 1934) may have contributed to the film's disappearance as this would have made the film unacceptable for Associated Artists Productions in 1958 when a number of early Technicolor features were transferred to black and white film. The soundtrack, which was recorded on Vitaphone disks, survives intact.