Jack Curtis
16 films on Best Blurays4 in 4K7 in HD3 in SD2 with no official release
4 in 4K
UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming
Small role · Director: James Whale
Universal Complete Legacy Collection 4K Blu-ray set on September 26 2026
1993 CIC Video LaserDisc
Small role · Director: Anthony Mann
Criterion 4K Blu-ray, Universal 2008 DVD
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2008 Universal DVD mono
The mono on the Criterion is severely filtered resulting in it sounding incredibly muffled. It is nearly as filtered as the 2003 original Universal DVD which had extreme filtering and sounds horribly thin. The 2008 DVD remaster and original Laserdisc analog mastering are mostly left alone. The original LD master is from a worn element but otherwise sounds very natural. The 2008 DVD is the highest quality version we have without the heavy filtering and the defects of the LD master. It isn't perfect but easily the best of the main four sources by a dramatic margin.
The existing 4K SDR restoration looks excellent, but the Criterion extras are limited and disappointing. The classic Stewart interview commentary from the LD is ported over but given a new mastering. Compared to past releases it has been very slightly noise reduced.
Small role · Director: Frank Capra
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
1986 Columbia VHS
Small role · Director: Orson Welles
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
WB Europe 4K Blu-ray
WB Europe 4K Blu-ray slightly better encoding than Criterion (caveat: missing Criterion extras)
7 in HD
Blu-ray or HD streaming
Small role · Director: John Ford
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Lobster Films Blu-ray is a newer master but with terrible encoding and brightness levels. May still be better
3 in SD
DVD, SD streaming, LaserDisc or VHS
2 with no official release
Unofficial sources only, no home media, or lost
Supporting role · Director: Roy Del Ruth
Sources: en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)
From Wiki:
The sound discs survive, but the visuals are lost. The George Eastman Museum 2015 book The Dawn of Technicolor, 1915-1935 mistakenly reported that the Library of Congress possesses a black and white print, but that is not true. No color print is known to exist as of 2024.
Small role · Director: Michael Curtiz
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Unofficial DVD
The film survives as a single nitrate Technicolor print, copied by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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