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12 films on Best Blurays7 in HD3 in SD2 with no official release

By format

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7 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

The Iron Mask (1929)

Supporting role · Director: Allan Dwan

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen Blu-ray

Video Notes:

"a full frame 35 mm fine grain positive was scanned at 4K at an historically appropriate 21 frames per second. Following this, more than 160 hours of digital clean up was completed at 2K"

3.5

The Three Musketeers (1921)

Small role · Director: Fred Niblo

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Film Preservation Society Blu-ray

Sources: hometheaterforum.com (opens in a new tab) · YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Film Preservation Society Blu-ray is a newer restoration than the previous Cohen one. From various review like Robert Harris and Damn Fool Crusade this new restoration is really good.

3.4

Mantrap (1926)

Small role · Director: Victor Fleming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Grapevine US Blu-ray

3.4

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Small role · Director: Michael Curtiz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.4

Father's Little Dividend (1951)

Small role · Director: Vincente Minnelli

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.2

The More the Merrier (1943)

Small role · Director: George Stevens

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

3.8

You Only Live Once (1937)

Small role · Director: Fritz Lang

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Imprint Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Imprint Blu-ray not only has the best encoding, but also has the "correct" aspect ratio compared to ClassicFlix which is horizontally stretched or Eagle Pictures which is squished see DVDBeaver caps

3.8