George Bancroft

13 films on Best Blurays1 in 4K7 in HD5 with no official release

George Bancroft was an American screen actor of the 1920s and 1930s.

Biography from TMDB

By format

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Lady and Gent (1932)

Leading role · Director: Stephen Roberts

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Blood Money (1933)

Leading role · Director: Rowland Brown

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Sources: filmforum.org (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Video Notes:

Fox has 35mm archival print

3.4

The Docks of New York (1928)

Leading role · Director: Josef von Sternberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

3.8

Underworld (1927)

Leading role · Director: Josef von Sternberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

3.8

Ladies Love Brutes (1930)

Leading role · Director: Rowland V. Lee

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Thunderbolt (1929)

Leading role · Director: Josef von Sternberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Indicator Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Given that Indicator Blu-ray is encoded by FiM and Kino Lorber uses the same transfer judging from different screenshots, Indicator is most likely to be better encoded.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Leading role · Director: Frank Capra

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Frank Capra Boxset 4K Blu-ray

3.9

Wedding Present (1936)

Leading role · Director: Richard Wallace

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Cary Grant Collection Blu-ray

3.3

Stagecoach (1939)

Leading role · Director: John Ford

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Lobster Films Blu-ray is a newer master but with terrible encoding and brightness levels. May still be better

4.0

The Runaway (1926)

Supporting role · Director: William C. deMille

Video format: Lost Film

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

Additional Info:

Some small segments were found see clip 1 clip 2 and clip 3

Each Dawn I Die (1939)

Supporting role · Director: William Keighley

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.5

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Supporting role · Director: Michael Curtiz

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

WB Blu-ray

Paramount on Parade (1930)

Supporting role · Directors: A. Edward Sutherland & Otto Brower & Dorothy Arzner & Edmund Goulding & Rowland V. Lee & Frank Tuttle & Ernst Lubitsch & Edwin H. Knopf & Lothar Mendes & Victor Heerman & Victor Schertzinger

Video format: No Home Media

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

Best Video:

UCLA has a 102 minute version restoration see wikipedia

3.1

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