Frank Conroy

23 films on Best Blurays12 in HD6 in SD5 with no official release

Frank Parish Conroy (14 October 1890 – 24 February 1964) was a British film and stage actor who appeared in many films, notably Grand Hotel (1932), The Little Minister (1934) and The Ox-Bow Incident (1943). He appeared on the Broadway stage and won a Tony Award for his performance in Graham Greene's The Potting Shed (1957).

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

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The Naked City (1948)

Supporting role · Director: Jules Dassin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray is a newer 4K restoration, and much better than older Arrow Blu-ray and the Arrow reissue is slightly more cut-off than the Criterion Blu-ray too

Possessed (1931)

Supporting role · Director: Clarence Brown

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

3.5

Bad Company (1931)

Supporting role · Director: Tay Garnett

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Midnight Mary (1933)

Supporting role · Director: William A. Wellman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 3 DVD

3.5

Manhattan Parade (1931)

Supporting role · Director: Lloyd Bacon

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)

Supporting role · Directors: George Cukor & Cyril Gardner

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

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

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Video Notes:

UCLA has a 35mm print, and copyright is held by Universal, according to Wikipedia

3.2

The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)

Supporting role · Director: William K. Howard

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

Disorderly Conduct (1932)

Supporting role · Director: John W. Considine Jr.

Video format: No Home Media

Sources: cinema.ucla.edu (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

No home media, but UCLA and Fox has a 35mm restoration

Ann Carver's Profession (1933)

Supporting role · Director: Edward Buzzell

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

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

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Video Notes:

There is 35mm print available

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Supporting role · Director: Robert Wise

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)

Supporting role · Director: H. Bruce Humberstone

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox DVD

Lady of Burlesque (1943)

Supporting role · Director: William A. Wellman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Film Masters Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Film Masters Blu-ray not a good encoding, but at least it's from a 4K scan of Original Camera Negative see caps

3.1

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Supporting role · Director: William A. Wellman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray suffers from the Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps

Best Audio:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray from blah-ray:

Audio Notes:

Both the Plaion and Arrow audio tracks sound like they received little/any high- or low- frequency attenuation, but the audio on the new Kino Lorber restoration is much more detailed. It's likely that it was transferred from different (superior) analogue elements. It sounds excellent.