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Supporting role · Director: Billy Wilder
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Kino Lorber Blu-ray is a newer 4K restoration, and better than the older restoration used by UK MoC , France Elephant Films, or Germany Explosive Media Blu-ray see caps
Small role · Director: John M. Stahl
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Criterion Blu-ray has minimally better encoding than Twilight Time Blu-ray see caps
Small role · Director: Melville Shavelson
Kino Lorber Blu-ray 6K master from Paramount
Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Small role · Director: George Sidney
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Small role · Director: Charles Walters
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray is a remaster from the original VistaVision camera negaitve, FiM encode
The original mono sounds good. The Atmos remix is a mixed bag, music performances are sourced from magnetic stereo recordings and sound great, but mono dialogue/effectshas undergone destructive noise reduction and unnecessary EQ, so the jumps in fidelity are incredibly jarring.
Small role · Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray has slightly tighter grain control than US Shout! Factory Anne Bancroft Collection Blu-ray see caps on BR
Small role · Director: Ronald Neame
Kino Lorber Blu-ray, new 4K master
Small role · Director: Anthony Mann
Shout Factory Blu-ray
Shout's BD has both cuts of the film in addition to the 3.0 stereo and 2.0 mono mixes making it the first time the full theatrical cut is available with the 3.0 mix. The new commentary is good. The 3.0 stereo sounds wonderful and the mono sounds solid.
That's where the positives end. This is the same terrible Universal DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc with a terrible encode making both versions share the disc separately taking up more space. This master was already poor for DVD and is nearly unwatchable here on the Shout disc. It looks virtually identical to the upscaled DVD most of the time with only a bit less noise due to it being 1080p. This is one of the most appalling cases of "DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc" you can possibly find. Absolutely shameful video presentation. This should have never been released this way. Sadly it's still ever so slightly better than the DVD and the only way you get the proper theatrical cut with lossless 3.0 stereo. This is still the best source we have for the film.
Small role · Director: Stanley Kramer
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UK BFI Blu-ray is very similar to Germany Capelight Blu-ray but Capelight is slightly more sharpened see caps
Both Kino Lorber and Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray suffer from Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps
Small role · Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Warner Archive Blu-ray, 4k scan
Small role · Director: Leo McCarey
Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock
WB 4K
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An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.
Small role · Director: Stanley Kramer
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MoC Blu-ray > Kino Lorber > Twilight Time. Kino Lorber has slightly worse encoding than MoC, see caps, and Twilight Time is over-exposed
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