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Richard Crenna

Richard Crenna

8 films on Best Blurays7 in 4K1 in HD

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Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, the first three Rambo movies, Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid. Crenna played "Walter Denton" in the CBS radio and CBS-TV network series Our Miss Brooks, and "Luke McCoy" in ABC's TV comedy series, The Real McCoys, (1957–63), which moved to CBS-TV in September 1962. Crenna was in one of the few TV political dramatic series Slattery's People on CBS. Crenna played "Colonel Trautman" in the first three Rambo movies. He also played "Frank Skimmerhorn" in the critically acclaimed mini-series Centennial.

Biography from TMDB

Leading role · Director: Peter MacDonald

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Upcoming Release:

A new Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray with DV upcoming including with the rest of the films.

Video Notes:

Eagle Pictures Italy > StudioCanal UK, better compression than StudioCanal but no forced subs on non-English dialogue

Leading role · Director: George P. Cosmatos

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Upcoming Release:

A new Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray with DV upcoming including with the rest of the films.

Video Notes:

Eagle Pictures Italy > StudioCanal UK, better compression than StudioCanal

Leading role · Director: George P. Cosmatos

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Disappointing
Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray's HDR10 encode and audio tracks are poor, film looks fine in Dolby Vision

Leading role · Director: Ted Kotcheff

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray (2026 Rambo set)

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

Video Notes:

Caps #1 (with FEL), caps #2

Additional Info:

The compression is underwhelming on all discs, but despite trading blows in various frames, Lionsgate's re-released 4K disc wins.

The Lionsgate 4K re-release includes original matrixed Dolby Stereo mix, transferred from a LaserDisc, with missing cues at side changeover points corrected, and consistent volume throughout, as well as two remixed variants in 5.1 and 7.1 Atmos. The 5.1 is incorrectly labeled as original on the menu.

Leading role · Director: Lawrence Kasdan

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Original mono: Warner Bros LaserDisc
Stereo & 5.1 remixes: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Original mono mix was never released after VHS/LD. Warner's DVD and Blu-ray had a 3.0 remix in a 5.1 container. Criterion has new stereo and 5.1 remixes. Stereo is director's current preference.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23879243&postcount=51

Leading role · Director: Terence Young

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: William Friedkin

Small role · Director: Sylvester Stallone

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

A new Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray with DV upcoming including with the rest of the films.

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