Irving Pichel

23 films on Best Blurays14 in HD3 in SD6 with no official release

Irving Pichel (June 24, 1891 – July 13, 1954) was an American actor and film director. He married Violette Wilson, daughter of Jackson Stitt Wilson, a Methodist minister and Socialist mayor of Berkeley, California. Her sister was actress Viola Barry. The Pichels had three sons, Pichel Wilson, Julian Irving, and Marlowe Agnew. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irving Pichel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Blu-ray or HD streaming

The Cheat (1931)

Leading role · Director: George Abbott

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

3.0

An American Tragedy (1931)

Supporting role · Director: Josef von Sternberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Indicator Blu-ray

3.2

The Story of Temple Drake (1933)

Supporting role · Director: Stephen Roberts

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

3.6

Cleopatra (1934)

Supporting role · Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Universal Blu-ray better, MoC over-sharpened https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=19993011&postcount=53

3.4

High, Wide and Handsome (1937)

Small role · Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Jezebel (1938)

Small role · Director: William Wyler

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.5

Topper Takes a Trip (1938)

Small role · Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray

3.2

Night Flight (1933)

Small role · Director: Clarence Brown

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

3.1

I'm No Angel (1933)

Small role · Director: Wesley Ruggles

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Indicator Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Indicator Blu-ray minimally better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film10/blu-ray_review_158/mae_west_in_hollywood_1932-1943_blu-ray.htm

3.4

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

Small role · Director: John Ford

Best English-Friendly:

WB Blu-ray

Best Video:

Warner Archive

3.6

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Small role · Director: John Ford

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Sources: blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Fox Blu-ray mono mix

Audio Notes:

As noted at Blah-Ray, the mono mix on the Fox Blu-ray, although not perfect, sounds better than the 5.1 remix and at least as good as earlier LaserDiscs, which suffer from being murky.