C. Aubrey Smith

33 films on Best Blurays1 in 4K15 in HD13 in SD4 with no official release

C. Aubrey Smith (Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, CBE) was an English born stage and screen actor, prominent in Hollywood films starting from the beginning of the sound era.

Biography from TMDB

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List

1 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Supporting role · Director: Ernst Lubitsch

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

A new 4K restoration from a 35mm nitrate print from and a 35mm composite duplicate negative.

Spain Universal Blu-ray is from a very soft DVD-era transfer; caps

Audio Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray is a new transfer by UCLA, with a bit more high end detail

The earlier transfer used on the Spain Universal Blu-ray and MoC DVD is a bit boomy with boosted bass. The 1999 Criterion DVD uses an even earlier transfer with noticable artifacting and less detail.

Additional Info:

Spain Universal Blu-ray has older MoC extra "Kent Jones and Dan Sallitt on Trouble in Paradise" with MoC watermark, and no other extras

4.1

15 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)

Supporting role · Director: W.S. Van Dyke

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.2

The Gilded Lily (1935)

Supporting role · Director: Wesley Ruggles

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

3.3

Another Thin Man (1939)

Supporting role · Director: W.S. Van Dyke

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.6

The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Supporting role · Director: Josef von Sternberg

Best English-Friendly:

Indicator Blu-ray or Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Indicator

Video Notes:

Indicator similar to Criterion but more extras

3.9

Queen Christina (1934)

Supporting role · Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.8

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Supporting role · Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.9

Love Me Tonight (1932)

Supporting role · Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber US or Indicator UK Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Both 4k master but Kino Lorber has way more contrast (is it as intended?) also different AR http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film9/blu-ray_review_131/love_me_tonight_blu-ray.htm

3.8

Madame Curie (1943)

Supporting role · Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.4

China Seas (1935)

Supporting role · Director: Tay Garnett

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

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

And Then There Were None (1945)

Supporting role · Director: René Clair

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI US or Filmjuwelen Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

VCI US or Filmjuwelen Blu-ray are both MP2 encoded, most likely from the same master. Judging from the size and the caps from DVDBeaver or BR for VCI or caps-a-holic for Filmjuwelen, they are probably very similar.

3.5