Robert Greig

36 films on Best Blurays2 in 4K20 in HD10 in SD4 with no official release

Robert Greig photo

Robert Greig (December 27, 1879 – June 27, 1958) was an Australian-American actor who appeared in more than 100 films between 1930 and 1949, usually as the dutiful butler.

Biography from TMDB

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2 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

You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Small role · Director: Frank Capra

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Frank Capra Boxset 4K Blu-ray

3.9

20 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

The Devil-Doll (1936)

Supporting role · Director: Tod Browning

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.4

Tonight or Never (1931)

Supporting role · Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Best English-Friendly & Video:

3.3

Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Supporting role · Director: Preston Sturges

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Arrow Blu-ray slightly better than Criterion Blu-ray, not sure about France Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

(Arrow Blu-ray better than Criterion)

4.0

Stowaway (1936)

Supporting role · Director: William A. Seiter

Video format: HD Streaming

Best Video:

3.3

The Lady Eve (1941)

Supporting role · Director: Preston Sturges

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion, 4k transfer

Best Audio:

Amazon WEB-DL

4.0

Love Me Tonight (1932)

Small 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

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

Small role · Director: Dorothy Arzner

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray, 4k transfer

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

3.6

Animal Crackers (1930)

Small role · Director: Victor Heerman

Best English-Friendly:

US Universal or UK Arrow Blu-ray

Best Video:

US Universal, UK Arrow, or France ESC Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparison available

3.6

Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

Small role · Director: Preston Sturges

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Stingaree (1934)

Small role · Director: William A. Wellman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

3.2

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Small role · Director: Albert Lewin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.6

The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Small role · Director: Preston Sturges

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k transfer

Best Audio:

3.8

Show all 20 in HD

10 in SD

DVD, SD streaming, LaserDisc or VHS

Beauty and the Boss (1932)

Supporting role · Director: Roy Del Ruth

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Men Must Fight (1933)

Supporting role · Director: Edgar Selwyn

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Peg o' My Heart (1933)

Supporting role · Director: Robert Z. Leonard

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

3.2

Girl Trouble (1942)

Supporting role · Director: Harold D. Schuster

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

Small role · Director: Richard Boleslawski

Video format: DVD

Best Video:

R1 Sony DVD (Icons of Screwball Comedy Vol 2)

3.5

Upperworld (1934)

Small role · Director: Roy Del Ruth

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

3.3

Female (1933)

Small role · Director: Michael Curtiz

Best English-Friendly:

Best Video:

3.2

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

Small role · Director: Preston Sturges

Video format: SD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Video Notes:

The SD Streaming is provided by Universal while the origin and quality of Mill Creek and various other DVD are unknown

Midnight Mary (1933)

Small role · Director: William A. Wellman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 3 DVD

3.5

Meet the Baron (1933)

Small role · Director: Walter Lang

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

4 with no official release

Unofficial sources only, no home media, or lost

It's Great to Be Alive (1933)

Supporting role · Director: Alfred L. Werker

Video format: No Home Media

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

Best Video:

No home media release but 35mm print is available see MoMA

Born to Love (1931)

Small role · Director: Paul L. Stein

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Broadway to Hollywood (1933)

Small role · Directors: Willard Mack & Jules White

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Paramount on Parade (1930)

Small role · Directors: A. Edward Sutherland & Otto Brower & Dorothy Arzner & Edmund Goulding & Rowland V. Lee & Frank Tuttle & Ernst Lubitsch & Edwin H. Knopf & Lothar Mendes & Victor Heerman & Victor Schertzinger

Video format: No Home Media

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

Best Video:

UCLA has a 102 minute version restoration see wikipedia

3.1

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