Victor McLaglen

17 films on Best Blurays10 in HD2 in SD5 with no official release

Victor McLaglen was a British-American film actor. He was known as a character actor, particularly in Westerns, and made seven films with John Ford and John Wayne. McLaglen won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in The Informer.

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Women of All Nations (1931)

Leading role · Director: Raoul Walsh

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

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

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD, 35mm restoration in UCLA

Wharf Angel (1934)

Leading role · Directors: William Cameron Menzies & George Somnes

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

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

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Additional Info:

Has 35mm prints available

The Lost Patrol (1934)

Leading role · Director: John Ford

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Sources: ibb.co (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Warner Archive Blu-ray is 4K restoration from nitrate projection elements

Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ

3.4

A Devil with Women (1930)

Leading role · Director: Irving Cummings

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Sources: letterboxd.com (opens in a new tab) · nitrateville.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Very rare film, and last spotted was in TCM according to this comment. Hopefully the restoration is done if it's played on TCM, especially considering the print was in danger of decomposition in 1977 according to earlytalkiebuffRob

The Informer (1935)

Leading role · Director: John Ford

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Apple TV HD Streaming

3.7

Murder at the Vanities (1934)

Leading role · Director: Mitchell Leisen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

3.1

Dishonored (1931)

Leading role · Director: Josef von Sternberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Indicator Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Indicator Blu-ray has better encoding than Criterion Blu-ray, both 4K restoration, see DVDBeaver caps

No caps on France Elephant Films Blu-ray

3.8

Gunga Din (1939)

Leading role · Director: George Stevens

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros DVD

Sources: lddb.com (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

1995 Image Entertainment LaserDisc has exclusive extras not ported over https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/06310/ID2496TU/Gunga-Din:-Collectors-Edition

3.4

What Price Glory (1926)

Leading role · Director: Raoul Walsh

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Grapevine OOP Blu-ray

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

Upcoming Release:

New restoration by MoMA and Film Foundation https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/11558 no release yet

Forever and a Day (1943)

Leading role · Directors: Cedric Hardwicke & Herbert Wilcox & Robert Stevenson & Edmund Goulding & Victor Saville & Frank Lloyd & René Clair

Best English-Friendly & Video:

DVD

Video Notes:

Also available on Amazon in SD Streaming with Cohen

3.4

Under Two Flags (1936)

Leading role · Director: Frank Lloyd

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Additional Info:

UCLA has restoration print

The Quiet Man (1952)

Leading role · Director: John Ford

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2023 Paramount Blu-ray

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

Best Audio:

2023 Paramount Blu-ray or Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Additional Info:

USA Paramount has the best video transfer with the least amount of artifacts: https://slow.pics/c/sjZ3mqF6

Olive Films Blu-ray and Eureka MoC Blu-ray are sourced from the same restoration and are both very good.

Apart from some mild attenuation, the audio is the same on all releases of the newest restoration and is relatively untampered with: https://slow.pics/c/bWF9EGuM