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Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper

41 films on Best Blurays2 in 4K28 in HD
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Gary Cooper (May 7, 1901 - May 13, 1961) was an American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style and screen performances. His career spanned thirty-six years, from 1925 to 1961, and included leading roles in eighty-four feature films. He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through to the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. His screen persona appealed strongly to both men and women, and his range of performances included roles in most major movie genres. Cooper's ability to project his own personality onto the characters he played contributed to his natural and authentic appearance on screen. Throughout his career, he sustained a screen persona that represented the ideal American hero.

Biography from TMDB

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Leading role · Director: Frank Capra

Best English-Friendly & Video:

ClassicFlix Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

ClassicFlix Blu-ray is using the same source and is superior to Youtube 4K Streaming

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHxbyV-8V6Y see caps

Leading role · Director: Michael Curtiz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Leading role · Director: Anthony Mann

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Additional Info:

The film only exists in MGM letterbox masters and the HD version upgrades the DVD presentation. Sadly the film still needs a modern restoration and a better audio source. The master holds up very well today regardless and has a very natural appearance. The Eureka BD is far superior to the Kino Lorber in encode and extras making it easily the only version to consider.

Leading role · Director: Howard Hawks

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Leading role · Director: Richard Boleslawski

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Leading role · Director: Ernst Lubitsch

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 > Kino Lorber see DVDBeaver 

Indicator is using a different restoration from earlier Kino Lorber Blu-ray and it has much better contrast and slightly better grain resolution

Leading role · Director: Marion Gering

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Leading role · Director: Frank Borzage

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

BFI Blu-ray with minimal encoding improvement compared with Kino Lorber Blu-ray see DVDBeaver caps 

Additional Info:

BFI has alternative ending as extras that's not present on Kino Lorber

Leading role · Director: Frank Borzage

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

While Indicator Blu-ray used a newer 4K restoration from 2022 instead of the older 2K restoration, Kino Lorber has the original aspect ratio, and the Indicator Blu-ray looks very soft in comparison see comparison

Leading role · Director: George Marshall

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Leading role · Director: Frank Lloyd

Best English-Friendly:

Flicker Alley Blu-ray

Best Video:

Flicker Alley Blu-ray, 4K scan of original negative

Leading role · Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion HD resto

Supporting role · Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Germany Koch Media DVD has exclusive extras

Supporting role · Director: William A. Wellman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

MoC Blu-ray slightly better than Paramount see DVDBeaver

Small role · Director: Clarence G. Badger

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

Upcoming Release:

Artcraft is working on the Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Hugh Munro Neely

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Flicker Alley Children of Divorce Blu-ray extras

Video Notes:

Available in Flicker Alley Children of Divorce Blu-ray extra, although since it was a TV movie, its source is still likely SD

Small role · Director: Clarence Brown

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray, 2K restoration

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

Small role · Director: William Beaudine

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Small role · Director: Fred Niblo

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros DVD

Video Notes:

While it is included in Warner Bros 50th Anniversary Blu-ray it's still the same DVD version

Additional Info:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray doesn't include this as an extra any more

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