Walter Brennan

35 films on Best Blurays3 in 4K20 in HD6 in SD6 with no official release

Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938), and The Westerner (1940), making him one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards. Brennan was also nominated for his performance in Sergeant York (1941). Other noteworthy performances were in To Have and Have Not (1944), My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), and Rio Bravo (1959). Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Brennan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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20 of 35 films match

By format

List

To Have and Have Not (1944)

Leading role · Director: Howard Hawks

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB Blu-ray

3.9

Sergeant York (1941)

Leading role · Director: Howard Hawks

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.6

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Leading role · Director: John Sturges

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.9

Northwest Passage (1940)

Leading role · Director: King Vidor

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.4

Three Godfathers (1936)

Leading role · Director: Richard Boleslawski

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.5

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)

Leading role · Director: F. Hugh Herbert

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

The Far Country (1954)

Supporting role · Director: Anthony Mann

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow Video Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

The Arrow Video Blu-ray is the best iteration so far coming from a new restoration complete with great supplements and package. The original limited edition version included a second disc with the alternate 2.0:1 framed version. The primary disc is 1.85:1. Older releases pre-2008 were all in Academy ratio. 1.85 is the best compromise ratio for the visuals. As good as this release is, the master is showing its age and sadly has a number of frozen grain artifacts.

Red River (1948)

Supporting role · Director: Howard Hawks

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion/Capelight

Video Notes:

Criterion/Capelight. MoC uses older master

Best Audio:

Theatrical Cut: France Wild Side Blu-ray

Pre-release Cut: ?

4.0

Blood on the Moon (1948)

Supporting role · Director: Robert Wise

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.5

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

Supporting role · Director: Sam Wood

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

3.6

Meet John Doe (1941)

Supporting 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

3.7

My Darling Clementine (1946)

Supporting role · Director: John Ford

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Arrow Blu-ray better encode than Criterion Blu-ray

4.1

Flight (1929)

Supporting role · Director: Frank Capra

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Frank Capra Boxset Blu-ray

Fury (1936)

Supporting role · Director: Fritz Lang

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1993 MGM LaserDisc

4.0

Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)

Supporting role · Directors: W.C. Fields & Clyde Bruckman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

3.5

Law and Order (1932)

Supporting role · Director: Edward L. Cahn

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray 4K restoration

These Three (1936)

Small role · Director: William Wyler

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

3.5

The Last Performance (1929)

Small role · Director: Pál Fejős

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Lonesome Blu-ray extra

3.4

King of Jazz (1930)

Small role · Director: John Murray Anderson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Universal. No comparison with Elephant Films France Blu-ray available

3.4

How the West Was Won (1962)

Small role · Directors: Henry Hathaway & John Ford & George Marshall

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros Blu-ray 2-Disc version (Digibook) for the Smilebox presentation

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

See what smilebox looks like for its smilebox trailer
See Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader's review especially why a smilebox version is preferred, for example how a letterboxd version is actually distorted
Even if you do not prefer the smilebox version, the letterboxd version is still present on disc 1

3.5

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