Biography from TMDB
Supporting role · Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Small role · Director: Budd Boetticher
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Indicator Blu-ray has better presented extras plus additional unique extras.
Small role · Director: Don Siegel
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or 2018 Olive Films/BFI or 2012 Olive Films/Italy Sinister Films Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
All three are not ideal.
All three are not ideal.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has frozen grain, sharpening, lots of debris, and handles lesser materials. The supposed non-Superscope version is false advertising. It merely reveals more picture information.
1992 Republic Pictures LaserDisc PCM Mono
Criterion LaserDisc has exclusive commentary. Olive Films Signature Blu-ray and BFI Blu-ray each have exclusive extras. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has exclusive commentary.
Small role · Director: Gordon Douglas
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · catalog.afi.com (opens in a new tab) · archive.org (opens in a new tab) · +1 more
SF is in 1.66 aspect ratio. Whether this is the intended ratio or a compromise isn't clear.
American Film Institute's catalog and Variety's contemporary review list it as 1.66, but other sources disagree.
Exhibitor's contemporary review lists it as 1.85, IMDB and an internal pre-production note from Warner Bros. list it as 1.75.
Small role · Director: William Cameron Menzies
UK BFI 4K Blu-ray or Ignite 4K Blu-ray
Small role · Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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