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James Bell

James Bell

14 films on Best Blurays2 in 4K9 in HD2 in SD1 with no official release

Supporting role · Director: Tim Whelan

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Supporting role · Director: Jacques Tourneur

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Supporting role · Director: Jacques Tourneur

Supporting role · Director: Stuart Walker

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray subtitles are very bad and missing a lot of sentences

Supporting role · Director: Nicholas Ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Michael Curtiz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Supporting role · Director: Charles Brabin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Supporting role · Director: Delbert Mann

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 2022 4K restoration Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 2022 4K restoration Blu-ray although it's still using the incorrect 1.37:1 aspect ratio, see Robert Furmanek's from 3D Film Archive's comment
Otherwise, the new restoration is better in PQ than older releases: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=17660&d2=15881&s1=198260&s2=168249&i=0&l=0 

Supporting role · Director: André de Toth

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

Supporting role · Director: Mark Sandrich

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray, 80th Anniversary Edition

Supporting role · Director: Anthony Mann

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Shout Factory Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Shout's BD has both cuts of the film in addition to the 3.0 stereo and  2.0 mono mixes making it the first time the full theatrical cut is available with the 3.0 mix. The new commentary is good. The 3.0 stereo sounds wonderful and the mono sounds solid.
That's where the positives end. This is the same terrible Universal DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc with a terrible encode making both versions share the disc separately taking up more space. This master was already poor for DVD and is nearly unwatchable here on the Shout disc. It looks virtually identical to the upscaled DVD most of the time with only a bit less noise due to it being 1080p. This is one of the most appalling cases of "DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc" you can possibly find. Absolutely shameful video presentation. This should have never been released this way. Sadly it's still ever so slightly better than the DVD and the only way you get the proper theatrical cut with lossless 3.0 stereo. This is still the best source we have for the film.

Small role · Director: Anthony Mann

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow Video Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Arrow's deluxe presentation is a fantastic package with great supplements, art and printed materials. Sadly the master is a heavily processed Paramount affair. It has seemingly been severely grain managed and the mono audio is horribly thin when it shouldn't be. Stereo and 5.1 options are also given but they seem to be more of home video remixes. They do not have the fidelity issue of the compromised mono but also show marked differences as if they were remixed from stem sources. This seems to have suffered lesser degrees of the problems that plagued The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance's 4K master. This is the best version to date but one wishes Paramount could leave scans alone.

Small role · Director: Mark Sandrich

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

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