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Melville Cooper

Melville Cooper

16 films on Best Blurays12 in HD3 in SD1 with no official release

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George Melville Cooper (15 October 1896 – 13 March 1973), best known as Melville Cooper, was a British stage, film and television actor. Among his roles are the cowardly Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, and Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, with Greer Garson. His stage debut came in Stratford-Upon-Avon at the age of eighteen. In 1934, he moved to the United States, where he was usually cast as ineffectual snobs or crooks. As his film career wound down in the 1950s, he turned to television and back to the stage. He was an early panelist on the American game show I've Got A Secret. Cooper died in 1973 and was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melville Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

12 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Supporting role · Director: Preston Sturges

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion, 4k transfer

Best Audio:

Amazon WEB-DL

Supporting role · Director: Fritz Lang

Best English-Friendly:

WB Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Norman Taurog

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

Supporting role · Director: Vincente Minnelli

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: David Miller

Best English-Friendly:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Olive Films Blu-ray or France Rimini Blu-ray but no comparison, likely from the same source

Supporting role · Directors: William Keighley & Michael Curtiz

Best English-Friendly:

WB Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

2008 WB Blu-ray (from a 2003 transfer)

Best Audio:

1988 Criterion LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

(Still not great)

Supporting role · Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Best English-Friendly & Video:

France Carlotta Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

France Carlotta better encode than Criterion

Best Audio:

2004 Prism Leisure DVD

Small role · Director: Robert Z. Leonard

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: René Clair

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber or BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber, BFI, Elephant Films (no EN subs)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber, BFI, Elephant Films (no EN subs) are likely all from the same 1080p transfer

Small role · Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

Small role · Director: Michael Anderson

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

3 in SD

DVD, SD streaming, LaserDisc or VHS

Supporting role · Director: Wesley Ruggles

Video format: DVD

Best Video:

R1 Sony DVD (Icons of Screwball Comedy Vol 1)

Supporting role · Director: Wesley Ruggles

Video format: DVD

Best Video:

R1 Sony MOD DVD-R

Supporting role · Director: Michael Curtiz

Video format: DVD

Best Video:

R1 WB Archives MOD DVD-R

1 with no official release

Unofficial sources only, no home media, or lost

Supporting role · Director: Anatole Litvak

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Sources: ilcinemaritrovato.it (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Additional Info:

Ritrovato 2024 has a 35mm showing, could be a new restoration

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