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Eugene Jackson

Eugene Jackson

10 films on Best Blurays5 in 4K5 in HD

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Eugene Jackson gained fame as Farina's older brother, Pineapple, in six of Hal Roach's "Our Gang" serials - "The Mysterious Mystery", "The Big Town", "Circus Fever", "Dog Days", "The Love Bug" and "Shootin Injuns". Besides films he sang and danced on the vaudeville circuit - billed as "Hollywood's most famous colored kid star". Most of his film roles were bit parts, most uncredited. He did appear as Diahann Carroll's Uncle Lou on TV's "Julia" and Redd Foxx's friend on "Sanford and Son". In later years he taught dance at studios he started in Compton and Pasadena. He trained several performers in the 1959 film Porgy and Bess. His work was featured in a dance retrospective for the 1993 Los Angeles Festival.

Biography from TMDB

Small role · Director: Wesley Ruggles

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Raoul Walsh

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

MoC Blu-ray > Cohen Blu-ray, same restoration but better encoding see DVDBeaver caps

Small role · Director: Jack Starrett

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Paul Schrader

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Small role · Director: Billy Wilder

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Audio Notes:

(transfer of the 1989 MGM LaserDisc, without problems plaguing Kino Lorber's release)

Additional Info:

Arrow UHD is an update of the original 4K scan done for their BD. It is also visually far superior to the Kino version and adds Dolby Vision HDR. The Arrow UHD uses a new LD mono capture and has none of the issues or processing found in the Kino UHD which also used an LD mono capture and somehow mucked it up. Short of a brand new scan, the Arrow UHD is as good as it possibly can be.

Small role · Director: Hugh A. Robertson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.

Best Audio:

1984 MGM Hi-Fi VHS

Small role · Director: Don Siegel

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Disappointing
Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray's source is provided by Paramount has had DNR applied which affects the inherently soft looking film pretty strongly for at least a third of the running time

Small role · Director: Alan J. Pakula

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · hollywood-elsewhere.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray (caps; grade on the BD was controversial)

Best Audio:

2006 WB DVD

Audio Notes:

Later Warner Bros Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray are minor downgrades

Small role · Director: David Butler

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

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