Saboteur (1942)
Thriller, Drama • 1h 48m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Norman Lloyd, Alma Kruger, Vaughan Glaser, Dorothy Peterson, Ian Wolfe, Frances Carson, Murray Alper, Pedro de Cordoba, Billy Curtis, Marie Le Deaux, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Jeanne Romer, Laura Mason, Oliver Blake, Alfred Hitchcock, Pat Flaherty, Sam Harris, Frank McLure, Harold Miller, Cyril Ring, Hans Conried, Tony Randall, Will Wright, Charles Halton, Dick Gordon, Hardie Albright, Frank Baker, Edward Biby, William A. Boardway, Lulu Mae Bohrman, Al Bridge, Ralph Brooks, Paul E. Burns, Don Cadell, James Carlisle, Jack Cheatham, Kernan Cripps, Oliver Cross, Mary Curtis, Sayre Dearing, Harry Denny, Helen Dickson, Norma Drury, Ralph Dunn, John Eldredge, Paul Everton, James Flavin, Eddie Foster, Ben Frommer, Jack Gardner, Gene Garrick, Art Gilmore, Gus Glassmire, William Gould, Aleth Hansen, Margaret Hayes, Vinton Hayworth, Selmer Jackson, Milton Kibbee, Rex Lease, Will Lee, Ethelreda Leopold, Alexander Lockwood, Nancy Loring, Lou Lubin, Jimmie Lucas, Frank Marlowe, Kermit Maynard, Dick Midgley, Belle Mitchell, Margaret Moffatt, Field Norton, Gene O'Donnell, Paddy O'Flynn, George Offerman, Jr., Dorothy Parker, Emory Parnell, Ruth Peterson, Lee Phelps, Paul Phillips, Gerald Pierce, Alexander Pollard, Catherine Price, Louis Quince, Lynne Romer, William Ruhl, Paul Russell, Jeffrey Sayre, Charles Sherlock, Byron Shores, Harry Strang, Virgil Summers, Torin Thatcher, Jean Trent, Archie Twitchell, Dale Van Sickel, Claire Whitney, Matt Willis, Marjorie Wood, Barton Yarborough, Duke York
Universal 4K Blu-ray
Best English-friendly release · updated 1 year ago
UHD tiers
Overview
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
1985 MCA LaserDisc
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: John Carpenter
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Universal 4K Blu-ray. Maybe Turbine Blu-ray instead for better audio?
Sources: blog.sporv.com (opens in a new tab)
1997? Signature Collection LD
Good: 2017 Arrow and 2016 Shout! Factory Blu-ray have the original audio options.
the only track on Universal 4K, which is in DTS:X, has a mixing error of around 6dB too low on side channels, otherwise very similar to other 5.1 mixes.
Director: Norman Taurog
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Raoul Walsh
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Frank Tuttle
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: James Whale
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Universal Complete Legacy Collection 4K Blu-ray set on September 26 2026
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Director: James Whale
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Universal Complete Legacy Collection 4K Blu-ray set on September 26 2026
1993 CIC Video LaserDisc
Director: William A. Seiter
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Henry Koster
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
2D version: Universal 4K Blu-ray
3D version: Turbine Germany 3D Blu-ray
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More Thriller on Blu-ray
Director: James Cameron
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
2013 MGM Blu-ray, or 4K Blu-ray if you MUST have the mono mix, 1997 Image DVD/2001 MGM DVD for a purist version with original colors and the international mono mix
Sources: facebook.com (opens in a new tab) · vimeo.com (opens in a new tab)
2013 MGM Blu-ray for non AI transfer, 1997 Image DVD/2001 MGM DVD for a purist version with original colors and the international mono mix
1991 Image Entertainment LaserDisc for the US mono mix, 2001 MGM DVD for the International mono mix
Comparison between the US and International mixes: https://vimeo.com/246332731
The 4K Blu-Ray and the 2001 MGM DVD have exclusive extras.
Directors: Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
4K encode is low-pass filtered and noticeably so, which was unfortunately par for the course with Criterion 4Ks until sometime in 2024. Still better than the Criterion and Lionsgate Blu-Ray discs for the Dolby Vision grading alone.
Director: Josh Safdie
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Sources: testsbluray.com (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Entertainment in Video UK 4K Blu-ray or French Metropolitan 4K Blu-ray
The UK 4K Blu-ray and Canada 4K Blu-ray both do not have the low-pass that the US 4K Blu-ray has. The UK 4K Blu-ray has some general blockiness and chroma artifacting issues, but the Canada 4K Blu-ray has at least a handful of scenes where the encode completely falls apart and massive macroblocks are visible. The Canada 4K Blu-ray also does not have hardcoded forced subtitles for the newsreel scene like the US and UK 4K Blu-rays. The grade is the same between all three discs.
See tenia's review of the French 4K Blu-ray but no comparison available
The Atmos mix is the same between the US 4K Blu-ray and the UK 4K Blu-ray save for the amount of dynamic objects: the UK 4K Blu-ray has 15 to the USA's 11.
The UK 4K Blu-ray also has a DD-EX compatibility track and a lossless version of the commentary track that is in Dolby Digital on the US and Canada 4K Blu-rays.
UK 4K plays fine in motion https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24007274&postcount=181
Director: Brian De Palma
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has a better encode than the Kino Lorber and Capelight 4K Blu-rays. Capelight 4K Blu-ray looks low-passed in comparison to the Arrow but is slightly closer to the Arrow in PQ than the Kino Lorber.
Director: Bob Clark
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray in December
Director: David Lynch
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray in December
Criterion 4K Blu-ray or Germany Plaion 4K Blu-ray - subtle difference in encoding to the Criterion in encoding, trading blows in different shots, with Plaion taking a slight edge with less highlight blocking
1993 MGM LaserDisc/2000 Region 1 MGM DVD
Criterion's 2.0 sounds muffled due to noise reduction and EQ.
Plaion's 2.0 lacks bass and has a very bright EQ, more resembling the 5.1 remix. Plaion’s 2.0 doesn't have any filtering unlike the Criterion, see https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23831289&postcount=110
Director: John Woo
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray > US Shout! Factory, better encoding by Engine House and redone opening credits, errors present in Shout! Factory fixed
Arrow 4K Blu-ray, mono is from an alternate higher fidelity source than Shout! Factory.
Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun & Parkpoom Wongpoom
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Australia Umbrella 4K Blu-ray encoded by FiM
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
UK Shameless 4K Blu-ray or US Arrow 4K Blu-ray
Both the US Arrow 4K Blu-ray and UK Shameless 4K Blu-ray are better than the horrible grade of the France Le Chat Qui Fume which has blacks looking greenish and milky with some yellow push. However, comparing these two, there's significant tradeoffs; Arrow has less black crush and some shots seems to be better graded but it's worse in some shots with a slight magenta grade; the UK Shameless 4K Blu-ray has a better color grading.
UK Shameless 4K Blu-ray and US Arrow 4K Blu-ray have exclusive extras
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