Man's Castle (1933)
Drama, Romance • 1h 15m
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hohl, Dickie Moore, Harry Akst, Harvey Clark, Helen Jerome Eddy, R. Henry Grey, Leonard Kibrick, Carl M. Leviness, Kendall McComas, Etta McDaniel, Tony Merlo, Harold Miller, Edmund Mortimer, Henry Roquemore, Hector V. Sarno, Charles Sullivan, Harry Watson
Best English-friendly release · updated 1 year ago
Overview
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Warner Archive Blu-ray, 4k scan
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 Dieterle
Best format: DVD
Warner Archive Blu-ray in Oct
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Best format: HD Streaming
Warner Archive Blu-ray in October
Director: Raoul Walsh
Best format: Only Unofficial Sources
Sources: silver.afi.com (opens in a new tab)
Unofficial DVD
New 4K restoration
Director: Marion Gering
Best format: DVD
Director: John Ford
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: ibb.co (opens in a new tab)
Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ
Director: William A. Wellman
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Frank Borzage
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Undercrank Frank Borzage: 1922 Silents Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Undercrank Frank Borzage: 1922 Silents Blu-ray
Director: Frank Borzage
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
While Indicator Blu-ray used a newer 4K restoration from 2022 instead of the older 2K restoration, Kino Lorber has the original aspect ratio, and the Indicator Blu-ray looks very soft in comparison see comparison
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Frank Borzage
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Kino Lorber Blu-ray 4K scan from the 35mm B&W nitrate original negative and 35mm B&W composite fine grain
Director: Frank Borzage
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
No comparison available, but from track record, Indicator Blu-ray is likely better than Kino Lorber
Director: Frank Borzage
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
BFI Blu-ray with minimal encoding improvement compared with Kino Lorber Blu-ray see DVDBeaver caps
BFI has alternative ending as extras that's not present on Kino Lorber
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Amazon US Streaming is from the 2018 UCLA restoration. Olive Films Blu-ray is from an older scan and quite rough. caps
Olive Films Blu-ray is again rough, with distortion, crackle and other issues, but sounds much more natural. With some EQ the restored track can be significantly improved
Director: David Fincher
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
4K Blu-ray has exclusive “unrated” audio with a small change to one line under the request of David Fincher (removed the poor dub over of frickin’ in the line “Screw it, let’s gut the f**kin’ nerd.”).
Director: Martin Scorsese
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Sources: blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot seen on the previous Columbia Classics release and has better encoding
Original mono mix: 1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1991 Columbia LaserDisc
The 4K Blu-ray mono is only minimally worse (see blah-ray).
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: Michael Apted
Best format: HD Streaming
Director: James Wong
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: David Greene
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Richard Linklater
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Blu-ray uses the same transfer as Sony but the encoding is slightly worse than Sony and barely noticeable see caps
Germany StudioCanal Blu-ray in viewing looks very similar to both the Criterion and Sony caps, but no side by side comparison available
Germany StudioCanal Blu-ray is part of a 3-film box set like the Criterion
Director: Damien Chazelle
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
France Metropolitan 4K Blu-ray, glitch fixed from Sony
The Sony 4K Blu-ray has a glitch around the 40 min mark where a shot is repeated; no word from Sony about a replacement at the time of writing, i.e. 8/1/8/22
Directors: Frank Oz & Jim Henson
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
LaserDisc, Shout! Factory's 2.0 is a downmix of the 5.1
Director: Jim Henson
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Shout! Factory replacement 4K Blu-ray
Sources: lddb.com (opens in a new tab)
Shout! Factory replacement 4K Blu-ray, Shout! Factory doesn't have the low-pass filter that's on the Sony US 4K Blu-ray from 2021 with Dolby Vision (or the worse HDR10 only release from 2016). Shout! Factory retains more high-frequency grain and detail.
Embassy Home Entertainment JPN LaserDisc or 1999 Sony US DVD 2.0
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