She Couldn't Take It (1935)
Comedy • 1h 17m
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: George Raft, Joan Bennett, Walter Connolly, Billie Burke, Lloyd Nolan, Wallace Ford, James Blakeley, Alan Mowbray, William Tannen, Donald Meek, Stanley Andrews, Frank Austin, Irving Bacon, C.A. Beckman, Wyrley Birch, Stark Bishop, Walter Brennan, James P. Burtis, Joc Clive, Heinie Conklin, Frank Conroy, Tom Costello, Kernan Cripps, Jack Daley, Peppino Dallalic, Carrie Daumery, Edgar Dearing, John Webb Dillion, Nadine Dore, Jack Duffy, Frank Fanning, Al Ferguson, Emily Fitzroy, Bess Flowers, Gladys Gale, Jack Gardner, Grace Goodall, Mack Gray, Harrison Greene, Eddie Gribbon, Thurston Hall, Jack Holmes, Maynard Holmes, Arthur Stuart Hull, Olaf Hytten, John Ince, Thomas E. Jackson, Tom Kennedy, James B. 'Pop' Kenton, Donald Kerr, Edith Kingdon, Mike Lally, Frank LaRue, W.E. Lawrence, Ivan Lebedeff, Maxine Lewis, Lois Lindsay, George Lloyd, Stanley Mack, Frank Marlowe, George McKay, Robert Middlemass, Gene Morgan, Joseph North, Ted Oliver, Franklin Pangborn, Walter Perry, Lee Phelps, Lon Poff, Victor Potel, Paul Power, John Quillan, Arthur Rankin, Frank Rice, Loren Riebe, Ky Robinson, Phillip Ronalde, Henry Roquemore, Oscar Rudolph, Charles Sherlock, Antrim Short, Charles Sullivan, Henry Sylvester, Ray Turner, Emmett Vogan, Raymond Walburn, Walter Walker, George Webb, Billy West, Huey White, Robert Wilber
No official release
No official edition exists. Anything circulating comes from unofficial sources, so there is no release this site can recommend.
Best video release
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Additional info
The print seems to be preserved at Library of Congress
About the film
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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StudioCanal 4K
Director: Preston Sturges
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Indicator Blu-ray > Kino Lorber see DVDBeaver
Indicator is using a different restoration from earlier Kino Lorber Blu-ray and it has much better contrast and slightly better grain resolution
Director: Gregory La Cava
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Although there's a bit of aggressive grain management see https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=15853770&postcount=43
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Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Elaine May
Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray > MoC > Olive Films. From nicolas:
The master is good but it’s not that big an upgrade from the Olive Films disc and Vinegar Syndrome’ encode has some blocky highlights. A shame that they didn’t hire David Mackenzie here.
Cinématographe has unnecessary noise gating not present on the previous releases.
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