If You Could Only Cook (1935)
Comedy, Romance, Crime • 1h 12m
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Lionel Stander, Alan Edwards, Frieda Inescort, Gene Morgan, Ralf Harolde, Matt McHugh, Richard Powell, Mariska Aldrich, William Anderson, John Ardell, William Arnold, Wyrley Birch, Ralph Brooks, Ann Bupp, Michelette Burani, Walter Byron, Romaine Callender, Mary Jane Carey, Jack Cheatham, James Conaty, Edith Conrad, Helen Conway, Georgie Cooper, Frank Hall Crane, Lew Davis, Peggy Dawson, Wally Dean, Edgar Dearing, Sayre Dearing, Bill Dillon, Edith Emelyne, Estelle Etterre, Bess Flowers, Jean Fowler, John Guston, Jonathan Hale, Katherine Hall, Peggy Helm, Althea Henley, Henry Hebert, Russell Hicks, Arthur Hohl, Mike Lally, William Lally, Lois Lindsay, Charles Mason, Edward McWade, George Meeker, Torben Meyer, Robert Middlemass, Edmund Mortimer, Joseph North, Field Norton, Eddie Parker, Don Roberts, Frederick Roland, Constantine Romanoff, Adrian Rosley, Frances Shipp, Larry Steers, Harry Strathey, Jackie Lee Tracy, John Tyrrell, Pierre Watkin, George Webb, Lee Willard, William Worthington
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About the film
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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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
Director: Dennis Hopper
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Director: David Lean
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The 5.1 on Sony 4K Blu-ray is from the 1989 70mm mix. The original is 4-track. not on the disc.
Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: Satoshi Kon
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Director: Ben Stiller
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Director: Luc Besson
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2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray vs 2017 Sony 4K Blu-ray (20th annivesary) vs 2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray (Luc Besson Box Set). The first two have totally different texture.
StudioCanal: More natural looking. Better defined grain. The white balance is rather yellow/orange. Some say it is closer to the original theatrical release.
2017 Sony: More vibrant and impactful. The white balance is rather neutral. While color noise and grain can look busy because it had been sharpened and had micro-contrast boosted.
2025 Sony: Supposedly an improved version of the 2017 release? Shows around 20mbps-higher overall video bitrate. caps
2007 Sony Blu-ray or LaserDisc AC3? (TBC) https://fanrestore.com/thread-7303.html
The Atmos on the Sony release is reportedly better than StudioCanal's.
Disc info of the box set discs. This film have recieved multiple encode/versions in different regions over the years. The 2017 Germany4K Blu-ray is encoded differently than the 2017 Sony but not better. Also, the same can be said to 2024 France Gaumont 4K Blu-ray while comparing to the 2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. The StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray omits all the extras from previous releases, being barebones.
Director: Frank Capra
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