I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Comedy, Romance, War • 1h 45m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart, Bill Neff, Russ Conway, Gene Garrick, William Self, Robert Adair, Chris Adcock, Mark Baker, Michael Balfour, Buzz Barbee, Estelle Brody, André Charlot, H.P. Crowe, Patricia Cutts, Coral Drouyn, Alex Gerry, Paul Hardtmuth, Joe Haworth, Gil Herman, Arthur Hill, Carl Jaffe, Lily Kann, Robert Kleinert, Harry Lauter, Alfred Linder, Mike Mahoney, Patricia Marmont, Stanley Maxted, Bill McLean, David McMahon, Martin Miller, William Murphy, Lionel Murton, Richard Neilson, Robert Nichols, Robert Patten, Barbara Perry, Edward Platt, Ben Pollock, William Pullen, Otto Reichow, Harold Sanderson, John Serret, Lester Sharpe, Kenneth Tobey, Werner Tronjeck, Mavis Villiers, Ruben Wendorf, John Whitney, William Yetter Sr., Kay Young, John Zilly, Robert Stevenson
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About the film
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
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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: Howard Hawks
Director: Howard Hawks
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Criterion, 4k transfer
Director: Howard Hawks
Director: Howard Hawks
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Criterion 4K Blu-ray (not by much, caps)
Closest to original: 1995 Columbia LaserDisc
But Sony 4K Blu-ray is the best available one.
From cbc:
I much prefer the 4K Blu-ray track. LaserDisc has several nasty constant hums, and even after you remove that, the detail level is on-par with the 4K Blu-ray and has a lot of crackling. The 4K Blu-ray has some variable noise reduction, but it's done well and non-intrusive IMO, I watched it with that track and was happy.
Directors: Henry Hathaway & Howard Hawks & Henry King & Henry Koster & Jean Negulesco
More Comedy on Blu-ray
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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