The More the Merrier (1943)
Comedy, Romance • 1h 44m
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines, Bruce Bennett, Frank Sully, Donald Douglas, Clyde Fillmore, Stanley Clements, Sam Ash, Don Barclay, Brandon Beach, Betzi Beaton, Hank Bell, Edward Biby, Gladys Blake, Lulu Mae Bohrman, Sally Cairns, Jack Carr, Ruth Cherrington, Chester Clute, Lew Davis, Ann Doran, Eddie Foster, Jack Gardner, Sugar Geise, Hal Gerard, Nancy Gray, Harrison Greene, Henry Hebert, Robert F. Hill, Ernest Hilliard, Helen Holmes, Russell Huestis, John Ince, Jack W. Johnston, Edna Mae Jones, Mike Lally, Pat Lane, Frank LaRue, Douglas Leavitt, Kay Linaker, Eric Mayne, Betty McMahon, Shirley Patterson, Lon Poff, Hal Price, Bertha Priestley, Fred Rapport, Henry Roquemore, Marshall Ruth, Ann Savage, Byron Shores, Jean Stevens, Grady Sutton, Diedra Vale, Douglas Wood, Marjorie Wood
HD Streaming
Video format
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 1 year ago
Overview
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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StudioCanal 4K
Director: Preston Sturges
Director: Jack Conway
Video format: HD Streaming
HBO Max HD Streaming
Warner Archive Blu-ray in Oct
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> 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: George Stevens
Director: George Stevens
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Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has unusually strong encode but only a minimal upgrade over the excellent Eureka Blu-ray
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Bruce Robinson
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has stronger encode than Criterion
Director: Olivier Assayas
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Preston Sturges
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
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