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
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About the film
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.
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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: 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
Director: George Stevens
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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