Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)
Comedy • 1h 12m
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe, Billie Burke, Walter Kingsford, Barton Hepburn, June Havoc, Georges Metaxa, Eddie Marr, Paul Porcasi, Bert Roach, Chick Chandler, Lorraine Miller, Richard Hageman, Marek Windheim, Ellen Lowe, Barry Macollum, Joe Devlin, Hal K. Dawson, Andrew Tombes, Byron Foulger, Ann Hunter, Bess Flowers, Sidney Miller, Harry Tyler, Jody Gilbert, Bobby Barber, Don Brodie, Jack Chefe, Kernan Cripps, Jack Gardner, Buddy Gorman, Mike Lally, Matt McHugh, Harold Miller, Neyle Morrow, Field Norton, Tom Quinn, Leonard Walker, Jack Carr
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Overview
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
ClassicFlix Fleischer Cartoons: Greatest Hits, Volume 1 Blu-ray
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Also available in official HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3urxyp4wEgw
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Sources: cinema.ucla.edu (opens in a new tab)
Potentially new restoration UCLA premiere
Director: Robert F. McGowan
ClassicFlix The Little Rascals Volume 2 Blu-ray
Director: Frank Capra
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
ClassicFlix Blu-ray is using the same source and is superior to Youtube 4K Streaming
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Paul King
StudioCanal UK 4K Blu-ray minimal picture upgrade (2K upscale)
StudioCanal UK 4K Blu-ray has good new Atmos mix
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Sony release without the filtering; Comparison between Sony and Criterion.
Mono: 1994 LaserDisc (marginally, unfiltered) or Criterion 4K Blu-ray (filtered)
5.1 Remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Steve De Jarnatt
2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray
UK Transmission 4K Blu-ray in January 2027
Either the 2015 Kino Lorber Blu-ray or the Arrow Blu-ray
The 2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray is botched.
Director: Bruce Robinson
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has stronger encode than Criterion
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