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Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
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Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance • 3h 2m

Director: Michael Anderson

Cast: David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Newton, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley, Charles Boyer, Gilbert Roland, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra, Buster Keaton, John Carradine, Peter Lorre, George Raft, Tim McCoy, Joe E. Brown, Melville Cooper, Reginald Denny, Ronald Colman, Trevor Howard, Harcourt Williams, Martine Carol, Cedric Hardwicke, Noël Coward, John Gielgud, Fernandel, Evelyn Keyes, José Greco, Cesar Romero, Alan Mowbray, Charles Coburn, Red Skelton, Andy Devine, Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, John Mills, Glynis Johns, Hermione Gingold, Edward R. Murrow, Mike Mazurki, Ronald Squire, Basil Sydney, Luis Miguel Dominguín, Robert Cabal, Jack Oakie, Beatrice Lillie, A.E. Matthews, Walter Fitzgerald, Ronald Adam, Frank Royde, Abdullah Abbas, Jesse Adams, Fred Aldrich, Ray Armstrong, Gertrude Astor, Walter Bacon, Rama Bai, Leah Baird, Brandon Beach, Eugene Beday, Helena Benda, Audrey Betz, George Blagoi, Eumenio Blanco, Nina Borget, Danny Borzage, Hazel Boyne, George Bruggeman, Bob Burrows, Paul Busch, Gordon Carveth, Spencer Chan, Jack Chefe, Dick Cherney, Bud Cokes, Louise Colombet, Bill Couch, Paul Cristo, Roy Damron, Eddie Das, John Davidson, Jack Davies, Jack Davis, Anna De Linsky, Gloria Dea, John Deauville, Harry Denny, James Dime, Joe Dougherty, Dan Dowling, Harry Duff, Arthur Dulac, Charles Dunbar, Renald Dupont, Larry Duran, Minta Durfee, Jack Ellis, Richard Elmore, Frank Erickson, Bob Evans, Harry Evans, Franklyn Farnum, Art Felix, Grace Field, Sam Finn, Bess Flowers, Frances Fong, Otto Forrest, Helen Foster, Jesús Franco, Ben Frommer, Curt Furburg, Joe Garcio, Joe Gilbert, Mary Gleason, June Glory, Albert Godderis, James Gonzalez, Carmelita González, Dick Gordon, Bernie Gozier, William Graeff Jr., Herschel Graham, Donald Gray, Kit Guard, Paul Gustine, Herman Hack, Robert Haines, Stuart Hall, Chick Hannan, Silver Harr, Sam Harris, Clarence Hennecke, Lars Hensen, George Hickman, Chuck Hicks, Stuart Holmes, Jimmie Horan, Yoneo Iguchi, Allen Jaffe, Robert James, Dolly Jarvis, Michael Jeffers, Leroy Johnson, Dick Johnstone, Harvey Karels, Willie Keeler, Jack Kenny, Al Kikume, Max Kleven, Paul Kruger, Ann Kunde, Jeanne Lafayette, Richard LaMarr, Alfredo Landa, Jack Lee, Virginia Ann Lee, Harry Leroy, Carl M. Leviness, Shirley Lew, Tien-Lang Li, Baron James Lichter, Marco López, Casey MacGregor, Joseph Marievsky, Johnny Marlin, Thomas Martin, Frank McLure, Marie Melesh, Harold Miller, Gordon Mitchell, King Mojave, Joe Molina, Ernesto Molinari, Ralph Moratz, Clive Morgan, Charles Morton, Sol Murgi, Frank Nagai, George Nardelli, Barry Norton, Faye Michael Nuell, Daniel Nunez, William H. O'Brien, Monty O'Grady, Lillian O'Malley, Kent Odell, Yasuzō Ogawa, Bob Okazaki, Victor Paul, Charles Pendelton, Elsa Peterson, Joe Ploski, Byron Poindexter, Lucille Porcett, Don Pulford, Bill Raisch, Fred Rapport, Bob Reeves, Max Reid, Waclaw Rekwart, Peggy Remington, David Richardson, Buddy Roosevelt, George Ross, Joe E. Ross, Marion Ross, Tony Roux, John Roy, Dick Ryan, Loulette Sablon, Danny Sands, Cosmo Sardo, Sam Savitsky, Jeffrey Sayre, Charles Schaeffer, Fred Scheiwiller, Eddie Searles, Scott Seaton, Bernard Sell, Sammy Shack, Leslie Sketchley, June Smaney, Mabel Smaney, J. Lewis Smith, Charles Soldani, Stephen Soldi, Kalu K. Sonkur, Hayward Soo Hoo, Walter Soo Hoo, Ray Spiker, Robert St. Angelo, John Starck, Norman Stevans, Bert Stevens, Jack Stoney, Ramón Sánchez, Mike Tellegen, Lillian Ten Eyck, Jack Tornek, Arthur Tovey, Michael Trubshawe, Tony Urchel, Sailor Vincent, Sally Yarnell, William Yokota, Mary Young, Patrick Cargill, Richard Aherne, Frank Baker, John Benson, Albert Cavens, Fred Cavens, Cecil Combs, Ashley Cowan, Roy Darmour, Leslie Denison, Carli Elinor, Raoul Freeman, Rudy Germane, Arthur Gould-Porter, Cameron Hall, Chuck Hamilton, Roddy Hughes, Joanna Vogel, Weaver Levy, Fateh Lohani, Joan Lora, Manuel López, William Meader, Jack Mulhall, Satini Pualoa, Bill Shine, Bhogwan Singh, Cap Somers, Philip Van Zandt, Carol White, Bob Whitney, Noble 'Kid' Chissell, Alphonso DuBois, Philip Ahn, Richard Loo, Chet Brandenburg, Martin Cichy, Campbell Cotts, Felix Felton, Frederick Leister, Norman MacOwan, Adolph Faylauer, Russell Meeker, Duke Fishman, John George, Al Haskell, Tex Holden, Charles Horvath, Boyd 'Red' Morgan, Shep Houghton, Walter Kingsford, Keye Luke, Frank Mills, Manuel París, Jack Perrin, Robert Robinson, Edwin Rochelle, Phil Schumacher, Dick Wessel, Suzanne Ridgway, Winona Smith, Tom Allen, Johnny Sekka, Al Bain, Dee Sharon, Charles Fogel, Jane Chung, John Zuniga, Esther Zeithern, Allen Zeidman, Margaret Zane, George Sasaki

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Overview

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Release details

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Length
182 mins
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Director: Sian Heder

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Has full and forced English subtitles

See caps comparing Italy vs US release

Best Audio:

Apple TV 4K Blu-ray with Atmos

Audio Notes:

(Eagle Pictures is 5.1)

Director: Miloš Forman

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Warner Bros Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray: Huge improvement in colors and detail. The restoration was done by the Academy instead of WB MPI which explains that there’s no grain management or issues with colors. They also accessed the original credit optical and scanned that one instead of recreating them digitally

Audio Notes:

Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray, according to Saentz, the 5.0 is a recreation of the original and subsequently 70mm mix from original elements.

Director: John Schlesinger

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Imprint 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

Included Imprint Blu-Ray also has markedly better image compression than the Criterion Blu-Ray, though do note the Imprint has some adjusted color grading within roughly the first five minutes of the film

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=16775595&postcount=450

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24237074&postcount=73

Director: Anthony Minghella

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Lionsgate Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release

Video Notes:

US Lionsgate Blu-ray looks very different from either Italy Eagle Pictures or Germany Kinowelt Blu-ray: https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=502 but other than color grading looks better

Director: George Roy Hill

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1998 R1 Universal DVD

Director: Robert Wise

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Audio Notes:

Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.

All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.

Director: Jonathan Demme

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release

Video Notes:

> Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Criterion Blu-ray has exclusive extras

Directors: Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · in70mm.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Comparison, caps

Audio Notes:

Capelight's 5.1 is sourced from the original 6-track. The fidelity is comparable to the 4.0 from the 4-track available on previous BDs.
An alternate 5.1 mix was created for the 1999 MGM DVD / LaserDisc, It boasts better high end detail throughout, but the trade off is reduced bass.

See additional info for more detail.

Additional Info:

West Side Story was produced as a 70mm Todd-AO presentation, with an accompanying 6-track audio mix in the following channel configuration: see diagram. 35mm presentations used a 4-track or a mono mixdown instead.

The original 6-track elements were thought to have been lost until they were recovered and restored in 2010. In 1981, for the film's 20th anniversary, a new 6-track mix was created by upmixing the available 4-track elements.

Capelight's release is sourced from original 6-track elements uncovered in 2010, but unfortunately it's not as detailed as it should be, owing to unnecessary noise reduction. It's by no means bad, but it could be better. As the Lc/Rc channels are mixed into into L/C/R, it's also essentially no different to a 4-track fold-down. This isn't exactly an issue as left/right center channels mix down to L/C/R very well, but a better way of handling this would be to use Atmos objects to position those channels where they should be, as Disney did on The Sound of Music.

The 4-track mix was included in a discrete form on MGM's previous BD, it trades blows with Capelight's 6-track-derived 5.1.

Interestingly, the 1999 MGM LaserDisc/DVD release includes a different 5.1 mix, which sounds a bit more detailed than the two other tracks. It's sound signature is on the brighter side, with a slight emphasis on the treble instead of bass like other releases. Although that accounts for some of the perceived detail, even after matching EQ there are spots where Capelight loses out. It's a slight upmix, with split surrounds and LFE. Whether it was derived from 4-track or 6-track elements is not clear, though it matters little, as the end result would have been very similar in either case. There are no booklet notes stating the source used, but it sounds very similar to the matrixed 1992 LD, which was attributed to the 6-track. Still, given that the original elements were thought to have been lost, I would assume that this refers to the 1981 mix.

Previous LaserDisc releases are similar to the discrete 1999 track. All LD releases are missing the intermission music and a brief whistling sequence.

The 7.1 upmix on MGM's Blu-ray offers little of value.

Director: John G. Avildsen

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 2024 Ultimate Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray/ Warner Bros 2023 Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray (replacement disc)

Upcoming Release:

Capelight 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Original Mono: Ultimate Knockout Collection/Knockout Collection replacement disc

Audio Notes:

> Knockout collection original.

The Mono mix on the initial release of the Knockout Collection is a fold-down of the 5.1, the replacement disc and the ultimate knockout version fixed the error. 

Additional Info:

The Steelbook and UK standard edition is the same disc as the 2023 knockout collection.

Director: Norman Jewison

4K · Excellent

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Director: Michael Anderson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray teased

Director: Michael Anderson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Michael Anderson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

More Adventure on Blu-ray

Director: Rose Glass

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

A24 4K Blu-ray

Best Video & Audio:

Plaion Germany 4K Blu-ray 

Video Notes:

Markedly better encoding on Plaion than A24 and without any low-pass filtering

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

2026 Japan Studio Ghibli (remastered) Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Only included as a pack-in with the 4K Blu-ray. Includes English subtitles and a dub, which the 4K Blu-ray does not.

Best Audio:

Japan Studio Ghibli 4K Blu-ray

UK StudioCanal Blu-ray for the English dub

Audio Notes:

4K Blu-ray includes the original 5.1 mix in its unaltered form, all other releases after the LaserDisc had its dynamic range lowered.

For the English dub, the UK StudioCanal Blu-ray is the least limited mix.

Additional Info:

US Disney Blu-ray has dubtitles. US GKIDS Blu-ray and Japan Studio Ghibli Blu-ray releases (both 2013, box set, and RM4K) have proper English subtitle translations.

Director: James Gunn

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Commentary is only on Streaming

Director: Gus Van Sant

Best English-Friendly:

US Shout! Factory Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Best Video & Audio:

French Carlotta Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Shout! Factory and Carlotta use the same scan https://slow.pics/c/Wcn5YFlw, the Carlotta has two extra bonus features

Director: Anthony Mann

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray reissue (4K restoration)

Video Notes:

Massive picture upgrade as the 4K restoration addresses the massive color fringing that has plagued all previous dated masters. Oddly the titles are a different color now.

Additional Info:

4K restoration is a gigantic and essential picture upgrade but only available on the Kino Blu-ray reissue. No UHD has been made or announced by anyone. 

Director: Anthony Mann

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Additional Info:

This is an ancient Universal master of a film in dire need of restoration. This only looks somewhat better than the old Universal DVD upscaled and is clearly the same master. Tons of wear, color fringing and other issues abound. The film is stuck at the theatrical widescreen ratio of 1.85:1 when it was composed for Academy ratio. The proper ratio is only found on the trailer, original VHS master and Region 2 PAL DVD. The Kino BD is their usual barebones affair except for flawed low res trailer files and a basic commentary. The film's 3.0 stereo mix is intact alongside the more limited mono mix thankfully. The BD does edge out over the old Universal DVD but that is merely due to it being the same master resolving better in 1080p. This presentation is sadly poor and the film deserves much better.

Director: Chris Columbus

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray (includes Extended Cut on regular Blu-ray)

Best Audio:

Original theatrical 6.1 mix: 2009 Warner Bros Blu-ray Ultimate Edition (Theatrical Cut only) 

Extended Cut 5.1 mix: Warner Bros Blu-ray

DTS:X remix: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

The film is titled Sorcerer's Stone in the US, India, and the Philippines.

Wizard's/Hogwarts Collection has all the bonus features for all the 8 films. 

The lossless version of the original 6.1 mix is only available on the ultimate edition blu-ray not to be confused with the ultimate collectors edition blu-ray.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, work done to un-Nolan the 4K master, the first ever appearance of the 35mm mono track on physical media and a new restoration/remastering of the 70mm 6-track mix.

Video Notes:

(early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed)

Best Audio:

1997 MGM LaserDisc, 1998 MGM DVD

Director: Stanley Kubrick

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Criterion Box Set coming on October 20th with FiM encode

Audio Notes:

DTS:X mix most closely approximates original surround mix

Additional Info:

Criterion DVD has additional features not found on the 4K Blu-ray

Director: John Huston

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1992 MGM VHS

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