Madam Satan (1930)
Romance, Music, Comedy • 1h 56m
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Roland Young, Elsa Peterson, Jack King, Eddie Prinz, Boyd Irwin, Wallace MacDonald, Tyler Brooke, Ynez Seabury, Theodore Kosloff, Julanne Johnston, Martha Sleeper, Doris McMahon, Vera Marshe, Albert Conti, Abe Lyman, Mary Carlisle, Cecil B. DeMille, Katherine DeMille, June Knight, Allan Lane, Nora Lane, Ann Sothern, Ann Dvorak, Marie Valli, Sethma Williams, Earl Askam, Rina De Liguoro, Katharine Irving, Lotus Thompson, Aileen Ransom, Judith Arlen, Wilson Benge, Jack Byron, Phyllis Crane, Edwards Davis, Marie Deauville, Dorothy Dehn, Betty Francisco, Bud Geary, Kenneth Gibson, Vera Gordon, Ella Hall, Kasha Haroldi, Lorimer Johnston, Wilfred Lucas, Elvira Lucianti, Mary McAllister, Earl McCarthy, June Nash, Louis Natheaux, Dave O'Brien, Philip Sleeman, Henry Stockbridge, Natalie Storm, Margaret Swope, Youcca Troubetzkov, Dorothy Vernon, Natalie Visart
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Overview
A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
Director: John Ford
Sources: ibb.co (opens in a new tab)
Warner Archive Blu-ray is 4K restoration from nitrate projection elements
Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ
Director: Frank Capra
Director: William Dieterle
Director: David Butler
Video format: Only Unofficial Sources
Sources: archive.org (opens in a new tab)
The DVD isn't an official one, and according to a user review on Amazon:
This DVD comes from Archive.org, where the movie can be viewed for free. The original source, comes from the Fox Movie Channel
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Kino Lorber Blu-ray with Photoplay 4K restoration
Kino Lorber Blu-ray with Carl Davis score
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Flicker Alley Blu-ray (encoded by FiM) has much better encoding than Lobster Films Blu-ray, see DVDBeaver caps
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Germany Plaion Media Blu-ray is marginally better than Kino Lorber which suffers a little dark crush: https://slow.pics/c/BME05Jlw
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Universal Blu-ray better, MoC over-sharpened https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=19993011&postcount=53
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
Director: Lloyd Bacon
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
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