The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy • 1h 51m
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charles Durning, Paul Newman, Jim True-Frost, John Mahoney, Bill Cobbs, Bruce Campbell, Harry Bugin, John Seitz, Joe Grifasi, Roy Brocksmith, I.M. Hobson, John Scanlan, Jerome Dempsey, John Wylie, Gary Allen, Richard Woods, Peter McPherson, David Byrd, Christopher Darga, Patrick Cranshaw, Robert Weil, Mary Lou Rosato, Ernest Sarracino, Eleanor Glockner, Kathleen Perkins, Joseph Marcus, Peter Gallagher, Noble Willingham, Barbara Ann Grimes, Thom Noble, Steve Buscemi, William Duff-Griffin, Anna Nicole Smith, Pamela Everett, Arthur Bridgers, Sam Raimi, John Cameron, Skipper Duke, Jay Kapner, Jon Polito, Richard Whiting, Linda McCoy, Stan Adams, John Goodman, Joanne Pankow, Mario Todisco, Colin Fickes, Dick Sasso, Jesse Brewer, Philip Loch, Stan Lichtenstein, Todd Alcott, Ace O'Connell, Richard Schiff, Frank Jeffreys, Lou Criscuolo, Michael Earl Reid, Mike Starr, David Hagar, Willie Reale, Harvey Meyer, Tom Toner, David Fawcett, Jeff Still, David Gould, Gil Pearson, Marc Garber, David Massie, Mark Jeffrey Miller, Peter Siragusa, Nelson George, Mike Houlihan, Ed Lillard, Wantland Sandel, James Deuter, Roderick Peeples, Cynthia Baker
About the film
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
- Alternative Titles
- The Hudsucker Proxy
Directors: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
UK StudioCanal UHD
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Joel Coen
Director's Cut: Disappointing UK StudioCanal/US Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: LaserDisc or 2001 UK Universal DVD
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=21782879#post21782879 - comparison. StudioCanal is a massive improvement to the Criterion but still flawed in some areas (chroma noise)
Director: Joel Coen
Arrow 4K Blu-ray scheduled for November 2026 release
All the same
Director: Joel Coen
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Directors: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Joel Coen
2018 Universal 4K Blu-ray
Cinema DTS, DVD 5.1
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Vincent Sherman
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: George Pal
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Compton Bennett
4K restoration from original technicolor negatives
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Jack Conway
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.
Director: Buster Keaton
Kino Lorber new Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. Blu-ray?
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
MoC 4K Blu-ray late 2027
Lobster Films (Kino Lorber?) > Cohen/Eureka https://slow.pics/c/3KWXoMyR The new Kino Lorber's Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. might be using the same restoration as Lobster Films
Director: Billy Wilder
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
(transfer of the 1989 MGM LaserDisc, without problems plaguing Kino Lorber's release)
Arrow UHD is an update of the original 4K scan done for their BD. It is also visually far superior to the Kino version and adds Dolby Vision HDR. The Arrow UHD uses a new LD mono capture and has none of the issues or processing found in the Kino UHD which also used an LD mono capture and somehow mucked it up. Short of a brand new scan, the Arrow UHD is as good as it possibly can be.
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