Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Comedy, Music • 2h 7m
Director: David Butler
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Eddie Cantor, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Ann Sheridan, Dinah Shore, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, George Tobias, Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall, Hattie McDaniel, Ruth Donnelly, Don Wilson, Spike Jones, Harry Adams, Samuel Adams, Doris Ake, Henry Armetta, Paulita Arvizu, Lynn Baggett, Harry A. Bailey, Leah Baird, Juliette Ball, Elmer Ballard, Don Barclay, Joy Barlow, Janet Barrett, Benny Bartlett, William Benedict, Willie Best, Ted Billings, Monte Blue, Lennie Bluett, Perry Botkin Sr., Mildred Boyd, Betty Brodel, Jess Lee Brooks, Morgan Brown, James Burke, Fred Burns, David Butler, Rita Christiani, Stanley Clements, J.W. Cody, James Conaty, Alan Cook, Tex Cooper, James Coppedge, Ben Corbett, Eleanor Counts, Howard Davies, Dorothy Dayton, Igor Dega, Harry Depp, Joe DeRita, William Desmond, Henri DeSoto, Ralph Dunn, Dick Earle, Dick Elliott, Edgar Fairchild, Betty Farrington, Frank Faylen, James Flavin, Iris Flores, Art Foster, Charles Francis, Louise Franklin, George B. French, Edward Gargan, Phyllis Godfrey, Bert Gordon, Dick Gordon, Carl Grayson, William Haade, Harriette Haddon, Robert Haines, Bobby Hale, Creighton Hale, Avanelle Harris, Sam Harris, Paul Harvey, Hubert Head, Mark Hellinger, Cleo Herndon, Martha Holliday, Marjorie Hoshelle, Arthur Stuart Hull, Earl Hunsaker, Brandon Hurst, Henry Iblings, Boyd Irwin, Charles Irwin, Eugene Jackson, Noble Johnson, Jack W. Johnston, Fred Kelsey, Colin Kenny, Arnold Kent, Skelton Knaggs, Dudley Kuzelle, Lucille La Marr, Mary Landa, Richard Lane, Georgia Lee, Carl M. Leviness, Wilbur Mack, Jerry Mandy, Hank Mann, Lou Marcelle, Angelita Mari, Terry Martin, Joan Matthews, Frank Mayo, Mike Mazurki, Fred McEvoy, Matt McHugh, Frank McLure, Howard M. Mitchell, Millie Monroe, Bert Moorhouse, Edmund Mortimer, Jack Mower, Jack Norton, Florence O'Brien, Helen O'Hara, Anne O'Neal, Harriet Olsen, Sylvia Opert, Virginia Patton, Harry Pilcer, Del Porter, Angi O. Poulos, Joyce Reynolds, Dick Rich, George Rock, Loretta Russell, Paul Russell, Margarita Savilla, Dorothy Schoemer, Scott Seaton, Charles Soldani, Will Stanton, Juanita Stark, Count Stefenelli, Anne G. Sterling, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, David Thursby, Mary Treen, Billy Wayne, Doodles Weaver, Lillian West, Conrad Wiedell, Buster Wiles, Billy Wilkerson, Tudor Williams, Joan Winfield, Nancy Worth, Duke York
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Overview
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from original Technicolor camera negative
Director: David Butler
4K restoration from original technicolor negatives
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: John Ford
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Warner Archive Blu-ray is 4K restoration from nitrate projection elements
Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Bruce Robinson
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has stronger encode than Criterion
Director: Olivier Assayas
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
Director: Preston Sturges
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Director: Tommy O'Haver
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
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Eureka UK are considering doing a 4K and actively exploring the possibility: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24363810&postcount=264
Wonderful underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion, but NexSpec encode has clipped highlights with the occasional blockiness. The Criterion Blu-Ray, sourced from their 4K remaster, ironically makes for a more consistent and overall pleasing experience.
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