It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Music, Comedy, Romance • 1h 42m
Directors: Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Michael Kidd, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, David Burns, Jay C. Flippen, Paul Maxey, Almira Sessions, Madge Blake, Hal March, Herb Vigran, Lou Lubin, Leoda Richards, Frank Nelson, June Foray, Colin Kenny, Forbes Murray, William H. O'Brien, Cosmo Sardo, Jeffrey Sayre, Steve Mitchell, Dick Gordon, Herschel Graham, Betty Arlen, Phil Arnold, Sybil Bacon, Walter Bacon, Al Bain, Jimmy Baird, Tom Bernard, Willie Bloom, Eugene Borden, Sven Hugo Borg, John Breen, Ralph Brooks, Paul Bryar, Benny Burt, Steve Carruthers, James J. Casino, Dick Cherney, Beulah Christian, John Cliff, Betty Comden, Bing Conley, Jud Conlon, Gene Coogan, Don Crichton, Russell Custer, Linda Danson, Tony Dante, Gary Diamond, Dan Dowling, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marietta Elliott, Bill Filippo, Duke Fishman, George Ford, Alex Gerry, Frank Gerstle, Kenneth Gibson, James Gonzalez, Sol Gorss, Robert Haines, Stuart Holmes, Jimmie Horan, Shep Houghton, John Indrisano, Johnny Kern, Donald Kerr, Henry Kulky, Richard LaMarr, Luana Lee, Peter Leeds, Herbert Lytton, John Marlin, Nancy Matthews, Bert May, Frank Mitchell, Mike Morelli, Charles Morton, Ben Moselle, Barry Norton, Monty O'Grady, Charles Owens, Christian Pasques, Foster H. Phinney, Gerald Pierce, Murray Pollack, Pope Pius XII, Fred Rapport, Thurl Ravenscroft, Carol Richards, Suzanne Ridgway, Bernard Sell, Sammy Shack, Jeanne Shores, Dick Simmons, Carl Sklover, Ralph Smiley, J. Lewis Smith, Cap Somers, Norman Stevans, Gloria Stone, Charles Sullivan, Hal Taggart, Jack Stewart Taylor, Harry S. Truman, Renata Vanni, Tito Vuolo, Fred Walton, Jeri Weil, Harry Wilson, Terry Wilson, Wilson Wood, Rodney Bieber
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About the film
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.
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- It's Always Fair Weather
Director: Stanley Donen
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Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps comparing UHD vs BD: https://slow.pics/c/IVNrYoYW
For older Blu-ray: Criterion Blu-ray > Universal Blu-ray with slightly worse encoding > Japan Paramount or UK Park Circus Blu-ray with significantly flatter contrast (possibly Quicktime Gamma Bug?) see caps
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 Music on Blu-ray
Directors: Chris Appelhans & Maggie Kang
"Sing-Along Edition" not included on the Criterion 4K Blu-ray, only available on Netflix Streaming
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Director: Damien Chazelle
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
US Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray re-release announced with Dolby Vision, a new exclusive bonus, and the previously retailer pre-order bonus-exclusive/Hong Kong-exclusive bonus interviews in HD
Italy Eagle Pictures has DV, better encode, and no brightness shifts compared to Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray for the original Dolby Atmos mix
Hong Kong Panorama 4K Blu-ray has two interviews available in HD that are SD everywhere else and only included as retailer-exclusive pre-order bonus DVDs with the US Blu-ray
Directors: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
UK StudioCanal UHD
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Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Shout Factory Blu-ray
Shout's BD has both cuts of the film in addition to the 3.0 stereo and 2.0 mono mixes making it the first time the full theatrical cut is available with the 3.0 mix. The new commentary is good. The 3.0 stereo sounds wonderful and the mono sounds solid.
That's where the positives end. This is the same terrible Universal DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc with a terrible encode making both versions share the disc separately taking up more space. This master was already poor for DVD and is nearly unwatchable here on the Shout disc. It looks virtually identical to the upscaled DVD most of the time with only a bit less noise due to it being 1080p. This is one of the most appalling cases of "DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc" you can possibly find. Absolutely shameful video presentation. This should have never been released this way. Sadly it's still ever so slightly better than the DVD and the only way you get the proper theatrical cut with lossless 3.0 stereo. This is still the best source we have for the film.
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