Battle Cry (1955)
War, Drama, Romance • 2h 29m
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, James Whitmore, Nancy Olson, Raymond Massey, Tab Hunter, Anne Francis, Dorothy Malone, Fess Parker, Perry Lopez, William Campbell, Jonas Applegarth, L.Q. Jones, Allyn Ann McLerie, John Lupton, Tommy Cook, Felix Noriego, Susan Morrow, Carleton Young, Gregory Walcott, Frank Ferguson, Sarah Selby, Willis Bouchey, Roxanne Arlen, David Armstrong, Joan Arnold, John Ayres, Rayford Barnes, Paul Barry, Hal Bokar, Budd Buster, Chick Chandler, Dean Cromer, Glen Denning, Jack Downs, Don Durant, Bess Flowers, Sol Gorss, Fred Hanson, Carl Harbaugh, Lumsden Hare, Chuck Hicks, Clark Howat, Byron Keith, Harold Knudsen, June McCall, Philo McCullough, Victor Millan, Fay Morley, Jack Mower, William H. O'Brien, Eddie Parker, Hilda Plowright, Leoda Richards, Jack Rollens, George Selk, Jack Shea, Charles Sherlock, Kay Stewart, Jack Stoney, Dale Van Sickel, Sailor Vincent, Ralph Volkie, Tom Wilson
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Overview
The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.
4K restoration from original technicolor negatives
Director: Raoul Walsh
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Raoul Walsh
Sources: moma.org (opens in a new tab)
New restoration by MoMA and Film Foundation https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/11558 no release yet
Director: Raoul Walsh
Director: Raoul Walsh
Director: Raoul Walsh
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
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: 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
More War on Blu-ray
Director: Anthony Mann
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Olive Blu-ray
Barebones Olive BD of a Paramount HD master. Visually it's solid overall with some moments of great clarity, primarily in the big outdoor and aviation sequences. Otherwise it shows its age.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, new restoration/remastering of the mono mix which should be better than the 1999 WB DVD, revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1987 and for the first time ever on physical media, the film will be in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Box Set coming on October 20th with FiM encode
DTS:X mix most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD has additional features not found on the 4K Blu-ray
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Box Set
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray worse than Blu-ray with poor encoding (review)
Director: John Woo
> US Shout! Factory, better encoding by Engine House and redone opening credits, errors present in Shout! Factory fixed
Mono is from an alternate higher fidelity source than Shout! Factory.
Disney 4K Blu-ray has neutered audio compared to OG home video release
Cinema DTS or DVD DTS 5.1 is better and has more bass.
The 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray lack the bonus features found in the old Collector's Edition DVD release. The France Blu-ray has all extras plus an isolated score.
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