Auntie Mame (1958)
Comedy, Drama • 2h 23m
Director: Morton DaCosta
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Patric Knowles, Peggy Cass, Jan Handzlik, Joanna Barnes, Pippa Scott, Lee Patrick, Willard Waterman, Robin Hughes, Connie Gilchrist, Yuki Shimoda, Brook Byron, Carol Veazie, Henry Brandon, Frank Baker, Lela Bliss, Margaret Dumont, Gregory Gaye, Colin Kenny, Frank McLure, Harold Miller, Leoda Richards, Bert Stevens, Dub Taylor, John Alban, Edna Smith, Raoul Freeman, Sam Harris, John Albright, Cris Alexander, Walter Bacon, Olive Blakeney, Nina Borget, Peter Bourne, John Caler, Evelyn Ceder, Roydon Clark, Booth Colman, Max Cutler, Morton DaCosta, Jack Daly, Mark Dana, Minta Durfee, Saundra Edwards, Adolph Faylauer, Charles Fogel, Kay Garrett, Robert Gates, James Gonzalez, Rand Harper, Michael Harris, Chester Hayes, Charles Heard, Butch Hengen, Gloria Holden, Dick Hudkins, Terry Kelman, Fred Kelsey, Mike Lally, Louise Lane, Perk Lazelle, Cajan Lee, Carl M. Leviness, Robert Locke Lorraine, Thomas Martin, Tom McDonough, Owen McGiveney, Jack Mower, Sol Murgi, Forbes Murray, George Nardelli, Ron Nyman, Doye O'Dell, Barbara Pepper, Fred Perce, Jack Perrin, Richard Reeves, Waclaw Rekwart, Larry Rio, Gladys Varden, Victor Romito, Sam Savitsky, Jeffrey Sayre, Hazel Shermet, Dean Smith, Smokey, Arthur Tovey, Eleanore Vogel, Glen Walters, Ruth Warren
Best video release
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray from 12K scan
Best audio release
For the most part, the mono track available on the BD and UHD is fine, but there's an 8 minutes long segment which sounds terrible with artificially expanded frequency range causing very audible artifacting. The 5.1 remix doesn't have that issue. Sample
UHD tiers
Caveat: flawed audio
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About the film
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
- Alternative Titles
- Auntie Mame
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
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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