Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Comedy, Drama, Western • 1h 43m
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall, Julie Newmar, Ruta Lee, Matt Mattox, Nancy Kilgas, Virginia Gibson, Jacques d'Amboise, Norma Doggett, Betty Carr, Howard Petrie, Ian Wolfe, Kelly Brown, Matt Moore, Dick Rich, Russell Simpson, Jarma Lewis, Anna Q. Nilsson, Earl Barton, Dante DiPaolo, Marjorie Wood, Annable, Gary Armstrong, Ann Baker, Walter Beaver, Larry J. Blake, Paul Bradley, Chet Brandenburg, George Bruggeman, Robert Cole, Gene Coogan, Fred Curt, John Daheim, Billy Dix, Millie Doff, Michelle Ducasse, Helen Eby-Rock, Alex Goudovitch, Tim Graham, Carol Grel, Duane Grey, Geraldine Hall, Lois Hall, Jimmie Horan, Charles Horvath, John Indrisano, I. Stanford Jolley, Jack Kenny, Sheila James Kuehl, Bill Lee, Betty Noyes, Phil Rich, Robert Robinson, George Robotham, Gene Roth, Russell Saunders, Felix Smith, Hal Taggart, Dale Van Sickel, Margaret Wells, Terry Wilson, Bud Wolfe, Sheb Wooley, Ruth Robinson
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About the film
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
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Year of Induction: 2004
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- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
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: Sidney Lumet
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1.85:1: Kino Lorber 4K / Capelight 4K
1.66:1: Criterion 4K but low pass filtered
Comparison between the 4Ks, Criterion on the AR choice
Other discs have unnecessary filtering and sound worse, the difference isn't substantial but audible
Director: Dennis Hopper
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Flicker Alley 4K confirmed for 2027 https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24404584&postcount=1
MoC audio is better https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=225532&page=3
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Universal release without the filtering.
DTS:X mix on Universal 4K Blu-ray most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD and Universal 4K Blu-ray has additional features not found on the Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
WB 4K
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An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.
Director: Stanley Donen
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
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: 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
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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