Summer Stock (1950)
Music, Romance • 1h 48m
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, Phil Silvers, Ray Collins, Nita Bieber, Carleton Carpenter, Hans Conried, Paul E. Burns, Erville Alderson, Dickie Humphreys, Dorothy Tuttle, Jeanne Coyne, Jean Adcock, Bette Arlen, Hal Bell, Margaret Bert, John Brascia, George Bunny, Nora Bush, Roy Butler, Bridget Carr, Michael Chapin, Bill Chatham, Joan Dale, Jack Daley, Johnny Duncan, Eddie Dunn, Eugene Freedley, Jack Gargan, Slim Gaut, Alex Goudovitch, A. Cameron Grant, Carol Haney, Betty Hannon, Jimmie Horan, Teddy Infuhr, Dick Johnstone, Al Kunde, Ann Kunde, Rena Lenart, Arthur M. Loew Jr., William Lundy, Bert May, Hamil Petroff, Frank Pharr, Joe Ploski, Don Powell, Elynne Ray, Marilyn Reiss, Ricky Ricardi, Joe Roach, Albert Ruiz, Almira Sessions, Allen D. Sewall, Kathryn Sheldon, Reginald Simpson, Henry Sylvester, Joanne Tree, Glen Walters, Bunny Waters, Carol West, Jimmy Thompson
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About the film
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.
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4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Charles Walters
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray is a remaster from the original VistaVision camera negaitve, FiM encode
The original mono sounds good. The Atmos remix is a mixed bag, music performances are sourced from magnetic stereo recordings and sound great, but mono dialogue/effectshas undergone destructive noise reduction and unnecessary EQ, so the jumps in fidelity are incredibly jarring.
Director: David Lean
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The legacy extras are AI-upscaled
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
More Music on Blu-ray
Shout! Factory's Blu-ray 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! Factory 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.
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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