It Started with a Kiss (1959)
Comedy, Romance • 1h 44m
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Eva Gabor, Gustavo Rojo, Fred Clark, Edgar Buchanan, Harry Morgan, Robert Warwick, Frances Bavier, Netta Packer, Robert Cunningham, Alice Backes, Carmen Phillips, Don Anderson, Jan Arvan, Benjie Bancroft, Shirley Blackwell, Gene Blakely, Willis Bouchey, William Boyett, Paul Bradley, Jan Brooks, Paul Bryar, Steve Carruthers, Rick Crewes, Richard Deacon, Francis De Sales, Bess Flowers, George Ford, Abel Franco, Warren Frost, Martín Garralaga, Kay Garrett, Kenneth Gibson, Herschel Graham, Ed Haskett, George Hoagland, Stuart Holmes, Robert Hutton, Morgan Jones, Pat Jones, Sid Kane, Betty Koch, Richard LaMarr, Joi Lansing, Perk Lazelle, Edward Le Veque, Wilbur Mack, Bert Madrid, Maurice Marsac, David O. McCall, Howard McNear, William Meader, Harold Miller, Forbes Murray, George Nardelli, Monty O'Grady, Murray Pollack, José Portugal, Paul Power, Isabel Randolph, Paul Ravel, Marion Ross, Cosmo Sardo, Jeffrey Sayre, Scott Seaton, Charles Seel, Bernard Sell, J. Lewis Smith, Norman Stevens, Ralph Taeger, Virginia Walper, Harlan Warde, Luree Wiese, Carleton Young
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About the film
While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic.
- Alternative Titles
- It Started with a Kiss
Director: George Marshall
Kino Lorber Blu-ray 2K restoration from fine-grain
Directors: Henry Hathaway & John Ford & George Marshall
Warner Bros Blu-ray 2-Disc version (Digibook) for the Smilebox presentation
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Director: George Marshall
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
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?
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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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