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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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.
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
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
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
More Comedy on Blu-ray
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
Director: Paul King
StudioCanal UK 4K Blu-ray minimal picture upgrade (2K upscale)
StudioCanal UK 4K Blu-ray has good new Atmos mix
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Sony release without the filtering; Comparison between Sony and Criterion.
Mono: 1994 LaserDisc (marginally, unfiltered) or Criterion 4K Blu-ray (filtered)
5.1 Remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Steve De Jarnatt
2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray
UK Transmission 4K Blu-ray in January 2027
Either the 2015 Kino Lorber Blu-ray or the Arrow Blu-ray
The 2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray is botched.
Director: Bruce Robinson
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has stronger encode than Criterion
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