Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Comedy, Romance • 1h 39m
Directors: Michael Curtiz & Busby Berkeley
Cast: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Doris Day, Oscar Levant, S.Z. Sakall, Fortunio Bonanova, Eric Blore, Franklin Pangborn, Leslie Brooks, William Bakewell, John Berkes, Avon Long, Page Cavanaugh, Sir Lancelot, John Alvin, Nestor Amaral, Carlos Barbe, Barbara Bates, Brandon Beach, María Belmar, Mary Benoit, George Boyce, Paul Bradley, Chet Brandenburg, Leonard Bremen, Kenneth Britton, Tex Brodus, Norma Brown, Robert Cabal, James Carlisle, Steve Carruthers, Wheaton Chambers, Tristram Coffin, G. Pat Collins, Gino Corrado, Oliver Cross, Frank Dae, Jay Eaton, Joe Evans, Mary Field, Bess Flowers, Charles Fogel, Phyllis Forbes, Gerry Ganzer, Joe Gilbert, Fred Godoy, Dick Gordon, Sandra Gould, Stuart Hall, Sam Harris, John Holland, Stuart Holmes, Emory Johnson, Dick Johnstone, Douglas Kennedy, Kay Koury, Otto Kruger, Louise Lane, Perk Lazelle, Ruth Lewis, King Lockwood, Leota Lorraine, Robert Locke Lorraine, Wilbur Mack, Thomas Martin, Martin Mason, Clyde McLeod, Frank McLure, Harold Miller, Ray Montgomery, George Moro, Sol Murgi, George Nardelli, George N. Neise, Maila Nurmi, Eddie Parks, Rosemary Pettit, Paul Power, Jean Ransome, Frances Rey, Larry Rio, Ramon Ros, Susanne Rosser, Edith Russell, Paul Russell, Frank J. Scannell, Scott Seaton, Cyril Smith, Owen Song, Ted Stanhope, Paul Stathes, Grady Sutton, George Suzanne, Tyra Vaughn, Janet Warren, Martin Wilkins, Victor Zimmerman
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About the film
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
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- Romance on the High Seas
Director: Michael Curtiz
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Michael Curtiz
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Michael Curtiz
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
(caveat: has a slight error)
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
2008 WB Blu-ray (from a 2003 transfer)
(Still not great)
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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