Pat and Mike (1952)
Comedy, Romance • 1h 35m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray, William Ching, Sammy White, George Mathews, Gussie Moran, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Don Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Andrew Parker, Betty Hicks, Beverly Hanson, Helen Dettweiler, Loring Smith, Phyllis Povah, Charles Bronson, Frank Richards, Jim Backus, Chuck Connors, Joseph E. Bernard, Owen McGiveney, Lou Lubin, Carl Switzer, William Self, John George, Jerry Schumacher, Steve Mitchell, Peter Adams, JoAnne Aehle, Joyce Aehle, Fred Aldrich, Margaret Bert, Jack Bonigul, Stanley Briggs, Paul Brinegar, Morgan Brown, Ross Carmichael, Douglas Carter, Bill Cartledge, Russ Clark, Mae Clarke, John Close, Fred Coby, Harry Cody, Tom Coleman, Gene Coogan, Paul Cristo, Oliver Cross, Frank Cusack, Elinor Cushingham, Russell Custer, Frankie Darro, Roger Davis, Kay Deslys, Maxine Doviat, Michael Dugan, Ken DuMain, Helen Eby-Rock, Kay English, Estelle Etterre, John Fell, Tom Ferrandini, Pat Flaherty, Charles Fogel, Curt Furberg, Tom Gibson, Jack Gordon, Herschel Graham, A. Cameron Grant, Kit Guard, Robert Haines, Larry Harmon, Tom Harmon, Sam Hearn, Margaret Hedin, Elizabeth Holmes, Jimmie Horan, Charles Anthony Hughes, Chester Jones, Jimmy Kelly, Crauford Kent, Donald Kerr, Shirley Kimball, Barbara Kimbrell, Joseph La Cava, Mike Lally, Bill Lewin, John Marlin, Louis Mason, John McKee, Bill McLean, Harold Miller, King Mojave, Roger Moore, Charles Murray Jr., Forbes Murray, Richard Neill, Robert Nelson, Barry Norton, Spec O'Donnell, Kathleen O'Malley, Gil Patric, Jack Perrin, Frank Pershing, Sam Pierce, Tom Quinn, Fred Rapport, John Raven, Paula Raymond, Mitchell Rhein, Edward Rickard, Tanya Samova, Scott Seaton, Bernard Sell, Sammy Shack, John Sheehan, Mabel Smaney, J. Lewis Smith, Jane Stanton, Bert Stevens, Brick Sullivan, Frank Sully, Anthony M. Taylor, Bobby Walberg, Hank Weaver, Wilson Wood
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About the film
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
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- Pat and Mike
Director: George Cukor
Director: George Cukor
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
US Twilight Time Blu-ray or UK Signal One Blu-ray are basically the same see cap
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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