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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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.
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
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: 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
Director: Olivier Assayas
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
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