It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
Comedy, Romance, Music • 1h 56m
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore, Gale Storm, Grant Mitchell, Edward Brophy, Alan Hale Jr., Dorothea Kent, Edward Ryan, Cathy Carter, Charles Lane, Arthur Hohl, Edward Gargan, James Flavin, John Hamilton, Chester Clute, Anthony Sydes, Eddie Marr, George Lloyd, Johnny Arthur, Jean Andren, Florence Auer, Leon Belasco, George Blagoi, Chet Brandenburg, John Breen, James Cardwell, Dudley Dickerson, Adolph Faylauer, Al Fenney, Jack George, Pat Goldin, Bert Howard, Major Kieffer, William Kline, Carl M. Leviness, Vera Lewis, David Martell, Rowland McCracken, George Meader, Howard M. Mitchell, Sol Murgi, William H. O'Brien, Garry Owen, Abe Reynolds, Linda Lee Solomon, Bert Stevens, Jack Stoney, Victor Travis, Max Willenz, Al Winters
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About the film
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
- Alternative Titles
- It Happened on 5th Avenue, It Happened on Fifth Avenue
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
Directors: Vincente Minnelli & Lemuel Ayers & Roy Del Ruth & George Sidney & Robert Lewis
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
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
More Comedy on Blu-ray
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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