Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Music, Comedy, Romance, Western • 1h 47m
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, Benay Venuta, Clinton Sundberg, Dorothy Abbott, Bette Arlen, Polly Bailey, Hal Bell, Evelyn Beresford, Margaret Bert, Norman Borine, Tex Brodus, Eleanor Brown, Archie Butler, George Calliga, Sue Carlton, Bridget Carr, Sue Casey, André Charlot, Dorinda Clifton, Mae Clarke, Diane Dick, Helen Dickson, Michael Dugan, Phil Dunham, Edward Earle, Marietta Elliott, Herbert Evans, Luigi Faccuito, Budd Fine, Elizabeth Flournoy, Lee Tung Foo, Mary Jane French, Fred Gilman, Mary Gleason, A. Cameron Grant, Marion Gray, William Hall, John Hamilton, Sam Harris, Jean Harrison, Dell Henderson, Carol Henry, Shep Houghton, Tom Humphrey, Ed Kilroy, Helen Kimball, Judy Landon, Nolan Leary, Meredith Leeds, Casey MacGregor, Robert Malcolm, Charles Mauu, Edith Mills, Rhea Mitchell, Joe Molina, Brad Morrow, Forbes Murray, John Mylong, Kerry O'Day, Anne O'Neal, Susan Odin, Rusty Parent, Nino Pipitone, Peter Price, Charles Regan, Al Rhein, Buddy Roosevelt, Carl Sepulveda, Carl Sklover, Dorothy Skyeagle, Sandra Spence, Shooting Star, Larry Steers, Riley Sunrise, William Tannen, Tony Taylor, Jack Trent, Ellinor Vanderveer, Jackee Waldron, Alice Wallace, John War Eagle, Bunny Waters, Frank Wilcox, Billy Wilkerson, Marjorie Wood, Chief Yowlachie
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Overview
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Director: George Sidney
While no comparison available, Twilight Time Blu-ray is OOP and reviewers say the transfer is likely the same
Director: George Sidney
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Directors: Vincente Minnelli & Lemuel Ayers & Roy Del Ruth & George Sidney & Robert Lewis
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 Music on Blu-ray
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Shout Factory Blu-ray
Shout's BD has both cuts of the film in addition to the 3.0 stereo and 2.0 mono mixes making it the first time the full theatrical cut is available with the 3.0 mix. The new commentary is good. The 3.0 stereo sounds wonderful and the mono sounds solid.
That's where the positives end. This is the same terrible Universal DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc with a terrible encode making both versions share the disc separately taking up more space. This master was already poor for DVD and is nearly unwatchable here on the Shout disc. It looks virtually identical to the upscaled DVD most of the time with only a bit less noise due to it being 1080p. This is one of the most appalling cases of "DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc" you can possibly find. Absolutely shameful video presentation. This should have never been released this way. Sadly it's still ever so slightly better than the DVD and the only way you get the proper theatrical cut with lossless 3.0 stereo. This is still the best source we have for the film.
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.
Director: Sian Heder
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Apple TV 4K Blu-ray with Atmos
(Eagle Pictures is 5.1)
Director: Miloš Forman
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Warner Bros Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray: Huge improvement in colors and detail. The restoration was done by the Academy instead of WB MPI which explains that there’s no grain management or issues with colors. They also accessed the original credit optical and scanned that one instead of recreating them digitally
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray, according to Saentz, the 5.0 is a recreation of the original and subsequently 70mm mix from original elements.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray replacement disc for fixed audio (there were some dialogues missing)
While the video on the replacement disc is exactly the same as the original release, the Atmos with missing lines has been corrected as it was also corrected on the Criterion commentary. Criterion also included the 6-track which is almost identical to the PAL track; It’s 4.0 in a 5.1 container. This 6-track is slightly better than the PAL DVD track as the PAL has some flutter on some parts that Criterion doesn’t have.
The Atmos on the replacement is identical to the Imprint AUS Blu-ray track which also has all the lines. The compatibility track is also the same,
It is worth mentioning the Imprint only has the Atmos and no 6-track. The 5.1 surround is with LFE and split surrounds and it’s just a downmix of the Atmos. Ditto for the LPCM 2.0 on said Blu-ray.
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