Gentleman Jim (1942)
Drama, Comedy • 1h 44m
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, John Loder, William Frawley, Minor Watson, Ward Bond, Madeleine Lebeau, Monte Blue, Pat Flaherty, Arthur Shields, Dorothy Vaughan, Hooper Atchley, Milton Kibbee, Richard Kipling, Charles Lang, Edwin August, Eric Mayne, Charles Meakin, Count Stefenelli, Clara Blandick, Winifred Harris, Wade Boteler, Walter Byron, Hal Craig, Robert Fiske, Georgia Caine, Mary Gordon, Johnny Calkins, Lon McCallister, Davison Clark, Wallis Clark, Joseph Crehan, Freddie Steele, Dick Wessel, Harry Crocker, Wade Crosby, William B. Davidson, William 'Wee Willie' Davis, Jean Del Val, Joe Devlin, Dudley Dickerson, Peggy Diggins, Joan Winfield, Lester Dorr, Lew Harvey, Victor Zimmerman, James Flavin, Art Foster, Jack Gardner, Frank Hagney, Creighton Hale, Mathew McCue, Bert Hanlon, Carl Harbaugh, Jack Herrick, Herbert Heywood, Si Jenks, Tor Johnson, Fred Kelsey, Joe King, Ed Lewis, George Lloyd, Charles Marsh, John Maxwell, Frank Mayo, Mike Mazurki, Pat McKee, Wilmuth Merkyl, Leo White, Jack Wise, Frank Moran, Pat Moriarity, Wedgwood Nowell, Pat O'Malley, Lee Phelps, Emory Parnell, Jack Roper, Syd Saylor, Edwin Stanley, Sammy Stein, Dan Tobey, Charlotte Treadway, Emmett Vogan, Charles C. Wilson
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About the film
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
- Alternative Titles
- Gentleman Jim
4K restoration from original technicolor negatives
Director: Raoul Walsh
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Raoul Walsh
Sources: moma.org (opens in a new tab)
New restoration by MoMA and Film Foundation https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/11558 no release yet
Director: Raoul Walsh
Director: Raoul Walsh
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 Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Robert Altman
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Cinematrographe's HDR grading is overcooked, which is a known VinSyn tendency. Additionally, their booklet mis-credits the encode to FiM.
YMMV, but for some, the included BD encoded by Marcus Johnson—ironically may make for a more pleasing experience.
Director: Roman Polanski
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
UK 4K teased by 88 Films https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=24252379
Carlotta France 4K Blu-ray > Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray (better encode on Carlotta without any low-pass filtering, more extras and English subtitles on Vinegar Syndrome)
Director: John Woo
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Arrow has a different grade and a better encode than the Shout! Factory, though the difference in either is not major. Imprint release, which leaves Shout! Factory's master and subtitles as is, is encoded by FiM. https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24473097&postcount=56
Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD
Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)
Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray (similar to Criterion LaserDisc, but less distorted)
Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD
Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)
Arrow used the alternate mix, but with extra filtering and lowered dynamic range. The alternate mix has much better fidelity.
Imprint presumably used the Shout! Factory original mix and left it as is, though no official confirmation.
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
Director: Sidney Lumet
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
The 4K discs in both Criterion and Imprint sets are FiM encodes, but low-passed, Imprint minimally less so. Unfortunately, unlike with The Killing, Kino does not hold up at all, the grain is much rougher and the compression visibly struggles making for a much less pleasant watch, even if select stills look better.
All discs use the same source transfer. Criterion cleaned up some hums and hiss, but lost a little bit of high-end detail. Unlike The Killing, the difference's relatively mino.
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Cinematographe is an FiM encode
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