Father of the Bride (1950)
Comedy, Romance, Drama • 1h 32m
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Leo G. Carroll, Moroni Olsen, Melville Cooper, Taylor Holmes, Paul Harvey, Frank Orth, Russ Tamblyn, Tom Irish, Marietta Canty, Richard Alexander, Don Anderson, William Bailey, Fay Baker, Lucile Barnes, Oliver Blake, Lillian Bronson, Joe Brown Jr., Frank Cady, Aileen Carlyle, Carleton Carpenter, Gene Coogan, Paul Cristo, Oliver Cross, Lucille Curtis, Roy Damron, Boyd Davis, Chris Drake, Jacqueline Duval, Ella Ethridge, Estelle Etterre, Betty Farrington, Janey Fay, Charles Ferguson, Bess Flowers, Edward Gargan, Mickey Golden, Herschel Graham, William E. Greene, William Haade, Sherry Hall, Bradford Hatton, Jim Hayward, Thomas Browne Henry, Stuart Holmes, Art Howard, Frank Hyers, Walter Kelley, Ann Kunde, Peggy Leon, Beverly Luff, Billy Mahan, Thomas Martin, Paul Maxey, Mickey McCardle, Philo McCullough, Russell Meeker, Harold Miller, Patricia Miller, Roger Moore, Sol Murgi, Forbes Murray, William H. O'Brien, Gil Perkins, Ralph Peters, Lee Phelps, Dorothy Phillips, William Phillips, Frank Richards, Dewey Robinson, Fred Santley, Cosmo Sardo, Scott Seaton, Erin Selwyn, Charles Smith, Mary Jane Smith, Douglas Spencer, Harry Stanton, Larry Steers, Brick Sullivan, Floyd Taylor, Peter M. Thompson, Nancy Valentine, Wendy Waldron, Johnny Walsh, Willard Waterman, Dick Wessel, Jeff York
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About the film
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
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- Father of the Bride
Director: Vincente Minnelli
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Warner Archive, 2k + 4k scans
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?
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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