They Won't Believe Me (1947)
Drama, Romance • 1h 35m
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson, Tom Powers, George Tyne, Don Beddoe, Frank Ferguson, Harry Harvey, Byron Foulger, Lillian Bronson, Janet Shaw, Lovyss Bradley, John Alban, Jean Andren, Polly Bailey, Brooks Benedict, Nina Borget, Chet Brandenburg, Ivan Browning, Steve Carruthers, Anthony Caruso, James Conaty, Ellen Corby, Anne Cornwall, Harry D'Arcy, Helen Dickson, Dot Farley, Franklyn Farnum, Lee Frederick, Jack Gargan, William Gillespie, Sol Gorss, Wilton Graff, Fred Graham, Robert Haines, Stuart Hall, Herbert Heywood, Carl Kent, Perc Launders, Bert LeBaron, Bertha Ledbetter, Paul Maxey, Mathew McCue, Matt McHugh, George Morrell, William J. O'Brien, Netta Packer, Milton Parsons, Bob Pepper, Frank Pharr, Lee Phelps, Irving Pichel, Catherine Price, Jack Rice, Suzanne Ridgway, Albin Robeling, Hector V. Sarno, George Sherwood, Bert Stevens, Harry Strang, Denny Sullivan, Irene Tedrow, Bob Thom, Elena Warren, Martin Wilkins, Bud Wolfe, Buck Woods
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 11 months ago
Overview
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Director: Irving Pichel
Kino Lorber Barbara Stanwyck Collection Blu-ray
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
Director: Lloyd Bacon
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Martin Rosen
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray poor compression, otherwise Second Sight has best Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
> BFI 4K Blu-ray. caps Criterion presents the master as originally graded in SDR whereas FiM added HDR / Dolby Vision for the BFI.
Criterion 4K Blu-ray's audio mix has more detail than BFI’s and same applies to the subtitles, covering both English and France spoken word
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
BD LPCM 5.1
The DTS-HD on the UHD has been dynamically compressed, has had its center channel boosted, and surrounds lowered (typical modern nearfield mix for soundbars). Very different from the BD and DVD tracks. The BD LPCM is basically just a lossless version of the DTS and AC3 from the original DVD (the AC3 actually being the superior mix on that particular release).
Directors: Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell
Imprint 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · filmalert101.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
FiM encode and none of the low-pass filtering present on the Criterion 4K, resulting in more detail and better handling of highlights on Imprint
Review, comparisons
All HD and 4K sources use the same 2009 restoration. Criterion's master (also used by Imprint) is a bit more rolled off, though the difference is minor.
Director: Tony Scott
The 70mm 6-track mix has a higher bitrate on the Paramount 1998 DVD, but is more limited than on the THX LaserDisc The Paramount 1998 DVD also has open matte versions in fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 instead of the theatrical aspect ratio of 2.39:1, but the 2.00:1 widescreen presentation is non-anamorphic. The THX LaserDisc is available in both fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 variants.
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