The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
Crime, Drama • 1h 43m
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Hugh Sanders, Selena Royle, Jacqueline deWit, Morris Ankrum, Edith Evanson, Richard Egan, Bob Alden, Bonnie Bannon, George Baxter, Paul Bradley, Kathryn Card, Tristram Coffin, Herschel Daugherty, Diane DeLaire, Forrest Dickson, Jay Eaton, Sam Fisher, Bess Flowers, Don Forbes, George Ford, Jack Gargan, Ned Glass, William E. Green, Tom Greenway, Dabbs Greer, Robert Haines, Weldon Heyburn, Charles Jordan, Eddie Kane, Fred Kelsey, Lyle Latell, David Leonard, Leon Lontoc, Herbert Lytton, Warren Mace, Rory Mallinson, Eddie Marr, Strother Martin, Thomas Martin, John Maxwell, Paul McGuire, Lee Miller, Jimmy Moss, Hugh Murray, George Nardelli, William H. O'Brien, Sara Perry, Paul Power, Waclaw Rekwart, Keith Richards, Ann Robinson, Ric Roman, Ralph Sanford, Jamesson Shade, Charles Sherlock, Clarence Straight, Brick Sullivan, Blanche Taylor, Herb Vigran, Duke Watson, Paul Weber, Crane Whitley
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 11 months ago
Overview
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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 Crime on Blu-ray
Director: Joel Coen
Director's Cut: Disappointing UK StudioCanal/US Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: LaserDisc or 2001 UK Universal DVD
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=21782879#post21782879 - comparison. StudioCanal is a massive improvement to the Criterion but still flawed in some areas (chroma noise)
Director: Iain Softley
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Both 88 Films and Germany Capelight are superior to the Shout! Factory in HDR10 but their FEL layer may even things out. Objectively, the Capelight looks best as they avoided the chroma blocking that’s visible in 88’s disc but they in turn included an Atmos mix. I have the Shout! Factory, love how it looks and the 4K transfer is spectacular. https://slow.pics/c/vPmFQSAH
Shout! Factory has the exclusive The Beauty of the Baud and the You Can't Stop Us All featurettes.
Director: John Woo
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
review: Disk Kino
Both have better encoding than Disk Kino, some shots are better on Shout! Factory, others on Arrow
Shout Factory still has the best video while Arrow did a questionable regrade. Arrow definitely has less grain in most shots, has a worse encode and is cm v2.9 compared to Shout’s cm v4.0.
Shout! Factory/Arrow 4K Blu-ray has the original mono
Director: Lloyd Bacon
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Director: Roman Polanski
Director: Alan Clarke
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
The 88 Films 4K Blu-ray is disappointing. Indicator Blu-ray > 88 Films Blu-ray. From nicolas:
Fine master, solid HDR but very poorly encoded with strong blocking artifacts in normal areas and clipped highlights that bring Criterion’s Walkabout to mind. Their Blu-ray is slightly better overall but then again still not as good as FiM’s encode for Indicator.
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