Nora Prentiss (1947)
Drama • 1h 51m
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda, Rosemary DeCamp, John Ridgely, Wanda Hendrix, Helen Brown, Rory Mallinson, Harry Shannon, James Flavin, Douglas Kennedy, Don McGuire, Clifton Young, John Alvin, Jerry Baulch, Brooks Benedict, Bill Best, Al Bridge, Herb Caen, Georgia Caine, Dean Cameron, Gertrude Carr, Eddy Chandler, John Compton, James Conaty, Clancy Cooper, Gino Corrado, Jack Daley, Ralph Dunn, Jack Ellis, Tom Ferrandini, Bess Flowers, Ross Ford, Joe Gilbert, Roy Gordon, Creighton Hale, Eddie Hart, Shep Houghton, Fred Johnson, Charles Jordan, Fred Kelsey, Perk Lazelle, King Lockwood, Wilbur Mack, George Magrill, Philo McCullough, Bill McWilliams, Charles Meakin, Harold Miller, Jack Mower, Mike Musura, John Newland, James Nickle, Alexander Pollard, Louis Quince, Ramon Ros, Seymore Saner, Adele St. Mauer, Bert Stevens, Lottie Williams, Tom Wilson, Jack Wise
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 11 months ago
Overview
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Director: Vincent Sherman
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 Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Olivier Assayas
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
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
2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray
Japan Studio Ghibli 4K Blu-ray announced for a November 25, 2026 release
Japanese audio: 2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray/US GKIDS Blu-ray
English dub (Disney): 1998 US Disney VHS has better sounding vocals despite altered music and sound effects, the US Disney LaserDisc has limited audio, and 2003 DVD is a fake 5.1 upmix
Releases from 2010 onward have the original music and sound effects, but distorted vocals
English dub (Streamline): 1996 Japan remastered LaserDisc, available in Ghibli Ga Ippai Collection boxset
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
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