Mr. Lucky (1943)
Comedy, Romance, Crime • 1h 40m
Director: H. C. Potter
Cast: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Alan Carney, Henry Stephenson, Paul Stewart, Kay Johnson, Erford Gage, Walter Kingsford, Florence Bates, Sam Ash, Edwin August, Walter Bacon, John Bleifer, Don Brodie, George Calliga, Charles Cane, Rita Corday, Joseph Crehan, Kernan Cripps, Hal K. Dawson, Jack Deery, Helen Dickson, Edward Fielding, Budd Fine, Sam Finn, Ray Flynn, Mary Forbes, J. C. Fowler, Jack Gargan, Karen X. Gaylord, Rudy Germane, Dick Gordon, Chuck Hamilton, Sam Harris, Ariel Heath, Frank Henry, Lew Hicks, Chet Huntley, Lloyd Ingraham, J.M. Kerrigan, Bert LeBaron, Max Linder, Pat McKee, Harold Miller, Frank Mills, Daphne Moore, Bert Moorhouse, Edmund Mortimer, Al Murphy, Emory Parnell, Hilda Plowright, Paul Power, Fred Rapport, Cyril Ring, Al Rhein, Dick Rush, Mabel Smaney, Vladimir Sokoloff, Robert Strange, Amzie Strickland, Mary Stuart, Ellinor Vanderveer, Juan Varro, Isabel Withers, Arthur Yeoman
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 11 months ago
Overview
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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 Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Bruce Robinson
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has stronger encode than Criterion
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.
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
Director: Preston Sturges
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Director: Tommy O'Haver
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Eureka UK are considering doing a 4K and actively exploring the possibility: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24363810&postcount=264
Wonderful underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion, but NexSpec encode has clipped highlights with the occasional blockiness. The Criterion Blu-Ray, sourced from their 4K remaster, ironically makes for a more consistent and overall pleasing experience.
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