Mystery Street (1950)
Crime, Thriller • 1h 33m
Overview
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Edmon Ryan, Betsy Blair, Wally Maher, Ralph Dumke, Willard Waterman, Walter Burke, Don Shelton, Elsie Baker, George Brand, Ralph Brooks, Douglas Carter, Mack Chandler, Noble 'Kid' Chissell, George Cooper, John Crawford, Lucille Curtis, Bert Davidson, King Donovan, Mike Donovan, Robert Foulk, Jim Frasher, Ned Glass, Eula Guy, Sherry Hall, Bradford Hatton, Jim Hayward, Perry Ivins, William F. Leicester, Arthur M. Loew Jr., Louise Lorimer, John Maxwell, May McAvoy, David McMahon, Ernesto Molinari, Ralph Montgomery, Melvin H. Moore, Virginia Mullen, Allen O'Locklin, Frank Overton, Juanita Quigley, Suzanne Ridgway, John Roy, Maurice Samuels, Fred Santley, Phil Schumacher, Jack Shea, Fred Sherman, George Sherwood, Mary Jane Smith, Robert Strong, Peter M. Thompson, Charles Wagenheim, Napoleon Whiting
Director: John Sturges
Director: John Sturges
Director: John Sturges
Arrow 4K Blu-ray, comparison: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=22712768&postcount=297
Director: John Sturges
Arrow 4K Blu-ray, comparison: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=22712768&postcount=297
Director: John Sturges
Director: John Sturges
Director: John Sturges
Director: John Sturges
Director: John Sturges
Director: John Sturges
Director: John Sturges
Director: John Sturges
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is disappointing (review)
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is disappointing (review)
Director: John Ford
The 4K Blu-ray is muffled, even compared to already poor WB Blu-ray
> The most noise reduction of any release, leaving hardly anything above 8 kHz. Bass content has also been removed globally.
Even putting resolution aside, the Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray has the best video, the old Blu-ray master and earlier DVD both had massive issues with colour.
That said, picture on the 4K Blu-ray isn't perfect, with strange posterized magenta glints and some instances of DNR: https://bsky.app/profile/dagscott.bsky.social/post/3leahavqi7k2l
Director: John Ford
The 4K Blu-ray is muffled, even compared to already poor WB Blu-ray
> The most noise reduction of any release, leaving hardly anything above 8 kHz. Bass content has also been removed globally.
Even putting resolution aside, the Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray has the best video, the old Blu-ray master and earlier DVD both had massive issues with colour.
That said, picture on the 4K Blu-ray isn't perfect, with strange posterized magenta glints and some instances of DNR: https://bsky.app/profile/dagscott.bsky.social/post/3leahavqi7k2l
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray from 12K scan on Aug 25th
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray from 12K scan on Aug 25th
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Director: Abel Ferrara
Director: Abel Ferrara
Director: Anthony Mann
Director: Anthony Mann
Director: Michael Cimino
Director: Michael Cimino
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Director: John Ford
The audio on the Warner Archive Blu-ray is appalling. It starts to cutoff at around 6kHz to have nothing above 10kHz. The LaserDisc is much more full-frequency.
Director: John Ford
The audio on the Warner Archive Blu-ray is appalling. It starts to cutoff at around 6kHz to have nothing above 10kHz. The LaserDisc is much more full-frequency.
More Crime on Blu-ray
Director: Shane Meadows
2009 Optimum Blu-ray (despite being 1080/50i)
2026 Second Sight UK Blu-ray
2009 Optimum Blu-ray (despite being 1080/50i)
All extras are only on the DVD release. Optimum BD is barebones
Director: Shane Meadows
2009 Optimum Blu-ray (despite being 1080/50i)
2026 Second Sight UK Blu-ray
2009 Optimum Blu-ray (despite being 1080/50i)
All extras are only on the DVD release. Optimum BD is barebones
Director: Charles Band
Full Moon Features Blu-ray or 88 Films Blu-ray is better than 4K Blu-ray, which is poorly encoded
Director: Charles Band
Full Moon Features Blu-ray or 88 Films Blu-ray is better than 4K Blu-ray, which is poorly encoded
Director: Gordon Parks
Director: Gordon Parks
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Director: Michael Mann
Arrow 4K Blu-ray is encoded by FiM encode is better than Criterion, see caps https://slow.pics/c/Z2RRQAAT
Criterion 4K Blu-ray vs Blu-ray: caps colors are more different and nuanced than anticipated even in the SDR-converted caps and the usual gain in highlight detail is also apparent. Encode looks excellent except for the brightest areas as usual.
5.1/5.0 mix (essentially a 4-track mix in 5.1 and 5.0 containers respectively)-Arrow/Criterion 4K Blu-ray. Only imperceptible differences in bit-depth: 20 vs 24.
2.0 mix- Arrow 4K Blu-ray (original stereo)
Director: Michael Mann
Arrow 4K Blu-ray is encoded by FiM encode is better than Criterion, see caps https://slow.pics/c/Z2RRQAAT
Criterion 4K Blu-ray vs Blu-ray: caps colors are more different and nuanced than anticipated even in the SDR-converted caps and the usual gain in highlight detail is also apparent. Encode looks excellent except for the brightest areas as usual.
5.1/5.0 mix (essentially a 4-track mix in 5.1 and 5.0 containers respectively)-Arrow/Criterion 4K Blu-ray. Only imperceptible differences in bit-depth: 20 vs 24.
2.0 mix- Arrow 4K Blu-ray (original stereo)
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray > Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Kino Lorber Blu-ray, by encoding quality see caps
Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Image Entertainment LaserDisc
(Arrow ported the LD track) see spectrogram
Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray > Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Kino Lorber Blu-ray, by encoding quality see caps
Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Image Entertainment LaserDisc
(Arrow ported the LD track) see spectrogram
Director: Neil Jordan
Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps
Director: Neil Jordan
Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps
Director: Iain Softley
Capelight Germany 4K Blu-ray. 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 include an Atmos mix. I have the Shout! Factory, love how it looks and the 4K transfer is spectacular. https://slow.pics/c/vPmFQSAH
Director: Iain Softley
Capelight Germany 4K Blu-ray. 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 include an Atmos mix. I have the Shout! Factory, love how it looks and the 4K transfer is spectacular. https://slow.pics/c/vPmFQSAH
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