Silver River (1948)
Western, Romance, Drama • 1h 50m
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell, Bruce Bennett, Tom D'Andrea, Barton MacLane, Monte Blue, Jonathan Hale, Al Bridge, Arthur Space, Ben Corbett, Tex Driscoll, Tex Cooper, Joseph Crehan, Marjorie Bennett, George Chandler, Victor Adamson, Richard Alexander, Jimmy Ames, Robert J. Anderson, Lois Austin, William Bailey, Al Bain, Art Baker, Trevor Bardette, George Barrows, George Bell, Joseph E. Bernard, Chris Willow Bird, Rudy Bowman, Chet Brandenburg, Bob Burns, Paul E. Burns, Clark Burroughs, Nora Bush, Jess Cavin, Dorothy Christy, Tom Coleman, Victor Cox, Russell Custer, Rube Dalroy, Jack Davis, James Dime, Lester Dorr, Dan Dowling, Dick Elliott, Nestor Eristoff, Franklyn Farnum, Pat Flaherty, Ross Ford, Slim Gaut, Jack Gordon, William Gould, Bobby Hale, Grayce Hampton, Aleth Hansen, Carl Harbaugh, James Harrison, Harry Hayden, Russell Hicks, Stuart Holmes, Jimmie Horan, Charles Horvath, Jerry Jerome, Norman Jolley, Fred Kelsey, Jack Kenny, Mike Lally, Harry Lamont, Clarence M. Landry, Perk Lazelle, Jack Low, Cactus Mack, Frank McCarroll, Philo McCullough, Robert Milasch, Kansas Moehring, Jack Montgomery, Ray Montgomery, Harry Hays Morgan, Clarence Muse, Anton Northpole, Bud Osborne, Eddie Parker, Jack Perry, Joe Phillips, Bob Reeves, Otto Reichow, Ervin Richardson, Gail Robinson, John Roy, Sam Savitsky, Carl Sepulveda, Allen D. Sewall, George Sherwood, Tom Smith, Cap Somers, Ray Spiker, Robert R. Stephenson, Harry Strang, Brick Sullivan, Jack Tornek, Arthur Tovey, Gladys Turney, Dorothy Vernon, Sailor Vincent, Glen Walters, Dan White, Leo White, Norman Willis, Ian Wolfe, Britt Wood, Harry Woods
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About the film
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
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4K restoration from original technicolor negatives
Director: Raoul Walsh
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Raoul Walsh
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New restoration by MoMA and Film Foundation https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/11558 no release yet
Director: Raoul Walsh
Director: Raoul Walsh
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Vincent Sherman
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: George Pal
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Compton Bennett
4K restoration from original technicolor negatives
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
More Western on Blu-ray
Director: Anthony Mann
Kino Lorber Blu-ray reissue (4K restoration)
Massive picture upgrade as the 4K restoration addresses the massive color fringing that has plagued all previous dated masters. Oddly the titles are a different color now.
4K restoration is a gigantic and essential picture upgrade but only available on the Kino Blu-ray reissue. No UHD has been made or announced by anyone.
Director: Anthony Mann
The film only exists in MGM letterbox masters and the HD version upgrades the DVD presentation. Sadly the film still needs a modern restoration and a better audio source. The master holds up very well today regardless and has a very natural appearance. The Eureka BD is far superior to the Kino Lorber in encode and extras making it easily the only version to consider.
Director: Anthony Mann
Criterion 4K Blu-ray, Universal 2008 DVD
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2008 Universal DVD mono
The mono on the Criterion is severely filtered resulting in it sounding incredibly muffled. It is nearly as filtered as the 2003 original Universal DVD which had extreme filtering and sounds horribly thin. The 2008 DVD remaster and original LaserDisc analog mastering are mostly left alone. The original LD master is from a worn element but otherwise sounds very natural. The 2008 DVD is the highest quality version we have without the heavy filtering and the defects of the LD master. It isn't perfect but easily the best of the main four sources by a dramatic margin.
The existing 4K SDR restoration looks excellent, but the Criterion extras are limited and disappointing. The classic Stewart interview commentary from the LD is ported over but given a new mastering. Compared to past releases it has been very slightly noise reduced.
Director: James Neilson
The Universal HD master is appalling. This is a large format early Technirama film that has been hit with a massive amount of DNR resulting in a smeary appearance throughout with little detail. On one hand it is still a better scan than the old DVD with better color and element issues addressed. On the other it is barely above the DVD upscaled in other moments. The mono audio has been horribly processed to sound thin, canned and lacking in overall fidelity. The DVD clearly uses the same source element for picture and sound and here the sound is left alone. It sounds miles better. The Kino Lorber Blu-ray is technically the best US release but this master has been released in Europe where it likely has better encoding. The Kino Lorber Blu-ray adds a basic commentary. This film needs a proper transfer and audio presentation desperately. The HD master is so lackluster that the DVD despite its age is arguably preferable in visuals and certainly far superior in audio.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Director: George Stevens
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Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has unusually strong encode but only a minimal upgrade over the excellent Eureka Blu-ray
Director: Samuel Fuller
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Criterion Blu-Ray
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