Madame Racketeer (1932)
Comedy • 1h 12m
Directors: Alexander Hall & Harry Wagstaff Gribble
Cast: Alison Skipworth, Richard Bennett, George Raft, John Breeden, Evalyn Knapp, Gertrude Messinger, Robert McWade, J. Farrell MacDonald, Oscar Apfel, Jessie Arnold, Irving Bacon, George Barbier, Frank Beal, Bonita, Ed Brady, Rita Carlyle, Anna Chandler, Winter Hall, Arthur Raymond Hill, Robert Homans, Arthur Hoyt, William Humphrey, Alfred P. James, Edgar Lewis, Kate Morgan, Nellie V. Nichols, Edward Peil Sr., Scott Seaton, Cora Shumway, Oscar Smith, Walter Walker, Eleanor Wesselhoeft
No official release
No official edition exists. Anything circulating comes from unofficial sources, so there is no release this site can recommend.
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International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
Director: Leo McCarey
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
> Germany Wicked Vision Blu-ray > US Flicker Alley Blu-ray see DVDBeaver caps
Director: John Ford
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Warner Archive Blu-ray is 4K restoration from nitrate projection elements
Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ
Director: Frank Capra
Director: William Dieterle
Director: David Butler
Video format: Only Unofficial Sources
Sources: archive.org (opens in a new tab)
The DVD isn't an official one, and according to a user review on Amazon:
This DVD comes from Archive.org, where the movie can be viewed for free. The original source, comes from the Fox Movie Channel
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More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Steve De Jarnatt
2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray
UK Transmission 4K Blu-ray in January 2027
Either the 2015 Kino Lorber Blu-ray or the Arrow Blu-ray
The 2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray is botched.
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.
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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