The Phantom President (1932)
Comedy, Music • 1h 18m
Overview
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert, Jimmy Durante, George Barbier, Sidney Toler, Louise Mackintosh, Jameson Thomas, Julius McVicker, Hooper Atchley, Ed Brady, June Gittelson, Ben Hall, Paul Hurst, Edward LeSaint, Charles Middleton, Frank Mills, Edmund Mortimer, Alan Mowbray, Tom Ricketts, Frank Sheridan, Jerry Tucker
Director: Alfred E. Green
Director: Alfred E. Green
Directors: Louis J. Gasnier & Max Marcin
Directors: Louis J. Gasnier & Max Marcin
Director: Frank Tuttle
Director: Frank Tuttle
Director: Clarence Brown
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Clarence Brown
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: John Ford
Warner Archive Blu-ray new restoration by Library of Congress and the Film Foundation
Director: John Ford
Warner Archive Blu-ray new restoration by Library of Congress and the Film Foundation
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Mark Sandrich
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Mark Sandrich
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Norman Taurog
Director: Norman Taurog
Director: Norman Taurog
Director: Norman Taurog
Director: Norman Taurog
Director: Norman Taurog
Director: Norman Taurog
Director: Norman Taurog
Director: Norman Taurog
Director: Norman Taurog
Directors: Norman Taurog & Busby Berkeley
Directors: Norman Taurog & Busby Berkeley
Directors: Ernst Lubitsch & Norman Z. McLeod & H. Bruce Humberstone & Stephen Roberts & William A. Seiter & Norman Taurog & James Cruze & Lothar Mendes
Kino Lorber Blu-ray, full uncut version
Directors: Ernst Lubitsch & Norman Z. McLeod & H. Bruce Humberstone & Stephen Roberts & William A. Seiter & Norman Taurog & James Cruze & Lothar Mendes
Kino Lorber Blu-ray, full uncut version
Director: Norman Taurog
Director: Norman Taurog
Director: Vincent Ward
Director: Vincent Ward
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Director: Ridley Scott
UK Universal 4K Blu-ray is missing Kino Lorber extras
Director: Ridley Scott
UK Universal 4K Blu-ray is missing Kino Lorber extras
Directors: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Directors: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Director: Brian De Palma
Director: Brian De Palma
Director: John Waters
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encoding see caps but still a huge improvement over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray Both the 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are improvements over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Theatrical cut is on the 4K disc, but the restored Director's Cut is only on the Blu-Ray disc. Director's Cut utilizes the same 4K transfer as the theatrical cut for 86 minutes, but the 6 minutes of restored footage could only be salvaged from a standard definition source and are thus needed to be upscaled.
Director: John Waters
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encoding see caps but still a huge improvement over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray Both the 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are improvements over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Theatrical cut is on the 4K disc, but the restored Director's Cut is only on the Blu-Ray disc. Director's Cut utilizes the same 4K transfer as the theatrical cut for 86 minutes, but the 6 minutes of restored footage could only be salvaged from a standard definition source and are thus needed to be upscaled.
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Director: Wesley Ruggles
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