Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)
Romance, Music, Drama • 1h 30m
Director: Lowell Sherman
Cast: Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo, Paul Kelly, Blossom Seeley, Gregory Ratoff, Texas Guinan, Hugh O'Connell, Hobart Cavanaugh, Abe Lyman, Frances Williams, Eddie Foy Jr., George Mann, C. Henry Gordon, William Burress, Helen Jerome Eddy, Edith Allen, Franklyn Ardell, Lucille Ball, Ronnie Cosby, Susan Fleming, Arthur Franklin, Mary Gordon, Theresa Harris, Rodney Hildebrandt, Ethan Laidlaw, Charles Lane, Tom London, George Magrill, Sam McDaniel, Marceline Medcalf, Edmund Mortimer, Dennis O'Keefe, Wheeler Oakman, Donna Mae Roberts, Fred Santley, Ann Sothern, Billy Sullivan, Andrew Tombes, Bradley Ward, Walter Winchell
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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Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
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: Frank Capra
Director: William Dieterle
Director: David Butler
Video format: Only Unofficial Sources
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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
Director: Lowell Sherman
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Judging from other movies in the boxset, Indicator Blu-ray is likely to be minimally better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray see DVDBeaver
More Romance on Blu-ray
Directors: Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell
Imprint 4K Blu-ray
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FiM encode and none of the low-pass filtering present on the Criterion 4K, resulting in more detail and better handling of highlights on Imprint
Review, comparisons
All HD and 4K sources use the same 2009 restoration. Criterion's master (also used by Imprint) is a bit more rolled off, though the difference is minor.
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
Director: Roman Polanski
Kino Lorber disc has audio pitch errors
Director: Terrence Malick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Lovely underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion but encode is sadly low-pass filtered by Pixelogic, and even then, the encode is still less than ideal. Still easily obliterates any prior disc release, but certainly wouldn't hurt to have a UK or German label take a crack at this same master.
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