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.
About the film
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?
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Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper
Director: Leo McCarey
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UK MoC Blu-ray > 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: 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
Director: Robert Altman
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Cinematrographe's HDR grading is overcooked, which is a known VinSyn tendency. Additionally, their booklet mis-credits the encode to FiM.
YMMV, but for some, the included BD encoded by Marcus Johnson—ironically may make for a more pleasing experience.
Director: Vincent Sherman
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
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Elaine May
Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray > MoC > Olive Films. From nicolas:
The master is good but it’s not that big an upgrade from the Olive Films disc and Vinegar Syndrome’ encode has some blocky highlights. A shame that they didn’t hire David Mackenzie here.
Cinématographe has unnecessary noise gating not present on the previous releases.
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