I'm No Angel (1933)
Comedy, Romance • 1h 27m
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde, Kent Taylor, Gertrude Michael, Russell Hopton, Dorothy Peterson, William B. Davidson, Gertrude Howard, Libby Taylor, Walter Walker, Irving Pichel, Nat Pendleton, Hattie McDaniel, Nigel De Brulier, Ray Cooke, Larry Steers, Bobby Barber, Eddie Borden, George Bruggeman, Morrie Cohan, Monte Collins, Nell Craig, Mahlon Hamilton, Edward Hearn, Lew Kelly, Carl M. Leviness, Tom London, Robert McKenzie, Edmund Mortimer, Dennis O'Keefe, Jack Pennick, Lee Phelps, Ronald R. Rondell, Laura Treadwell, Duke York
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 10 months ago
Indicator Blu-ray minimally better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film10/blu-ray_review_158/mae_west_in_hollywood_1932-1943_blu-ray.htm
Overview
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
Director: Leo McCarey
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> Germany Wicked Vision Blu-ray > US Flicker Alley Blu-ray see DVDBeaver caps
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
Kino Lorber Blu-ray good scan but has significantly boosted contrast
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Kino Lorber Carole Lombard Collection I Blu-ray
Director: Alan Clarke
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
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The 88 Films 4K Blu-ray is disappointing. Indicator Blu-ray > 88 Films Blu-ray. From nicolas:
Fine master, solid HDR but very poorly encoded with strong blocking artifacts in normal areas and clipped highlights that bring Criterion’s Walkabout to mind. Their Blu-ray is slightly better overall but then again still not as good as FiM’s encode for Indicator.
Director: Vincent Sherman
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> Kino Lorber see DVDBeaver
Indicator is using a different restoration from earlier Kino Lorber Blu-ray and it has much better contrast and slightly better grain resolution
Director: John M. Stahl
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Indicator Blu-ray is encoded by FiM and likely better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray
Director: Fritz Lang
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Indicator Blu-ray is superior to Kino Lorber transfer see caps. 2K restoration
Director: Bertrand Blier
The older Studio Canal disc has incorrect pitch - 0.7 semitones lower than it should be. As their PAL DVD release was pitched correctly despite running at 25 FPS, it's likely they just took that master and slowed it down without accounting for that.
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