The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
Comedy • 1h 52m
Director: William Keighley
Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis, Jimmy Durante, Billie Burke, Reginald Gardiner, Elisabeth Fraser, Grant Mitchell, George Barbier, Mary Wickes, Russell Arms, Ruth Vivian, Edwin Stanley, Betty Roadman, Charles Drake, Nanette Vallon, John Ridgely, Ernie Adams, Leah Baird, Leslie Brooks, Georgia Carroll, Spencer Chan, Eddy Chandler, Dudley Dickerson, Peggy Diggins, Roland Drew, Bess Flowers, Sol Gorss, Herbert Gunn, Creighton Hale, Sam Hayes, Fred Kelsey, Hank Mann, Frank Mayo, Patrick McVey, Frank Moran, Jack Mower, Ralph Peters, Cliff Saum, Alix Talton, Kam Tong, Billy Wayne, Lottie Williams, Florence Wix, Beal Wong
Best English-friendly & video release
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Updated 4 months ago
About the film
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K scan
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
2008 WB Blu-ray (from a 2003 transfer)
(Still not great)
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Vincent Sherman
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: George Pal
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
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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.
Director: Buster Keaton
Kino Lorber new Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. Blu-ray?
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
MoC 4K Blu-ray late 2027
Lobster Films (Kino Lorber?) > Cohen/Eureka https://slow.pics/c/3KWXoMyR The new Kino Lorber's Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. might be using the same restoration as Lobster Films
Director: Billy Wilder
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
(transfer of the 1989 MGM LaserDisc, without problems plaguing Kino Lorber's release)
Arrow UHD is an update of the original 4K scan done for their BD. It is also visually far superior to the Kino version and adds Dolby Vision HDR. The Arrow UHD uses a new LD mono capture and has none of the issues or processing found in the Kino UHD which also used an LD mono capture and somehow mucked it up. Short of a brand new scan, the Arrow UHD is as good as it possibly can be.
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