The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Drama, Family • 2h 8m
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea, Elsa Janssen, Ludwig Stössel, Virginia Gilmore, Bill Dickey, Ernie Adams, Pierre Watkin, Harry Harvey, Bob Meusel, Mark Koenig, Bill Stern, Addison Richards, Hardie Albright, Edward Fielding, George Lessey, Edgar Barrier, Douglas Croft, Gene Collins, David Holt, Veloz, Yolanda, Ed Agresti, Ernie Alexander, Hooper Atchley, Edwin August, Bettye Avery, Becky Bohanon, Lynton Brent, Roy Brent, Betty Brewer, Don Brodie, Charles Cane, Jack Carr, Burr Caruth, Eddy Chandler, Lane Chandler, Bill Chaney, Jack Chapin, Janet Chapman, Spencer Charters, Porter Chase, Dane Clark, Heinie Conklin, Hal Cooke, Clancy Cooper, John Daheim, Eva Dennison, Lester Dorr, Peter Du Rey, Lorna Dunn, Jim Farley, Frank Faylen, Walter Fenner, Pat Flaherty, Rosina Galli, Vaughan Glaser, Mary Gordon, Herschel Graham, George Guhl, Eddie Hall, Harry Hayden, Vinton Hayworth, Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian, John Hiestand, Earle Hodgins, Fay Holderness, John Ince, Mitchell Ingraham, Charles Irwin, Jack Irwin, Sheldon Jett, Payne B. Johnson, John Kellogg, Colin Kenny, Donald Kerr, Richard Kipling, Pat Lane, Larry Lawson, Rex Lease, Theodore Lorch, Frank Lyman, Wilbur Mack, Dave Manley, Maurice Marks, Francisco Marán, John C. McCallum, Ralph McCullough, George McDonald, Matt McHugh, James McNamara, Wilmuth Merkyl, Howard M. Mitchell, Irving Mitchell, Pat Moriarity, Tom Neal, Ray Noble, Patsy O'Byrne, George Offerman, Jr., John B. Old, Garry Owen, Sarah Padden, Emory Parnell, Edward Peil Sr., Tom Quinn, Cyril Ring, Henry Roquemore, Art Rowlands, William Roy, Rip Russell, Francis Sayles, Anita Sharp-Bolster, C. Montague Shaw, Jack Shea, John Sheehan, Jack Stewart, Brick Sullivan, Ben Taggart, Walter Tetley, Jimmy Valentine, Gohr Van Vleck, Dorothy Vaughan, Dorothy Vernon, Malcolm Waite, James Westerfield, Guy Wilkerson, Max Willenz, Buddy Williams, Charles Williams, Robert Winkler, Allen Wood, Mike Donovan, Dick Gordon, Charles Flynn, Jack Gardner, Anthony Walters
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About the film
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Year of Induction: 2024
Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
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.
Director: Sidney Lumet
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1.85:1: Kino Lorber 4K / Capelight 4K
1.66:1: Criterion 4K but low pass filtered
Comparison between the 4Ks, Criterion on the AR choice
Other discs have unnecessary filtering and sound worse, the difference isn't substantial but audible
Director: Dennis Hopper
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Flicker Alley 4K confirmed for 2027 https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24404584&postcount=1
MoC audio is better https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=225532&page=3
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Universal release without the filtering.
DTS:X mix on Universal 4K Blu-ray most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD and Universal 4K Blu-ray has additional features not found on the Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
WB 4K
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An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.
Director: Sam Wood
Probably Kino Lorber Blu-ray
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While no comparison is available, this is indeed a new 4K restoration. However it has its problem like not scanned from best surviving prints due to some issues, or technicolor out of alignment but seems to be still better than older releases
Director: Sam Wood
More Drama 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: Roman Polanski
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UK 4K teased by 88 Films https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=24252379
Carlotta France 4K Blu-ray > Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray (better encode on Carlotta without any low-pass filtering, more extras and English subtitles on Vinegar Syndrome)
Director: John Woo
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Arrow has a different grade and a better encode than the Shout! Factory, though the difference in either is not major. Imprint release, which leaves Shout! Factory's master and subtitles as is, is encoded by FiM. https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24473097&postcount=56
Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD
Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)
Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray (similar to Criterion LaserDisc, but less distorted)
Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD
Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)
Arrow used the alternate mix, but with extra filtering and lowered dynamic range. The alternate mix has much better fidelity.
Imprint presumably used the Shout! Factory original mix and left it as is, though no official confirmation.
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
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