The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Drama, War, Romance • 2h 6m
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson, C. Aubrey Smith, May Whitty, Gladys Cooper, Peter Lawford, John Warburton, Jill Esmond, Brenda Forbes, Norma Varden, Harry Allen, Wilson Benge, Matthew Boulton, Edmund Breon, Clifford Brooke, Eldon Burkett, Elton Burkett, Bobby Callahan, Charles Coleman, Clyde Cook, Alec Craig, Ann Curzon, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Guy D'Ennery, George Davis, Kay Deslys, Vernon Downing, Tom Drake, Isobel Elsom, Herbert Evans, Franklyn Farnum, Emily Fitzroy, Bunny Gordon, Vera Graaff, Douglas Grant, Gary Gray, Arthur Gould-Porter, Ethel Griffies, Gerald Hamer, Lumsden Hare, Joy Harington, Keith Hitchcock, Stuart Holmes, Charles Irwin, George Kirby, Molly Lamont, Nelson Leigh, Adolf E. Licho, Doris Lloyd, June Lockhart, Miles Mander, Emily Massey, Lal Chand Mehra, James Menzies, Leo Mostovoy, Gavin Muir, Norbert Müller, Steven Muller, Ottola Nesmith, J. Pat O'Malley, Jean Prescott, John Rogers, Mabel Row, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Arthur Shields, Elizabeth Taylor, Larry Wheat, Ian Wolfe
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 28 days ago
Overview
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
Director: Clarence Brown
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
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: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Joel Coen
Director's Cut: Disappointing UK StudioCanal/US Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: LaserDisc or 2001 UK Universal DVD
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=21782879#post21782879 - comparison. StudioCanal is a massive improvement to the Criterion but still flawed in some areas (chroma noise)
Director: Liliana Cavani
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Iain Softley
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Both 88 Films and Germany Capelight are superior to the Shout! Factory in HDR10 but their FEL layer may even things out. Objectively, the Capelight looks best as they avoided the chroma blocking that’s visible in 88’s disc but they in turn included an Atmos mix. I have the Shout! Factory, love how it looks and the 4K transfer is spectacular. https://slow.pics/c/vPmFQSAH
Shout! Factory has the exclusive The Beauty of the Baud and the You Can't Stop Us All featurettes.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Bruce Robinson
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has stronger encode than Criterion
Director: Olivier Assayas
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
Director: John Woo
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
review: Disk Kino
Both have better encoding than Disk Kino, some shots are better on Shout! Factory, others on Arrow
Shout Factory still has the best video while Arrow did a questionable regrade. Arrow definitely has less grain in most shots, has a worse encode and is cm v2.9 compared to Shout’s cm v4.0.
Shout! Factory/Arrow 4K Blu-ray has the original mono
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