The Hucksters (1947)
Drama, Romance, Comedy • 1h 55m
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner, Keenan Wynn, Edward Arnold, Aubrey Mather, Richard Gaines, Frank Albertson, Douglas Fowley, Clinton Sundberg, Gloria Holden, Connie Gilchrist, Kathryn Card, Lillian Bronson, Vera Marshe, Ralph Bunker, Virginia Dale, Jimmy Conlin, John McIntire, Robert Emmett O'Connor, George O'Hanlon, Theodore von Eltz, Anne Nagel, Marie Windsor, Richard Abbott, Charles Abraham, John Albright, Sam Ash, Vangie Beilby, William Benedict, Nan Bennett, Hoffis Better, Frank Bingman, Henry Blair, Harriett Brest, Betty Callender, Harry Cheshire, Edwin Cooper, John Daheim, Bert Davidson, Eugene Baxtor Day, Drew Demorest, Phil Dunham, Madge Erwin, Nellie Farrell, Almeda Fowler, Dink Freeman, Rudy Germane, Mahlon Hamilton, John Hiestand, Fred Howard, Joseph Kearns, Eugene Lay, Frank Leigh, Cathy Lewis, Sydney Logan, Wilbur Mack, Eddie Marr, Vera Martin, David McKim, Sammy McKim, David Merritt, Jerry Miley, Byron Morgan, Charles Peck, Dianne Perrine, Lillian Randolph, Jean Ransome, Jack Rice, Gordon Richards, Joe Sawaya, Erin Selwyn, Violet Seton, Fred Sherman, Ransom M. Sherman, Robert Skelton, Agnes Steele, Florence Stephens, Cedric Stevens, Tom Stevenson, Mary Stuart, Joan Valerie, Barrett Whitelaw, Chief Yowlachie
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About the film
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Directors: Cedric Gibbons & Jack Conway
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration
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
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Sidney Lumet
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
More Drama on Blu-ray
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.
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
The 4K discs in both Criterion and Imprint sets are FiM encodes, but low-passed, Imprint minimally less so. Unfortunately, unlike with The Killing, Kino does not hold up at all, the grain is much rougher and the compression visibly struggles making for a much less pleasant watch, even if select stills look better.
All discs use the same source transfer. Criterion cleaned up some hums and hiss, but lost a little bit of high-end detail. Unlike The Killing, the difference's relatively mino.
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.
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Cinematographe is an FiM encode
Director: Karel Reisz
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Cinematographe is mis-credited to be an FiM encode. It isn't. Neither the encode nor the color grading are entirely satisfactory.
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
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
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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
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
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
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