Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
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Comedy, Crime • 1h 31m
Director: Mario Monicelli
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto, Rossana Rory, Carla Gravina, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Totò, Carlo Pisacane, Tiberio Murgia, Gina Rovere, Gina Amendola, Elvira Tonelli, Elena Fabrizi, Pasquale Misiano, Renato Terra, Aldo Trifiletti, Nino Marchetti, Mario De Simone, Mario Feliciani, Mimmo Poli, Gustavo Serena, Ida Masetti, Edith Bruck, Gianni Di Segni, Filippo Spoletini
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About the film
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
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- 2026: #7322025: #7572024: #7802023: #8042022: #804
- Alternative Titles
- The Usual Unidentified Thieves
Director: Mario Monicelli
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Kino Lorber Blu-ray doesn’t have good encoding, but according to BR, the English Cult Films Blu-ray is worse, and the original master just isn’t that good
Director: Martin Scorsese
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Victor Sjöström
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Victor Sjöström
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Leo McCarey
Director: Philip Kaufman
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is a significant upgrade over previous WB Blu-ray see comparison
Criterion for the first time on home video have provided the 70mm 6-track as well as the Dolby stereo which was previously on LaserDisc. Both tracks are unique so included both with the 6-track default. Criterion’s 5.1 remix is lossless compared to the lossy tracks of the previous blu-rays and DVDs.
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2023 Criterion 4K Blu-ray (bad compression) / Curzon 4K Blu-ray (visible chroma noise and meh compression)
Director: Roman Polanski
Director: David Lynch
Criterion standard BD encode, sold separately, is not very good
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Richard Rush
> Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode on Radiance compared to Duplitech encode on Shout! Factory)
Directors: Allison Anders & Alexandre Rockwell & Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino
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Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray coming November 27
Director: Todd Solondz
1999 R1 Trimark DVD
The Criterion 4K Blu-ray has audio that, despite being in a lossless codec, is extremely lossily compressed akin to an MP3.
Director: Mike Nichols
StudioCanal 4K caps.Criterion Blu-ray better encode than StudioCanal Blu-ray.
Director: Mike Cheslik
Director: Hal Ashby
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Director: Tom Holland
sounds better than the Sony 4K Blu-ray , https://slow.pics/c/pJfES0fl
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