Shout! Factory

The latest and best restoration from official screencaps are from Shout! Factory Silent Film Festival + Cinémathèque Française https://silentfilm.org/preservation/the-italian-straw-hat/ which is from Original Camera Negative and original France title negative. Janus seems to have acquired the rights https://www.janusfilms.com/films/2259 The Grapevine Blu-ray (including their updated 2K transfer) or the Flicker Alley DVD might be the ones referred in the above Shout! Factory Silent Film Festival as "US viewers have had to be satisfied with either the alternate version that was released in the United States in 1931, or hybrids that supplement the US version with additional footage"

US Shout! Factory or UK Eureka Blu-ray likely very similar from other comparison in the same boxset see DVDBeaver

Shout! Factory Blu-ray

Kino Lorber has some additional noise reduction. Universal NTSC DVD's worse than either of the Blu-rays.

WB 2005 DVD

https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-leopard-man-1943.html

Shout! Factory Blu-ray or France Elephant Films Blu-ray

No comparisons

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray see caps

SF is in 1.66 aspect ratio. Whether this is the intended ratio or a compromise isn't clear.

American Film Institute's catalog and Variety's contemporary review list it as 1.66, but other sources disagree.
Exhibitor's contemporary review lists it as 1.85, IMDB and an internal pre-production note from Warner Bros. list it as 1.75.

1989 MGM LaserDisc

UK Arrow has the best encoding, but only US Shout! Factory has the fixed Quicktime Gamma Bug.

Both Germany and UK Arrow suffered from the bug, see caps comparing 0.88 gamma fix

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

MGM Letterbox LaserDisc, 2004 DVD mono, or Shout! Factory Blu-ray mono

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray introduces pitch issues on the mono mix. LaserDisc mono is from worn element but sounds mostly natural with possibly some attempts at noise reduction. MGM 2004 DVD mono transfer is higher quality without the wear but may have some processing applied. Shout! Factory Blu-ray is the same MGM mono now in lossless but seems to be EQ'd a bit differently. LaserDisc, DVD or Blu-ray is a toss up but those are your three options. The Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is useless due to the pitch issues. The remixes are very poor.

Eclair new 4k resto,
StudioCanal UK lower bitrate and yellow tint,
Kino Lorber did color correction on top of that, but maybe the old Shout! Factory/MoC 2k transfer with better color but worse details is better overall
Check caps-a-holic, and discussion https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=217927&page=7

> BFI 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/nPcxCNW4

Some find BFI better but with more DNR and AI upscaling like their horrible 1979 Nosferatu 4K Blu-ray, and Shout! Factory has more over-exposed grading https://slow.pics/c/WQKmBTLJ

2000 R2 Stonevision DVD

2000 R2 Stonevision DVD vs Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray?

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray disappointing

Sandpiper Pictures Blu-ray includes theatrical trailer

All pre-4K BDs (Twilight Time US, Suevia Spain, Imprint Australia, Koch Media Germany)

All pre-4K BDs (Twilight Time US, Suevia Spain, Imprint Australia, Koch Media Germany) are the same, and significantly better than the 4K restoration (Shout! Factory, Arrow, Kino Lorber), and a bit better than the MGM NTSC DVD.