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Indeed! A great sweeping saga with a marvellous Korngold score. The DVD is, unfortunately, rather poor quality.

It was the Gable. I must have missed that it had been released on Blu. The main point was that so many of those Warner DVD releases were damned good print quality.

Since we are unlikely to get more than a small proportion of those great, vintage movies on Blu-ray, I recently re-visited some of the original Warner DVD releases. SAN FRANCISCO and MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY are stunning prints - probably as good as DVD can ever be. I spot-checked a few other of...

TWO WEEKS WITH LOVE is certainly a wonderful movie (one of my favorites) but I thought that the DVD was rather soft (nice colour though). It's certainly nowhere near as sharp as THE KISSING BANDIT which is close to Blu-ray quality. Although we may never get to see most of the great MGM musicals...

What is sad is that, even with streaming, we will never get to see hi def copies of musicals like A DATE WITH JUDY (with teen-age Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Powell), DU BARRY WAS A LADY, EXCUSE MY DUST, THE GREAT ZIEGFELD, I LOVE MELVIN, IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME (with an ageing Buster Keaton)...

I agree. What about GOOD NEWS - BEST FOOT FORWARD - TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY - ZIEGFELD FOLLIES - THREE LITTLE WORDS - WORDS AND MUSIC - THE PIRATE - BELLE OF NEW YORK. The list goes on!