A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Wild One -- in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Robert Harris]

Mill Creek has released one of the quintessential biker films.

Laslo Benedek's 1953 The Wild One.  A Stanley Kramer production, with a screenplay by John Paxton, and in the lead, a young Marlon Brando, in his fifth film, and second for Mr. Kramer.

We've gotten to a point with Blu-ray, that presumptions can be made, especially about HD masters crafted by Sony, and this is no exception.

The 1953 film is gorgeously rendered as a Blu-ray, with a perfect gray scale, black blacks, a highly resolved image, and perfect grain structure.

The 79 minute film fortunately, needs only a BD-25, which is the way that Mill Creek has released it.

One of the great films of the era.

Image - 5

Audio - 5

Pass / Fail - Pass

Highly Recommended

Especially with a street price of $8.99!

RAH

 

[Ruz-El]

Spun this one last Thursday and couldn't agree more! Great movie, great presentation at a great price. I wish more would follow suit!

 

[Robin9]

If the disc is as good as that, I'll have to buy it. This is film I can watch only once in a while and I never bothered to buy the DVD, but I can't resist a superb Blu-ray disc.

 

[Vahan_Nisanain]

One of Columbia's last 1.37:1 films.

 

[Oblivion138]

Couldn't agree more. I picked this one up a while back, along with the Mill Creek release of Lady from Shanghai, which is equally strong. Great to see these films in this quality. Especially Lady from Shanghai, after two failed attempts from TCM.

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

Mill Creek does good work. IMHO their set of Victory At Sea is better than the pricey A&E version.

 

[Oblivion138]

When they're given good masters to work with, they do solid encodes, I will certainly give them that. They've always been a "bargain" company, but they clearly care about quality, and when they get gorgeous masters, like these from Sony, they can do them justice on disc. Unlike most "bargain" companies of the same ilk.


Very, very happy to see them releasing classics like The Wild One and The Lady from Shanghai in such high quality...and at insanely low prices, no less. These are beautiful renderings. I'll hang on to my DVD editions for the extras, of course.

 

[Robin9]

Very, very happy to see them releasing classics . . . at insanely low prices,

Shush. They might hear you!

 

[warnerbro]

The LADY FROM SHANGHAI bluray was absolutely beautiful and also 8 bucks. Just ordered this, too. Give us more MILL CREEK!

 

[Carcosa]

Its a bit of a mystery to me how Mill Creek ended up with the Columbia catalog. The early blu-ray releases were strangely bundled double features without much grasp of enticing packaging. They are certainly improving here lately on the blu-ray AND DVD fronts.

 

[warnerbro]

If you look at the back cover it says Columbia on it.

 

[Andrew Budgell]

I wonder if Mill Creek will get two other Columbia titles: Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and The Taming of the Shrew (1967)?

 

[sonomatom1]

Andrew: once upon a time, I was hoping for an upgrade S,LS, but I watched it recently (for the first time in many years), and I just cringed at the silly plot line, shrill acting by Ms.Taylor, and the heroic attempts by Clift and Hepburn to keep a straight face during the whole fiasco. All that said, the film, like so many others of questionable artistic merit, deserves a rerelease or restoration; unfortunately, I'm not going to waste any more money on Tennessee's alcoholic, hysterical misfires (and, please, PLEASE, don't lobby for a reissue of Boom! I was embarrassed by the film when I first saw it in high school when I was still an impressionable, emotional teen. What dreck!).

 

[Reed Grele]

Sold.