Blu-ray Review A Kiss Before Dying (1956) Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

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A Kiss Before Dying (1956) Blu-ray Review

A murder mystery turned into a melodramatic murder thriller, Gerd Oswald’s A Kiss Before Dying might not have the shocks of the original book...
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[Robin9]

Well, the DVD is acceptable - to me, at least - so, as this transfer is less than ideal, I'll stay with standard definition.

 

[atfree]

watched my copy Sunday. Sorry to say, the reviews are pretty accurate. Very inconsistent disc, at times looks great then colors shift in the middle of a screen, frames are missing, all as Matt indicated. All in all, watchable but probably not better than the upconverted DVD. A disappointment.

 

[Robert Crawford]

So is the recommendation not to buy this Blu-ray and stick with the DVD?

 

[Keith Cobby]

The reviews and comments seem to be consistent which is annoying because I like this film and was hoping the image quality would be similar to the excellent Violent Saturday. I will get this on a price reduction.

 

[haineshisway]

I have it here but haven't had a minute to even check it out. Can do that on Sunday.

 

[Flashgear]

The source print is badly beat up in some sequences, it alternates between looking good and sporadically slips into awful to somewhat acceptable sequences... the inexplicable (to me) color shift into blue is distracting at times...

This film deserved better treatment by MGM, apparently the sins of neglect go back a long way...bad elements...so, I don't blame Kino-Lorber, of course...and, I'm still glad to have it as it's a fine film...

If you like your old dvd, I think it should suffice, and agree that this blu would be a better buy at a discount...

 

[haineshisway]

Here we go again - there is no shift to blue, nor is the color on view especially vibrant or accurate. It's a pretty crappy source or a crappy transfer and a weird one, but there is no shift to blue (oh how I wish we could just leave that in the dust by now) - I have the DVD somewhere and haven't compared but will try to do so.

 

[OliverK]

Detail is a substantial improvement over the DVD:

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/screenshot.php?movieid=144004&position=4

I doubt that people would be hard pressed to see the difference between the Blu-ray and the DVD. The inconsistencies that have been mentioned should not be as visible with a lower resolution source as DVD so that would be a plus for the DVD.

 

[Gary16]

According to IMDb the aspect ratio should be 2.55:1 not 2.35:1. Some scenes look cropped a little too tight.