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

Edward Dmytryk's (The Caine Mutiny) 1958 CinemaScope production The Young Lions, is a WWII drama based upon the book the Irwin Shaw.

It's one of those films with a potentially great cast, inclusive of a blonde Marlon Brando, that while entertaining, never seems to hit the notes that one might expect.  Was something lost between novel and screenplay?

As a Blu-ray is a quite beautiful affair, with lustrous black and white, as captured by the great Joseph MacDonald.

While I like the overall look of this Blu, with its gorgeous grayscale, I can't help but feel that somehow, their may be just a bit of grain management occurring.  There's nothing obviously wrong here -- no plastic people -- but I just get the feeling that there might be a bit more high frequency information hitting the screen.

Image - 4

 

Audio - 5

4k Up-rez - 4

Pass / Fail - Pass

 

RAH

So I wasn't imagining things when I wished this one had more grain( and The hustler) That was the only thing missing from this 4k transfer

Glad to see RAH feels the same way as I do about the film content. I expected more from the film, "shoulda" been better.

Poor Monty



Just compared this to my NTSC DVD

The blu Ray is a revelation .By comparison the DVD is an ugly blurry mess with halos galore. These BD's are miracles compared to DVD. At 2 hours and 47 minutes long I wonder if they had to shave a bit of HF information to compress it to 50 GB's?