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Lord Jim. Has it ever been released on Blu-ray? (1 Viewer)

Josh Steinberg

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Danger, Will Robinson...this comes from Spain.

Yeah, there are no legal, legitimate Blu-ray releases of this film in any territory in the world. Someone from Spain is pirating the streaming HD version by putting it on a disc and selling it illegally.

The legal choices customers seeking this title have are either the standard definition DVD, or the digital HD version available from digital retailers like iTunes/Vudu/Prime.
 

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The legal choices customers seeking this title have are either the standard definition DVD, or the digital HD version available from digital retailers like iTunes/Vudu/Prime.
I would avoid the iTunes version, as well. It’s cropped to 16:9.
 

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If this deluxe French version of Lord Jim is a bootleg, it is the most exquisite one ever made! The included media book is 204 pages and both a DVD & BR are included. Not the best quality BR I own but, entirely within format specs.
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I also own the legitimate French blu ray release of LORD JIM. The PQ is not stellar for blu ray but it is in its proper aspect ration
 

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The French release on the Wild Side label, has a distributed by Warner Bros logo but has no Sony or Columbia logos. It gives the copyright date of the film as 1965, renewed 1993 by Pax Incorporated. Very curious.
 

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"My Movies" adds this info (in French). Colombia is mentioned along with Warner Home Vidio.
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Columbia is mentioned on the box, but Warner probably had the european video distribution deal with Columbia as they both shared the same lot from 1972 until the 90's and were known as The Burbank Studios
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If this deluxe French version of Lord Jim is a bootleg, it is the most exquisite one ever made! The included media book is 204 pages and both a DVD & BR are included. Not the best quality BR I own but, entirely within format specs.
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stunning, I have purchased many French Blu-ray's, thy do greeat work. My only issue is that all of the Bonus content is not English friendly. I purchesed the 1930s releases of The Count of Monte Vristo, Man in the Iron Mask, the Corsican Brothers and Caliostro (Black Magic). All were wonderful prints, very clean... not when it came to all the wonderful in depth bonus features , in French only and no suntitles of any kind???
 

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When LORD JIM is on TCM , it is shown in its widescreen aspect ratio.
I don't understand why Sony won't change the cropped 1.85 version on iTunes , VUDU or Amazon to the widescreen version
 

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Have you checked to see if the subtitles are available for a thumb drive download? If your player has a USB input the subs will show up as "other" on the subtitle menu. They may not be available for bonus material, but I have the French 4K of "Eiffel" and the thumb drive is small enough to keep in the corner of the disc case.
 

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