The Big Lift (1950, w Montgomery Clift) decent, uncut DVD anywhere? (1 Viewer)

[Jari K]

As the title says.

 

[Richard V]

All I've ever seen are prints that look like they were filmed at midnight through a lens painted black.

 

[billw6560]

All I've ever seen are prints that look like they were filmed at midnight through a lens painted black.

I just watched the DVD from Netflix, and it's terrible. The picture was very fuzzy (akin to a high compression rate), had a lot of aliasing, and the sound was very distorted and over modulated (clipping). It's as though that whoever released the DVD took a VHS copy and did a poor job copying it to a DVD. I saw this in TCM some time ago, and their broadcast version was fairly decent. Not much help though for the DVD issue.

 

[Robin9]

It seems all over the world there are dozens of DVDs of this film . . . and they are all total garbage! So, who owns this film?

 

[Bob Cashill]

It's a Fox movie that seems to have slipped into the public domain.

 

[Robin9]

It's a Fox movie that seems to have slipped into the public domain.

So it's another Beneath The 12-Mile Reef situation. Well, Fox did release a really good DVD of that film long after numerous PD discs of extremely low quality had flooded the market. Can lightning strike in the same place twice? Fox: what have you to say?