Pride and Prejudice (1940) coming from WAC

[Akijama]

NEW 2020 1080p master from 4K scan from best surviving preservation elements!
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940)
Run Time 118:00
Subtitles English SDH
Audio Specs MONO - English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English
Aspect Ratio 1.37:1, 4 X 3 FULL FRAME
Product Color BLACK & WHITE
Disc Configuration BD 50

Like the arrows she launches at an archery target during an elegant lawn party, Elizabeth Bennet’s wit is pointed and unerring. “If you want to be really refined, you have to be dead,” she says, skewering the imperious airs of her hosts. Jane Austen’s timeless 1813 novel of unlikely romance is richly adapted in this lavish Academy Award® winner.* Greer Garson portrays spirited Elizabeth, one of five Bennet sisters hoping for matrimony. Laurence Olivier plays Darcy, whose arrival at a nearby estate sets maiden hearts aflutter. But first impressions can mean so very much. Elizabeth and Darcy find reasons to view each other with disdain, setting in motion a velvet struggle of Pride and Prejudice, perception and reality, forgiveness and love. You’ll be irresistibly caught up in it.

Special Features: Oscar-Nominated Crime Does Not Pay short "Eyes of the Navy"; Vintage Cartoon "The Fishing Bear" ;Theatrical Trailer (HD)

[javi92]

Heck yeah! We need more Greer Garson on blu!

[Gunsnroses092789]

Originally Posted by javi92

Heck yeah! We need more Greer Garson on blu!

Agreed. Just watched Madame Curie with her that's great.

Would love Blossoms in the Dust and Random Harvest upgraded to Blu!

[javi92]

Originally Posted by Gunsnroses092789

Agreed. Just watched Madame Curie with her that's great.

Would love Blossoms in the Dust and Random Harvest upgraded to Blu!

Blossoms in the Dust would be splendid. Maybe one day. I would kill to see GG in Technicolor in HD.

[russkie]

Someone needs to tell Amazon that Pride and Prejudice blu-ray isn't Pat & Mike in their title listing.

[Randy Miller III]

Review up on the main page.

Pride and Prejudice Blu-ray

[latehong]

Comparing a WAC Blu-ray to its DVD counterpart almost always exhilarates me: Caps-a-holic

[HDTV1080P]

This classic 1940 Pride and Prejudice movie received a 4K scan and restoration from the surviving 35mm film elements (the orginal negative might not have been used at all or only used in some movie scenes because of its condition). Warner Bros should have released this movie on the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray format (and maybe one day they might), instead a standard 2K (1080P) Blu-ray was released. Maybe it was not in the budget to offer a colorized version so the original black and white is what people get. I guess people should be happy that the 1940 Pride and Prejudice movie received a standard Blu-ray release back on 7-28-2020, since this movie originally lost $241,000 back when it was released in 1940. The movie had a budget of over $1.43 million dollars and box office sells was only $1.849 million dollars.

While I am not a fan of the movie (some people really love this classic movie, a family member that I know loves the Pride and Prejudice story), the standard dual layer Blu-ray disc uses 38.8GB of space out of 50GB with MPEG-4/AVC codec at high video bit rates using the 1080P resolution. For a 1940 black and white movie the picture quality is gorgeous. In terms of audio quality all Warner Bros releases should be like this one. The movie and 100% of the extra features uses lossless audio. Many studios only do lossy audio for extras, however Warner Bros for this release gave everyone lossless audio for 100% of the extra features. All the extras use the MPEG-4/AVC codec, with 1080P for the Eyes of the Navy and Theatrical Trailer. The Fishing Bear cartoon is MPEG-4/AVC with 480i SD. The Eyes of the Navy was an interesting documentary to watch.

Randy Miller III wrote a professional review for this movie at the following link

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Pride...133969/#Review