Hud (1963) Available from Shock

[Aunt Peg]

I thought it would be worth starting a thread for this.

I flicked through the Blu Ray and it is an big improvement over the DVD. However, there is no chapter menu so you need to fast forward through the entire film if you want to view a particular part.

The negative is that at about the 62 minute mark in a scene between Paul Newman and Brandon De Wilde the film looks like a mesh was covering the camera lens. It only lasts about a minute or so and its not the first time I've seen this in a Blu Ray of a black and white film (Stardust Memories & the first UK release of The Battle of Algiers have the same problem).

I checked the same scene on the Australian DVD of Hud and it was not present - thought I've never seen that mesh look on any DVD ever.

Its a slight annoyance but certainly not a deal breaker.