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The Manchurian Candidate(1962)
A US Army hero returns to New York from Korea, but has been mysteriously programmed by Communists to assassinate a presidential nominee, but when his Army buddy becomes suspicious of the goings on, he is on the trail to stop him. For more about The Manchurian Candidate and The Manchurian Candidate Blu-ray release, see The Manchurian Candidate Blu-ray Review Starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory Director: John Frankenheimer » See full cast & crew The Manchurian Candidate Blu-ray, Video QualityThere's mostly good news about The Manchurian Candidate's AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.75:1 (very slight pillarboxing). The best thing about this new Blu-ray upgrade is the luscious black levels, so dark and oily you can virtually bathe in them. This aspect helps boost Lionel Lindon's cinematography to suitably somber levels. Contrast is on the whole also excellent. Sharpness and clarity are also substantially better than the most recent SD-DVD release. Where some viewers may have issues is with the film's at times overwhelming grain, which veers dangerously close to noise on a couple of nighttime shots. There's also a lack of consistency in sharpness from shot to shot, something which has been endemic to all previous home video releases of this title. Some segments of the film look stunningly detailed and wonderfully precise, while others are softer and suffer from occasional artifacting like shimmer and aliasing. Overall, however, this is certainly a better, cleaner looking transfer than we've seen on this film and most fans will be satisfied, if not jumping for joy. The Manchurian Candidate Blu-ray, Audio QualityThe Manchurian Candidate has been "tarted up," so to speak, with a new lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix. The good news here is there's nothing so horribly obvious and out of place it's going to drive anyone to distraction, but the lingering question remains: why? This is not a film that really cries out for a surround track, though the lossless audio certainly helps support the absolutely gorgeous, elegiac score by David Amram. Surround utilization is really fairly sporadic here. You'll here a helicopter pan and some side channel usage in the opening battle scene, and later in the kind of funny karate scene with Sinatra and Henry Silva various bashes and bams surround the listener, but otherwise this is a quiet, deliberate film based entirely on dialogue, usually between two people. There are some noticeable qualitative differences in some of the ADR here, notably the narration, which sounds just slightly boxy.
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• Best Buy Starts Blu-ray Exclusive Page - January 31, 2011 Tomorrow, Blu-ray enthusiasts are expected to flock at the doors of Best Buy: no matter your film tastes, there is bound to be something at BB that you like and you won't find it anywhere else, as the retailer will offer over a dozen exclusive BD titles, from various ...
• Another Best Buy Blu-ray Exclusive: Manchurian Candidate 1962 - January 20, 2011 Best Buy has secured the exclusivity for another catalog title, this time from the MGM/UA catalog: the original John Frankenheimer version of The Manchurian Candidate, starring Laurence Harvey and Frank Sinatra, which is already up for preorder, with a release ...
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