What Blu-Ray did you watch last night?

[Ed Gordon]

Bad Day at Black Rock was an early CinemaScope production from MGM and the opening with the train was structured to show off the wide screen. It's a great mystery set in a small town which is is hiding something.

I would also recommend it. It is available to stream on Youtube, but if you have a video projector, get the Bluray!

Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 title sequence

BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK - (1955) HD Trailer

[Graham Ritchie]

Watched this one the other night. I first saw this film years ago as a 16mm Scope print and was impressed with it.

The blu-ray quality is excellent highly recommend it

[Mike Newell]

And the newspaper didn't last long after, due to other things they did with people's privacy, not the disc.

Bit much calling it a newspaper Brian. For US readers National Enquirer with smut and tits.

Some of the promo DVDs like Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail even The Sun ones weren’t bad.

[Brian Fretwell]

It is an overlooked version. Mind you there have been so many versions out there Alastair Sims , Kermit and Bill Murray are my favourites. If you want a rotten copy this one is hard to beat. A colorised version of the 1951 was handed out by a newspaper as a freebie. A five year old with crayola crayons was in charge of the colorisation. Truly awful plus a beaten up print to match.

And the newspaper didn't last long after, due to other things they did with people's privacy, not the disc.

[Mike Newell]

We watched our Blu-ray of the 1935 "Scrooge". It is one of the worst imaginable transfers you could possibly imagine, taken from a terrible version of the shortened print at 60 minutes. The sad thing is that folks have actually done far better amateur restorations on this film at it's full length, on YouTube! This is a fairly interesting version of the story, some of the photography taking its cue from the German expressionists period of the 1920's and some interesting experimental special effects. Ironically, the fellow playing Scrooge played him on film in a 40 orso minute version in the second decade, and on stage in the first decade, but by 1935, he didn't need much make up to age him!

It is an overlooked version. Mind you there have been so many versions out there Alastair Sims , Kermit and Bill Murray are my favourites. If you want a rotten copy this one is hard to beat. A colorised version of the 1951 was handed out by a newspaper as a freebie. A five year old with crayola crayons was in charge of the colorisation. Truly awful plus a beaten up print to match.