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Indiscreet(1958)A tycoon pretends to be married while courting a beautiful actress. For more about Indiscreet and the Indiscreet Blu-ray release, see Indiscreet Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on January 16, 2013 where this Blu-ray release scored 3.0 out of 5. Director: Stanley Donen Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, Megs Jenkins, David Kossoff Producer: Stanley Donen » See full cast & crew Indiscreet Blu-ray, Video QualityIndiscreet is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Olive Films with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.78:1. This film was lensed by the legendary Freddie Young (Lawrence of Arabia), but you'd hardly know it by the lackluster look of the film, partly due to its claustrophobic "one set play" source material (Donen does attempt to open things up, to middling effect). The elements here are in generally quite good shape in terms of damage, but the color is another matter entirely. Things have noticeably faded, with flesh tones and reds tipped rather precariously toward the brown end of things. Young repeatedly filters Bergman's close-ups in a gauzy soft focus technique: this is not a transfer issue and is faithfully recreated here, though no doubt some "experts" will insist there are problems where there are none. Ironically, a lot of the non-soft focus material isn't particularly sharp, with midrange shots sometimes offering little more than blobs of color. The transfer looks a good deal better in motion than some of these screenshots might suggest, but this isn't quite at the level we've come to expect from Olive, perhaps because the elements were not curated particularly effectively by Paramount. The good news is that Olive continues to leave well enough alone and has not tweaked this transfer in any noticeable way, shape or form. This is in fact a rather grainy offering, especially in some of the opticals (a couple of split screen moments, which presage Pillow Talk, suffer from added dirt and softness, as should be expected). Indiscreet Blu-ray, Audio QualityIndiscreet's lossless DTS-HD Master Audio Mono audio is in about the same general condition as the image quality— certainly acceptable, but in the "could it have been better?" range. There's noticeable distortion in the midrange with regard to the film's piano based score, though dialogue is largely free from any distracting issues (Grant's official speech early in the film sounds a little strange, but I'm assuming that that was intentional, meant to mimic the sound of his amplified voice in a large hall). There's a rather narrow sound to the track at times, but generally speaking things sound fine if not fantastic.
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Indiscreet Blu-ray, News and Updates• Two More Titles Coming Up From Olive Films in January - November 2, 2012 Independent distributors Olive Films have added up two more titles to their January slate: Richard Wallace's comedy It's In The Bag (1945), starring Fred Allen, Jack Benny and Don Ameche, and Stanley Donen's Indiscreet (1958), starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman ...
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