Great stuff here.... All of these films look better on blu-ray than on the old dvds....especially White Heat....the indoor scenes in Petrified Forest look noticeably better, while the out door scenes have a lot of gray, but are still pretty good.... Public Enemy and Little Caesar are both improved, but still have a lot of scratches and some grainy scenes here and there.... The mono audio tracks on all the films are still very limited, but ample.... The extras are the same as on the DVDs.... Too bad the Warner night at the movies sections are still standard definition.... Oh we'll, these are all great films--Cagney, Bogart and Robinson are all at the top of their game, easily out shining the wooden character actors contained herein....worth it just to see Cagney flip out in the prison cafeteria in White Heat--he kinda sounds like Dwight Frye in Dracula.... Mother of mercy, is this the end of the review?....
The picture quality of the "White Heat" Blu-ray is very much improved over the DVD (maybe a 15% improvement to my eyes), and that's saying something since the DVD was already pretty good. There's a tremendous amount of detail revealed in nearly every scene. The blu-ray unveils the textures of skin, clothing, furniture, and machinery to very good effect, making the film more lifelike.
There is one shot in the opening sequence (during the train robbery) that has poor image quality, but that was true on the DVD as well. Perhaps it looked that way originally.
Audio quality may have improved, but I didn't notice a great change from the DVD.
Overall I am very pleased with the Blu-ray of "White Heat," and consider the upgrade wotth the cost.
I look forward to reading what others have to say about the 3 remaining films in this set.I have to say, "Little Caesar" & "Public Enemy", MIGHT look better than on dvd ( I'm not sure I agree), but they are very crappy remasters for blu ray. Especially considering their place in film history. They should have done a better job. I did not even get to the others. I was so disappointed in the picture quality, I sent them back! Here's hoping WB does a better job on Cagney's other films and the rest of their classic gangster films!Event the worst of Warner's 4 volume gangster movie collections, are a 100 times better then so many of the mob, criminal underworld movies we see today. Im just wondering why Warner's, since they own the copyrights still I believe. Did not offer us a BluRay suite of the DVD releases, rather then just the few fantastic offerings they do put on the BluRay. I hope maybe they will release all their originals that we saw on DVD on BluRay rather then limiting us to this one release, cause I loved every single one of those shoot-em ups and would love to see them all,the best and worst on BluRay. Anybody else feel the same?No "Angels With Dirty Faces"? Would have definitely considered buying this BluRay, if this gangster masterpiece had been included....Under the circumstances....no deal!
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