Excerpt from Jonathan Rosenbaum's article "30 Great Movies on DVD" located HERE

ADDITION: Park Circus - Region 'B' Blu-ray - March 2014 - This is quite an upgrade. This is from a restoration via a 2K scan of the original nitrate - camera negative by the Parisian Digimage laboratories and Bologna's L'immagine Ritrovata coordinated on digital by Pâthé. The, essentially bare-bones, Blu-ray from Park Circus in the UK is single-layered with a middling bitrate but has strong black levels and, in some scenes, a dramatic increase in sharpness. The restoration has eliminated the damage marks (full vertical scratches - see below) that are no longer present in the presentation. The 1080P also shows more information in the 1.18:1 frame - notably at the top and bottom. I like this image even though it is darker and tends to lose detail as compared to the SD. This has great grain texture and a very pleasing, although at times less-consistent, image.

NOTE: David tells us in email "One unique feature of it you haven't mentioned, (it's mentioned on the box cover but you may have a screener) is this resto restores literally one minute of a previously always censored sequence from approx. 45m, 57s to 47m,04s in which Boudu takes a book from Lestingois' shelves, (Balzac's Physiologie de la Mariage no less) and spits on the image of Balzac. Lestingois notices this and they have a brief angry exchange. Interestingly, perhaps because there have never previously been English subs for this missing minute this stretch of the disc is unsubtitled!" (Thanks David!)

Audio is in linear PCM - original French - mono and is, also, superior to the DVDs. There is some light flute music that sounds quite good (almost better than the image.) It is very crisp and clear + tight. There are optional English subtitles (sample below).