ADDITION: 20th Century Fox - Region FREE - Blu-ray (November 2013): Solid upgrade from the 2006 DVD. Textured grain is visible, colors are richer reaching Technicolor heights, detail is stronger and there is a notable amount of additional information in the frame. The higher resolution did expose, more prominently, the opening scene's obvious backdrop. I seem to recall noting it when I watched the SD - but it is more blatant here. No problem. It tends to have some teal-leaning. No bump this time as Fox has the original mono in DTS-HD Master at 1086 kbps sounding flat but clear and the biggest beneficiary of the uncompressed sound is Alfred Newman rousing score. There are optional subtitles and a couple of foreign-language DUBs. I have verified the disc as being Region FREE. No new supplements - the same, informative Rudy Behlmer and Maureen O'Hara commentary and a trailer. The 'Restoration comparison' and Fox Flix are no longer there.

NOTE: BK says to us in email: "I don't know when it became fashionable to overuse the term "teal" in terms of Blu-ray transfers and to apply that term as a negative, when Desk Set finally looks exactly as it should - it has no teal/blue leaning to it at all - it's just right for the first time - the middle shots are green - you can't think the film ever looked like that - and the color on this Blu-ray is a perfect replication of what this film looks like in dye transfer Technicolor - I owned a print of it and it's exactly the same. And the same goes for The Black Swan, which also replicates perfectly now what it should have always looked like." (Thanks BK!)

This remains a very above-average pirate adventure - great cast from Power, O'Hara and the fine supporting players. Henry King pieces it together for fine entertainment. It's a shame they don't make these swashbuckling romances anymore. I suppose it makes these few Hollywood efforts more unique from a classic era gone by. Recommended!

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