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Directed by Douglas Sirk
USA 195
5

 

Douglas Sirk is best known for his highly stylized Technicolor melodramas, but he also did superlative work in restrained black and white. There's Always Tomorrow is a virtuoso study in tones, ranging from the blinding sunlight of a desert resort to the expressionist shadows of the suburban home where Fred MacMurray lives in unhappy union with Joan Bennett. Barbara Stanwyck is the old flame who turns up by accident, rekindling for MacMurray the dangerous illusion that happiness is still possible.

Excerpt from Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader

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Between his twin masterpieces All That Heaven Allows and Written on the Wind, Douglas Sirk created this razor-sharp study of male crisis, both a glittering testament to love’s labours lost and his most unforgiving vision of suburban conformity.

Disregarded and neglected by his family, executive toy manufacturer Clifford Groves (Fred MacMurray) is unexpectedly reunited with his former co-worker Norma Miller (Barbara Stanwyck). As the old friends catch up on lost time, his children’s suspicions and hostility to the new relationship threaten to push their father away permanently and throw into disarray the lives of all concerned.

With crystalline, noir-tinged cinematography from Russell Metty (Touch of Evil) and heartbreaking performances by Stanwyck and MacMurray, reunited 12 years after Double Indemnity in their final on-screen pairing, There’s Always Tomorrow finds one of Hollywood’s greatest dramatists at his finest. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this little-seen classic in a new special edition.

Excerpt from MoC website located HERE.

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Theatrical Release: July 11th, 1955

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Eureka (Masters of Cinema) - Region 2 - PAL vs. Elephant Films - Region FREE - Blu-ray vs. Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray

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Distribution Eureka (Masters of Cinema) Home Video - Region 2 - PAL Elephant Films - Region FREE  -Blu-ray Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Runtime 1:21:21 (4% PAL speedup)      1:24:25.727 1:24:40.075
Video 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
Average Bitrate: 7.51 mb/s
PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s

1.85:1 1080P Sing.-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 21,741,553,092 bytes

Feature: 17,592,680,448 bytes

Video Bitrate: 24.98 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

1.85:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 28,803,684,761 bytes

Feature: 26,536,224,768 bytes

Video Bitrate: 37.90 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.

Bitrate:

Bitrate Elephant Films Blu-ray:

Bitrate Kino Blu-ray:

Audio English (Dolby Digital mono) DTS-HD Master Audio English 1400 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1400 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1344 kbps / 16-bit)

DTS-HD Master Audio English 1554 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1554 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Commentary:

Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps

Subtitles English (SDH), None French, None English (SDH), None
Features

Release Information:
Studio: Eureka

Aspect Ratio:
Original Aspect Ratio 1.85:1

Edition Details:

• Days with Sirk, a 61-minute documentary from 2008 featuring rare interview footage with Sirk shot in 1982 (1:00:36)
• Original theatrical trailer
• Original dialogue and continuity script (in PDF form)
• Booklet featuring an essay by Andrew Klevan, excerpts from a 1977 interview with Sirk and rare production stills

DVD Release Date:
February 22nd, 2010
Transparent Keep Case
Chapters: 14

Release Information:
Studio:
Elephant Films

 

1.85:1 1080P Sing.-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 21,741,553,092 bytes

Feature: 17,592,680,448 bytes

Video Bitrate: 24.98 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

Edition Details:

•  Sirk Featurette (8:41 / French only)
•  The Film (4:17 / French only)
•  Trailer (1:23)
•  Gallery Photo (2:13)


Blu-ray Release Date:
March 26th, 2019
Transparent Blu-ray Case inside cardboard sleeve

Chapters 12

Release Information:
Studio:
Kino

 

1.85:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 28,803,684,761 bytes

Feature: 26,536,224,768 bytes

Video Bitrate: 37.90 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

Edition Details:

• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Samm Deighan
• Theatrical Trailer (2:39)


Blu-ray Release Date:
August 25th, 2020
Standard Blu-ray Case

Chapters 9

 

 

Comments:

NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Kino Blu-ray (August 2020): Kino have transferred Douglas Sirk's There's Always Tomorrow to Blu-ray. It improves upon the single-layered Elephant Films Blu-ray from last year. The Kino has a 50% higher bitrate and the grain textures and contrast gain a video advantage over the French HD presentation. It may not be a massive improvement but I found it noticeable, in-motion, on my system. It looks marvelous.

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On their Blu-ray, Kino also use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel (16-bit) in the original English. I couldn't detect much of a difference with the Elephant Films audio transfer. The score is credited to Herman Stein (This Island Earth, Female on the Beach, The Land Unknown, It Came From Outer Space, War Arrow, Tarantula, The Incredible Shrinking Man) and Heinz Roemheld (Dangerous, The Monster that Challenged The World, The Land Unknown, The Mole People, 1933's The Invisible Man). It also improves over the DVDs with more resonance and depth - adding emotion to the viewing experience. Kino offer optional English (SDH) subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Kino Blu-ray has a new commentary by Samm Deighan who just keeps getting better in my opinion. Samm's preparation and deeper look at the film as a tragedy focusing uniquely on a male character in the melodrama genre. She makes some very valid and astute points seeing beneath the surface about Sirk's subtle intentions including the restraints of marriage, how the children are unfairly dismissive, almost cruel to their father and how the story builds sympathy for Clifford Groves (MacMurray) with an unrequited affair and lack of emotional support, by his own family, for his work successes and responsibilities. He is lonely. She talks about one of my favorites - Joan Bennett - and her portrait of a self-possessed, self-serving wife doting on the children but oblivious to her husband and his potential affair with Stanwyck. I really enjoyed listening and learned a lot about the film seeing another side to it. There is also a trailer for There's Always Tomorrow and other Sirk and/or Stanwyck trailers.  

A huge treat to, again, watch this, unjustly neglected Sirk film that improves with repeat viewings. There is so much to examine even beyond the melodrama triangle, mid-life crisis and male-female dynamic for with both adults and adolescents. I loved the 50's household - furniture and fashions (check out Stanwyck's black + white diamond vest). With the Samm Deighan commentary the Kino Blu-ray and its superior video image get the nod as the definitive digital releases of this wonderfully deep film. Our highest recommendation!

Gary Tooze

 


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