Charlie Chaplin 2 Blue Ray Download

Caricature by, 2011.Contents.Will the real owners please stand up?Ironically for the all-time Master of the crime thriller, Hitch’s films have been the victims of more crime than any other classic filmmaker. But who have they been stolen from? Isn’t she lovely? Don’t be fooled: she’s more gold digger than Gold Collection and will only leave you broke and miserable. A German bootleg from SJ Entertainment, DA Music and/or Aberle Media.

Image Coming Soon - Charlie Chaplin Collection 2 Discs DVD. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray.

Take your pick: they seem to be suffering an identity crisis.Curious to see the rest of her immediate kin? Just look at. Very tastefully designed, with absolutely gorgeous faux-embossed sleeves featuring immaculate tinted images.

Don’t they just ooze quality? Unfortunately not: beauty is only skin deep and theirs merely serves to conceal the ugliness lying beneath. Yup: because they’re all bona fide bootlegs. Their actual transfers look bloody awful – like they’ve been VHS-recorded directly off a 1960s TV screen. Also, these DVDs, like other unrestored Hitch silents bootlegs, are untinted B&W, cropped, edited, transferred at the wrong speed and the images bob and weave so much that watching them will make you seasick. As if all that wasn’t enough, they’re topped off with ancient muffled, generic canned music, as their many annoyed Amazon reviewers will attest. Naturally, most of the aforementioned applies to Hitch’s ripped-off talkies too.

Elsewhere in this, I’ve uncovered the provenance of many of his bootlegs’ atrocious transfers; the one for this particular specimen is. But be warned: it’s not a pretty sight.It is a truth universally acknowledged, that if most bootleggers put half as much effort into the quality of their content as they did their sleeves, they’d have far fewer complaints. But they couldn’t care less: they’ve got a great, low cost business model that works brilliantly and attractive sleeves are their honeytrap. Once they’ve got your money it’s immaterial whether you’re satisfied or not.

You’d think eventually folk would wise up and the bootleggers would go out of business, but no: there are always a million more unsuspecting buyers ready to be easily parted from their money. Then there are the repeat offenders: those who buy these awful things over and over.

They either don’t know or care the films can easily be had in much better quality, or they keep spending in the hope eventually they’ll turn up the odd nugget. What they will do is keep funding and encouraging bootleggers and pirates to stay in business, thus killing off the market for quality restored releases.It doesn’t help when blogs and film chat forums are crowded with keyboard warriors, hell bent on spreading their completely misguided, even deluded, but always cocksure opinions.

Perhaps the most egregious one of all is that they’re happy to buy some crappy release, to make do until something better comes along. But the very fact they’re supporting the bootleg industry makes that possibility far less likely. The more money bootleggers make, the more they’re galvanised into saturating the market with shoddy goods. Ergo, shoddy goods are all we’ll ever get. Avoid this beautiful faker: she’s a cheap old German boot and you’re better off seeing the back of her.

The credits even come complete with the absent once again (Native Girl).Pirates, pirates everywhere, and not a drop to drinkEvery country worldwide is absolutely wallowing in homegrown Hitch bootlegs, mirroring the bewildering array of to be had from his fellow Londoner,. As with Chaplin, fans had to put up with rotten copies of their earlier films – if they could see any copies at all – in the dark, dark days before widely available quality home video editions. You can learn, or if you’re old enough be reminded of, how bad they were by looking at the clips in any old Hitch documentary. Or via most present day bootlegs. Why on earth would anyone but a masochist want to put themselves through watching such garbage, when every extant Hitch film can easily and cheaply be had on great quality restored releases?Owing to the ubiquity of Hitch’s British era rip-offs in particular, he’s easily the most heavily bootlegged classic film personage of all. That’s an accolade both he and his fans could do without, but never fear: if a particular release or label isn’t mentioned in this, it’s almost certainly a bootleg. I’ve certainly listed every official pre-Hollywood era Hitch BD in existence.

Sadly, owing to this rampant piracy, the likes of Germany, Spain and Australia each have just a tiny handful of quality official DVDs of his British films. Meanwhile, Italy has a sorry total of only three official releases. In many other countries the situation is exactly the same – if they have any official discs at all. But those domestic markets are all awash with Hitch bootlegs.

You see now how this works? Cause and effect, especially in the world of niche film releases on home video. Detailing all the Hitch-infringing labels to avoid would be impossible: there are literally hundreds of them churning out thousands of different discs. Though having said that, I previously compiled a substantial line-up of. There’s also a 2008-compiled list covering the first 10 years of US Hitch boot DVD labels kicking around the internet with over 50 entries on it, but dozens more have appeared stateside in the interim. Another point is that while the persistent thieves are happy to bootleg or pirate actual films, they hardly ever touch any of their many extras.

Mind you, squatting out space-saving, single-layer, plain ‘vanilla’ discs is with bootlegs in general.Though Hitch’s British films endure the bulk of the thievery, almost as frequently the same fate befalls a seemingly arbitrary handful of his 1940s American movies. Even mainstream British newspapers have been guilty of transatlantic Hitch copyright theft.

In those cases I doubt it was due to malice or greed; simply that the Hitchcock = public domain mindset is so ubiquitous no one bothered to pay due diligence before okaying their ‘ release. In terms of awareness, there’s a lot of lost ground to make up.Rogues’ gallery: the bad and the beautifulBuy Hitch bootlegs and this is what you can expect. It’s more than Suspicion: this is definitely a bootleg and prolific thieves Resen are the culprits.

There is a legit Spanish BD but it’s, not these shysters.Incidentally, if you are in the market for a little HD Suspicion (1941), the only legit BDs are identical but differently packaged discs hailing from the (also on ), and the aforementioned. There’s also an entry from, which like the others is, so will play anywhere.Let’s spotlight a prolific German outfit who are pretty typical of the larger operations churning out bootlegs. They’re one of many in that country with a special affinity for preying on Hitch’s catalogue and are the first to produce domestic Hitch boot BDs.

Just their Hitch discs alone are published under many different label names, most likely as a smokescreen. Those confirmed include:;; daredo;;;;;; Polarfilm; Soulfood; White Pearl Movies, Power Station, and others. Coincidentally, they’re also affiliated with the attractive German boots described earlier. They’ve also littered streaming services like Amazon Video with their ripped-off versions. Their DVDs cram on up to, making for an appallingly low bitrate. Some include other, like the genuinely PD Carnival of Souls (1962).

Even their single-film BDs are in than the official versions, with several containing standard definition material passed off as HD. Even on one of their ‘better’ discs, for Spellbound (, 1945), its stars are horizontally squashed and waxy on the German pirate compared to the far superior official US Criterion disc: Ingrid: ; Gregory:. Other discs featuring restored transfer ripped from official releases naturally lop off the copyright and restoration credits in a weak attempt to hide their source. Mac xbox controller driver.

Hitchcock 1926-1946 German bootleg BDs all from the same company, the variously named Great Movies/Indigo/WME Home-Entertainment, etc – they just can’t make their minds up.Foreign bootlegs do commonly include local subtitles and occasionally an additional local dub. However, sub translations are usually very poor, while dubs are lo-fi and frequently incomplete, being lifted from VHS tapes and recordings of edited old TV broadcasts. However, not even these minimal efforts apply to the German releases in question. Their BD, DVD and digital versions alike are all completely vanilla, subtitle and extras-free efforts. Even among cost-cutting bootleggers this level of cheapness is almost unprecedented for foreign releases of English-language films (and French, in the case of Hitch’s ). In, despite being listed on the sleeve, the original English-language track has been omitted altogether!

Some of them have even been edited specifically to conform to their incomplete dubs. Unbelievable.All films on and BDs are B&W, losing their original tinting, and run at, making their transfers especially questionable. Many films are inexplicably renamed, for instance, originally released there as Geheimagent (1936) becomes.

Meanwhile, The Paradine Case (1947), known in its only to date by the direct translation Der Fall Paradin, on is now Schuldig oder nicht schuldig? ( Guilty or Not Guilty?).

Still others claim to feature Der Mann, der zuviel wusste aka The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), have the. The latter film’s (also ) has a shot of its star, Peter Lorre, in on the rear: right actor, wrong film. Similarly, the rear sleeve of of has swiped artwork from of The Lodger and I hardly need tell you the latter film isn’t actually even on the Spanish disc. We can play this game all day; here’s a doozy:, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara, on (also ) has a cover pic of Laughton and Carole Lombard in They Knew What They Wanted (1940)! I could go on – and on – but I think you get the idea. In short, bootlegs and pirates are not only put together by thieves, but stupid ones, who have no idea what they’re doing.

Don’t fall for their woefully substandard rubbish.Again, for The Paradine Case, here’s the German-friendly. You little star. This German Great Movies BD has Hitch’s wartime shorts, Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache (1944), in their original French only, with no subs whatsoever and the icing on the cake? It’s in particularly poor standard definition. You’d be far better off with any of the licensed, subtitled releases.Surprisingly, many of the German bootleggers’ wares have been reviewed on numerous otherwise-credible home video sites, not one of which has picked up on the fact they’re plugging illicit copies.

Such ignorance only aids bootleggers in general: the internet is a truly wondrous, democratic arena where everyone has a voice. Unfortunately, all too often that also applies to the ill-informed. Such endorsements, along with being sold by trusted, established outlets like Amazon and eBay, only lend the rip-offs both credibility and respectability. Here’s not looking at you, kid. German Great Movies etc bootleg box set.It’s your moveOf course, rather than buy licensed releases you could always go online and stream or download copies of many of these films for free. But again, as with Chaplin, you’re more likely than not to end up watching ones that are, to put it mildly, of sub-optimal A/V quality and completeness. Added to their other shortcomings is the quality of the discs themselves.

Of course, the cheapest low quality blanks are always used and a recurring issue with all boots, especially Hitch’s, is that they frequently skip or freeze, or won’t even play at all. Granted, not all boots are terrible quality: sometimes they’re copied (at lower bitrates) directly from regular releases and visually at least, are often virtually indistinguishable in quality – albeit minus any extras, original language subtitles, etc. Technically, those are classified as pirates or counterfeits, as well as bootlegs.If you happen to already own any Hitch boots, bin them or give them to someone you dislike and treat yourself to the pleasure of seeing the films transferred properly. I can’t stress it enough: everywhere you look, the number of good quality, official releases is relatively small, as opposed to the countless shoddy knock-offs outnumbering them many, many times over.

Granted, the bootlegs are usually ridiculously cheap to buy. But crap, no matter how cheaply it’s sold for, is still crap.

Ultimately, bootleg buyers are really cheating themselves. Not only that, but very often the quality versions can often be had for little or no more money anyway. The choice, unlike the bootlegs themselves, is always clear.It’s easy to spot bootlegs of Hitch’s British films and others. Avoid if they’re not listed here:For more tips on spotting counterfeits in general, see:The last word goes to our old friends Resen, who have unwittingly – and half-wittingly – given us a pirate of pirates.