6.8 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
A pirate takes over a munitions ship, killing the captain, and when the crew mutinies and abandons ship, is left aboard with the captain's widow.
Starring: Deborah SheltonForeign | 100% |
Crime | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.41:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Greek: Dolby Digital 2.0
English
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region free
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 0.0 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
Kostas Karagiannis's "Dangerous Cargo" (1977) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Mondo Macabro. There are no supplemental features on the disc. In Greek, with optional English subtitles for the main feature. Region-Free..
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Presented in aspect ratio of 1.41:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Dangerous Cargo arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Mondo Macabro.
The release is sourced from a recent master that is good but a bit uneven. Indeed, excluding a few small color fluctuations, the bulk of the daylight footage looks quite nice. It boasts good clarity and pleasing fluidity, plus some sequences also have very pleasing fluidity. The darker and indoor footage, however, often conveys black crush, which tends to collapse finer nuances. It appears that the grading job was more aggressive than it should have been, but excluding the stronger blacks the produce the crush the overall color balance is actually quite nice. Also, the film looks clean and stable. All in all, despite the minor inconsistencies this is still a very nice technical presentation that makes it easy to enjoy the film. My score is 3.75/5.00. (Note: This is a Region-Free Blu-ray release. Therefore, you will be able to access its content regardless of your geographical location).
There is only one standard audio track on this Blu-ray release: Greek Dolby Digital 2.0. Optional English subtitles are provided for the main feature.
The lossy track is so good that I am not at all convinced that a lossless track would have made much of a difference. Why? Because the original soundtrack is actually quite fluid, with plenty of organic sounds and noises that enter it as freely as possible. Perhaps there are a few areas where dynamic activity would be expanded with a lossless encode, but I don't think that the difference would be significant. The English translation is very good.
Dangerous Cargo is a small film that should be of interest only to hardcore fans of Debbie Shelton. It is promoted as an exploitation thriller, and to a certain extent perhaps rightfully so, but I am not convinced that it has the type of material to impress the folks that enjoy exotic/rougher films. I would have loved to see a vintage interview with Shelton in which she explains how she met director Kostas Karagiannis and decided to contribute to his film, but there are no bonus features on the release. If you decide to give Dangerous Cargo a shot, I think that you will enjoy the technial presentation quite a bit because Mondo Macabro's release is sourced from a good recent remaster.
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