Hollywood Story / New Orleans Uncensored Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.0
Video		3.5
Audio		3.5
Extras		0.0
Overall		3.0

Hollywood Story / New Orleans Uncensored Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman July 15, 2020

Kit Parker Films assembled three interesting collections called Noir Archive Volume 1: 1944-1954, Noir Archive Volume 2: 1954-1956 and Noir Archive Volume 3: 1957-1960, but all three of those volumes were also branded with the Mill Creek Entertainment logo, despite one “helpful” member sending me a seemingly very insistent private message, when the first volume was announced and was bearing the Mill Creek Entertainment name in our database, “informing” me that “Mill Creek had nothing to do with this.” Mr. Parker himself actually sent me an email clarifying a kind of partnership which resulted in both entities being listed on the releases (and indeed Mill Creek Entertainment had at least something to do with them), but the upshot is Mill Creek Entertainment itself has now re-released New Orleans Uncensored, which was featured in the second volume of Kit Parker’s offerings, along with Hollywood Story, in a double feature that offers two lesser remembered films helmed by the venerable William Castle.

For reviews of the two films in this set, please click on the following links:

Hollywood Story Blu-ray review

New Orleans Uncensored Blu-ray review

Hollywood Story / New Orleans Uncensored Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Hollywood Story / New Orleans Uncensored Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Hollywood Story / New Orleans Uncensored Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Perhaps surprisingly, Mill Creek has packaged this release with each film on its own Blu-ray disc. Unfortunately, though, neither disc offers any supplementary content.

Hollywood Story / New Orleans Uncensored Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

While neither of the films in this set is some kind of undiscovered masterpiece, they each have a lot to recommend them in their own ways, albeit within the confines of middlebrow fare that isn't out to set the world on fire in terms of either content or style. Technical merits are generally okay if improvable (especially with regard to some unrestored video), for those considering a purchase.