6.6 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
A reporter exposes a crooked mayoral candidate as New York reels over the reported threat of a tidal wave.
Starring: Ralph Byrd, George Barbier, Kay Sutton, Frank Jenks, Marc Lawrence (I)Sci-Fi | Insignificant |
Crime | Insignificant |
Drama | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.37:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (locked)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 0.0 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
John Auer's "S.O.S. Tidal Wave" (1939) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of independent distributors Olive Films. There are no special features on this release. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-A "locked".
Brainwashing in progress
Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, John Auer's S.O.S. Tidal Wave arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Olive Films.
The film must have been remastered rather recently because aside from a few tiny white flecks it looks very nice in high-definition -- it is stable, boasting very pleasing depth and clarity, and overall strong fluidity. The grading is also convincing, though ideally some minor nuances could have been expanded a bit. There are absolutely no traces of problematic digital tinkering. Grain is retained and rather nicely exposed. The entire transfer is also free of sharpening adjustments. All in all, the film has a strong and convincing organic appearance. (Note: This is a Region-A "locked" Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-A or Region-Free player in order to access its content).
There is only one standard audio track on this Blu-ray release: English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. Optional English SDH subtitles are provided for the main feature.
There are no technical issues to report in our review. The audio is clean, nicely balanced, and free of annoying age-related imperfections. The overall dynamic movement is unlikely to impress viewers that appreciate contemporary mixes, but this is the nature of the original sound design.
There are no supplemental features on this Blu-ray release.
What John Auer's S.O.S. Tidal Wave attempts to do is very similar to what William Cameron Menzies' Things to Come does -- it warns about a future where people's minds would be incredibly easy to manipulate with advanced technologies. Of course Menzies' film is far bigger and bolder, while Auer's film basically focuses on conventional TV news reporting. Given how the big social media networks have changed the ways we access and consume news, and how utterly unreliable broadcast journalism has become in the last decade or so, I think that it is really difficult not to agree that the film correctly predicted the future. The narrative construction could have been better, but I still enjoyed this film. RECOMMENDED.
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