Geez, two awful movies tonight. First NIGHT & DAY. I have seen this before, but it's been a long time. Some good singers doing justice to Cole Porter tunes, but boy LeRoy Prinz could not fashion interesting production numbers around singers the way Charles Walters and Robert Alton could at MGM. Every one of those "lead singer with dancing chorus" numbers was unimaginative and pure dullsville. The less said about the ficticious life of Cole Porter on display, the better. This must rank among the very worst performances Cary Grant ever gave, but truly he had NO character to work with at all.
The transfer was miles below Warners' usual standard, too. I don't know where they got the bits and pieces they've cobbled togteher to make this transfer, but there are a couple of scenes that are so out of focus that they're painful to watch. Many scenes look like second generation dupes, and then there are some scenes that are so razor sharp that they're astonishing to look at. I don't remember seeing any recent DVD by a major studio which seesaws so wildly in quality throughout.
