Kansas City Confidential (1952) UPDATED

[Brent_Reid]

The French Sony DVD listing (and page footnotes), which appears to be copied from DVDBeaver, claims it's R2, but Beaver says it's R0.

The US Image DVD currently has no timings for its extras. According to this review, the Coleen Gray Interview is 9 minutes and the trailer 1½ minutes... Well, it's better than nothing! It also says other missing extras are: "Cast & Crew", which is text biographies and "noir filmographies" for 6 members of the cast plus director Phil Karlson.

I reckon the MGM DVD is easily the winner and suggest new, simpler footnotes:
This film is in the public domain and there are many substandard DVDs. The R1 MGM disc is the only one mastered from original vault materials and has by far the best transfer. The R0 Image comes in second for its minor extras.

I'd also suggest the BD comparison declare the more recent Film Detective disc the winner. In addition to lossless audio it has a superior remastered transfer, lacking the excessive DNR of the Film Chest BD. Screenshots:

• Film Chest
  Film Detective

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

Picture quality and transfer does not constitute a winner over loser. As for lossless audio 2.0 vs lossy audio 5.1, it's a tie in our rules.
Updated the DVD page.

[Brent_Reid]

Yeah, I know, re the image rules, but thought it worth mentioning just in case. Many comparisons here flag up stuff like that and are very emphatic in either direction. The result of many additions by many different editors over the years, I guess. As I'm sure you know, all 5.1 upmixes are not created equal and that one isn't very good, done on the cheap from a poor quality source - as opposed to one newly mixed from original stems. So there again, in this instance, the lossless mono is definitely "better".

Thanks for doing the DVD comparison.