The Quiet Man
 

Does anyone know if Artisan or some other company is planning to remaster The Quiet Man - both current editions including the collectors edition have an awful picture Thanks Richard

Yes, Paramount now owns the rights, and will be putting out a decent version soon. From what I understand, the film is already remastered...but the soundtrack needs some more work.

Should be out within the next couple of years, I'm thinking.

Forget Artisan (or Lion's Gate) remastering it. They've "remastered" others like HIGH NOON and it was no better, maybe even worse, than the first issue. They really don't do a very good job with their classic films at all.

However, the good news is that it looks like the rights are reverting to Paramount. From this thread at HTF:THE QUIET MAN is a Republic Pictures movie. :) Here's hoping Paramount gets some good elements and does a proper restoration and nice DVD version sooner rather than later.

It would be pretty hard for them to do something WORSE than the previous two dvd releases! Good news, indeed!

I have Artisan's Invasion Of the Body Snatchers disc. I would love to see an improved transfer of this film. Maybe Paramount will someday release the original version in it's correct aspect ratio. Has anyone heard news concerning this?

I can name a long list of republic pictures that need to be re-released

starting with a SE for It's a wonderful life

The original 3-strip negatives to The Quiet Man reside at UCLA's Film & TV Archive. So, any remaster (of course, from a new intermediate element) would look fantastic.