Mildred.Pierce.1945.Criterion.HDR.2160p.UHD.BluRay.x265.HEVC.FLAC-SARTRE

TITLE...........: Mildred Pierce (1945)
STARS...........: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
DIRECTOR........: Michael Curtiz
WRITERS.........: Ranald MacDougall
GENRE...........: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
METACRITIC......: 88/77
TOMATOMETER.....: 88/90
IMDB SCORE......: 7.9
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037913
RUNTIME.........: 1h 51mn
SIZE............: 23.4 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L5) HDR10
BITRATE.........: 30000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 2960x2160
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: English FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion UHD Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2025-06-01 [Re-encode]
CHECKSUM........: 252B18FF16B93EFA4DC7B5045F3FA3A4

** NOTE ** Previous encode was flawed due to a bug in x265.


Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Joan Crawford’s iconic performance as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford’s career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by her bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn (a diabolical Ann Blyth) becomes a venomous serpent’s tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations. Recasting James M. Cain’s rich psychological novel as a murder mystery, this bitter cocktail of blind parental love and all-American ambition is both unremittingly hard-boiled and sumptuously emotional.


Extras

• Molly Haskell and Robert Polito
• Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002)
• David Frost and Joan Crawford [January 8, 1970]
• Novelist James M. Cain [November 26, 1969]
• Actress Ann Blyth
• Trailer