Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I am writing this about the blu ray version. I'm a retired Hollywood film editor AND a professional harpist....perhaps the only person in history who has been both! That said, this is a classic film with a classic harp performance by the late WB staff harpist, Gail Laughton. Gail told me that he had about "an hour" to show Cary Grant the bare basics of playing harp before he filmed the scene. Gail overdubbed himself 3 times in order to get the otherworldly sound of an angelic harpist, and in two shots you actually SEE Gail's hands. They used an optical printer and matte shots to put in Cary Grant's head where Gail's should have been! Gail said they put black velvet over his head, and he "played blind" to his own playback to get that footage--and the resulting shot had audiences astounded that Cary Grant played the harp so well. All in all, a GREAT scene and story! Why ONE star??? Because for whatever reason, that scene is EDITED DOWN! I compaired it side-by-side with the DVD version, and this blu ray version is missing fully 11 seconds and 3 frames of film! That's a big chunk of film, especially from the end of a musical number. It's not a splice or a skip on the disc. It's a deliberate cut with an audio cross-fade to make the music track cut less obvioius. Missing are the final glissandos Cary Grant makes (which are rather hysterically out-of-sync with Gail's original playing.) It's rather charming and not a significant flaw, and it's ALWAYS been there in every other video iteration....VHS, LaserDisc, DVD, and now blu ray. But it's cut. Unacceptable. I'm returning it. This may be a tiny flaw to most, but to me it's like cutting out the last 11 seconds of "Over the Rainbow" or losing the last 11 seconds of "Some Like It Hot"!