Bicycle Thieves (1948)

[Brent_Reid]

There's been lots of online discussion about the relative merits of the three different licensed BD transfers, especially on Blu-ray.com and CriterionForum.org. In case you're wondering, the consensus of best-worst is the Italian San Paulo (90:40), US Criterion (89:27) then UK Arrow (88.35). However, no-one's yet mentioned the huge disparity in runtimes. Does anyone know the reason why; is anything missing?

I only own the Italian BD and will post specs shortly...

[Samuel_Scott]

Moving to discussion as no correction included

I guess the time could be down to anything from additional company logos (though the amount of time seems quite big for this) to dead screen at the end.

[Eric_Cotenas]

Re: Criterion - aren’t Criterion and Janus logos part of the same video stream of the titles?

Italian might include logos and restoration credits (and possibly info anout the restoration)

[Brent_Reid]

I've submitted the Italian BD specs. The actual runtime, minus restoration credits, is 88:53. It uses the same new restoration as the Criterion, though the latter's transfer is much lighter and cropped. The Arrow BD (and the Oz Umbrella port) use an older, grain-scrubbed transfer. Can anyone confirm the actual film runtimes of any of these?