Uncharted was originally planned several years ago as a David O. Russell film with Mark Wahlberg, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci starring in the film version of the popular video game. By the time it finally got made, Russell, De Niro, and Pesci had dropped out and Wahlberg was reassigned to the film’s second lead with Tom Holland taking over the starring role.

Those familiar with the video game seem to be disappointed in the film. Those not familiar with the game, tend to find it an exhilarating adventure in the tradition of Raiders of the Lost Ark. That’s quite funny when you think about it, considering that Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark was based on old movie serials which had more in common with today’s video games than any other source for today’s films.

Films can’t be expected to be reproductions of video games any more than they can be expected to be reproductions of books, stage plays, or any other source material from which they are derived. Not being familiar with the game, I found the film a pleasant experience highlighted by the ingratiating performances of Holland and Wahlberg. Holland, who came to fame as one of the original stars of Billy Elliot the Musical, has been a major screen presence since his breakout performance in 2012’s The Impossible. Wahlberg, whose breakout performance was in 1997’s Boogie Nights, has been great in such films as The Departed, for which he was nominated for an Oscar for his performance, and The Fighter, for which he was nominated as one of the Best Picture nominee’s producers.

At present, Holland is a top box-office star thanks primarily to the Spider-Man franchise, which reached its apex with last year’s Spider-Man: No Way Home while Wahlberg’s films have slipped in popularity both with critics and at the box-office. Together, however, make a nice team.

Directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad), Uncharted is a fastmoving film about treasure hunters searching for the fortune amassed by explorer Ferdinand Magellan half a millennium ago. Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro) is the principal bad guy in the film made prior to Spider-Man: No Way Home but released after it.

Uncharted is available on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD, and comes loaded with extras.

Criterion has released a Blu-ray of Joseph Losey’s 1976 film Mr. Klein, which has been given a beautiful 4K restoration.

Losey is unique in film history in that he was a major director in three different countries. His first Hollywood film was 1948’s beloved ode to being different, The Boy with Green Hair, starring 12-year-old Dean Stockwell as the orphan whose hair turns green overnight and Pat O’Brien in a rare age-appropriate role as his singing waiter grandfather. Other Hollywood films followed as late as 1951, but none came close to matching its popularity. Then the blacklist caught up with him and Losey moved to England where he worked under pseudonyms until 1957’s Time Without Pity reestablished him. He hit his stride in the 1960s with The Servant and Accident and continued in England through the early 1970s with such major films as The Go-Between and The Romantic Englishwoman. 1976’s Mr. Klein was his first French film.

Alain Delon had one of his best roles as an amoral art dealer in 1942’s Nazi-occupied Paris in which he falls under suspicion of the Vichy government when a Jewish newspaper is misdelivered to his apartment. Proving he is not Jewish and not the Robert Klein for whom the newspaper was intended proves his undoing as the Nazi collaborators work mercilessly against him.

Highly controversial at the time of its release for its portrayal of the real-life Vichy government, the film never lets up in its depiction of existential dread, culminating in an ending just short of the ending of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.

Extras include the 1986 documentary Story of a Day about the real-life Vél d’Hiv Roundup, which resulted in the arrest of 13,000 Jewish residents of Paris and their expulsion to Nazi concentration camps in a single day where most of them, including children and the elderly, were executed upon their arrival.

Universal has released The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection Vol. II on 4K Ultra Hi Definition.

A follow-up to the first volume that included four Universal-controlled films, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds, this one includes five more Universal-controlled films: Saboteur , Shadow of a Doubt, The Trouble with Harry, Marnie, and Family Plot.

While all five films look and sound even better in 4K Ultra Hi Definition, the standout is 1955’s The Trouble with Harry, the first of three films in this collection in color.

The rare Hitchcock comedy opened to tepid reviews and an indifferent public in the U.S. in October 1955 but later proved a hit in London and Paris and reopened in the U.S. where it was more successful. Previous home video releases did not do justice to the film’s strong color palette. Seen now in all its glory, it is now perfectly understandable why 20th Century-Fox borrowed its stock footage of autumnal Vermont for its 1957 smash hit, Peyton Place. Ironically, one of Peyton Place’s nine Oscar nominations was for its cinematography, no doubt driven by voters who thought the Trouble with Harry footage was filmed for the later film set in Vermont but filmed in Maine because Vermont wouldn’t allow the film version of the controversial novel to be filmed there.

The Trouble with Harry is that he’s dead and Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick, and Shirley MacLaine (in her film debut) all think they were responsible, so Gwenn and local artist John Fosythe keep burying him, digging him up, and burying him again to stay one step ahead of sheriff Royal Dano catching them. Mildred Dunnock who, along with the borrowed cinematography, was also in Peyton Place and Jerry Mathers co-star.

There are still five Universal-controlled Hitchcock films yet to be given a 4K Ultra Hi definition upgrade. Can a package featuring Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Torn Curtain, Frenzy, and Topaz be far behind?

This week’s new Blu-ray releases include Licorice Pizzza and the 4K Ultra HD edition of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.