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Title: A DVD in proper format is desperately needed
Review: I saw this in the current pan & scan (or as is euphemistically appropriate now, full screen) a few years back and found it to be a painful experience. Adding insult to injury was the condition of the print; faded, washed out, and subject to the ravages that plague single strip colour prints of this era. The movie itself is entertaining enough, but what I'd really like to see is a DVD done in anamorphic widescreen in the Smilebox letterboxing process. This would preserve the original look of the Cinerama process and reduce the amount of distortion normally associated with those tiny lenses Cinerama used. MGM's been doing well with its rereleases on DVD; here's hoping this one will get on the list at some point.
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