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Title: NOT widescreen!!!!
Review: Beware!!! If you stick this DVD in your machine on the side marked "widescreen -- aspect ratio 1.85:1" you will see even LESS of it than by watching the 1.33:1 side!!!! This is NOT the true widescreen version of The Searchers. Instead, Warner Bros have -- disgustingly and insultingly -- simply taken the 1.33:1 print, cropped the bottom and top, and magnified what's left to make it fill the screen!!!! What this means is, you actually see MORE if you watch the 1.33:1 side of the disc!!!!!! On the 1.85:1 side, you lose bits not only from the left and right of the original print, but from the top and bottom as well!!!!!The film itself, of course, is brilliant, one of my 10 faves, and stunning even when seen in its old 1.33:1 ratio. Just don't watch the fake widescreen version -- and write to WB immediately to demand they release a proper edition of this classic!!!!!!
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