The new DVD is a beauty!

I recently bought a copy of the DVD via Amazon and although they said it was for Region 1 only, (I live in Region 2) I thought I'd try it. If it didn't work, too bad. However, it did work on my computer - but nearly banjaxed my machine as it took a lot of persuading to go back to playing Region 2 DVDs again! Why do they make DVDs for different regions? To quote a character from "Annie" - "It ain't fair"!

I must reluctantly agree. The transfer was a big disapointment. With the ladies wearing blotchy orange lipstick, you would have thought the technicians at Fox Home Video would have realized something was not quite right with the print they were using. The poor color transfer sadly detracts from several of the dramatic scenes, including the touching farewell between O'Connor and Vera-Ellen in the wine cellar. This wonderful musical is more visually pleasing if you can catch it on the Fox Movie Channel.

I've watched my copy of this DVD more than once and am surprised at the complaints of a couple of posters here. Mine is about as good as one could hope for, considering the age of the film, the condition of the source material, and the probable fact that the Fox Home Video technicians did not lavish meticulous care on its transfer (since the projected price was, let's face it, bargain basement). My memory of seeing it in a downtown Boston, Massachusetts, theater during its first-run release is still amazingly vivid, and I recall that the wine cellar scene was, for the tastes of today's audiences, seemingly underlit, but on my copy of the DVD I've got no complaint at all about the transfer.

It's entirely possible that some hastily manufactured copies are not up to snuff, and I know I'd return one if I found it inferior, as I did a DVD of "The World of Henry Orient" which had absolutely abominable audio. I got a refund on that one, since I heard (by the time I'd finally acquired my own copy), that the soundtrack had been horribly muddled by the video manufacturer.