best dvd version???

Actually you can pre-order right now this title on Blu-ray at amazon for $7.95. Seems like a bargain, but let's see how good is the transfer from "Blu-Ray Only Llc."

My GF brought home this movie on DVD, she was really happy because she only paid about 1.5 dollars for it... BUT the awful quality of the DVD ruined the movie experience for me. (over-satured colors, edge enhancement, dirt, speckles; The audio track has lots of hiss and pops during whole the movie, etc.).

One thing is certain: "TLTISP" is gonna look and sound better than ever, but that ain't difficult at all.. If the Blu-ray has the quality of a decent DVD then I might consider buying it, if only as a present for my GF or mother.

Yes, many WA discs could use more restoration or at least clean-up work, but of course that is somewhat at odds with the made-on-demand nature of the label...although they're much improving things, even releasing MOD Blu-rays.

Considering the fact that The Last Time I Saw Paris fell into public domain when MGM failed to renew its copyright in 1982, and that consequently there are lots of crummy p.d. versions floating around, it's great that WA itself released the movie. As I said in my post five years ago, they have the original print and so their source material will automatically be far superior to any of the poor-quality, knock-off, multi-generation prints p.d. outfits use.

I wish Warner would release more MGM films that fell into public domain, for the same reasons -- the prints would be vastly better, the films uncut, complete and in their proper aspect ratios. In the late 70s and early 80s a number of major Metro movies fell through the cracks and the studio failed to renew its copyrights on them -- films such as Till the Clouds Roll By, Royal Wedding, Father's Little Dividend, Go for Broke!, Cause for Alarm, Vengeance Valley, Three Guys Named Mike, Mr. Imperium, The Painted Hills and a few others. That's a lot of movies to forget about, especially with major stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Fred Astaire, Loretta Young, Van Johnson, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster and others in them. While Warner has released some of them (on DVD or MOD) it would be nice to have them all. People forget that even if a studio has lost exclusive rights to a film, that doesn't prevent them from releasing their own version like anybody else, which would for the reasons we've mentioned certainly be superior to any p.d.-label issue.

20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. also have a few such films from the same era on which they failed to renew their copyright, though not as many as MGM. Some have had a studio release but others not yet.