DVD?

There was a VHS release in the US by Prism the back in the early 80s. It's out of print and rare, but you can find copies sometimes as cheap as $25-30. The thing is, the film wasn't dubbed into English. The original language was English, spoken by the actors themselves.

I watched a version recently with Italian audio that was taken from a widescreen (laserdisc?) release with burned-in Japanese subtitles. Clearly, the lip movements were out of sync and all the scenes appeared to be exactly the same as the English version. At least, as far as I could tell.

So, strangely enough, this seems to have been an Italian film set in France and made with Italian and French actors speaking original English, which was then dubbed back into Italian for release in Italy. I think some of the voices were done by different people too, especially for the Justine and Juliette characters. They just sounded wrong.

Well, even if that makes the fullscreen English VHS the "best" current version, I would still love to hear more about this recent Italian DVD (2006, by Millenium Storm) from anyone who has it. Most sites claim it's in widescreen, but others say fullscreen. If the specs are right and the quality as good or better than the Japanese version, I might have to take the risk and buy it. Hopefully, I could then somehow figure out how to add the English audio track from my VHS tape to the DVD.