Region 4 Winners and Losers

    This material has also been issued in other regions. The material was mastered for PAL release in Europe, and the NTSC versions were made from the PAL masters, not from the original prints, and as a consequence the Region 1 release suffers from motion blurring artefacts and cannot be recommended.

    An earlier Region 1 release, now out of print, contained both this film and A Woman of Paris on a single dual-layered disc, which I purchased to see the earlier film, and have not watched this transfer of the later film in full. This disc included a trailer and the Mandolin Serenade film as extras. The film is presented window-boxed to maintain the original aspect ratio, and from a brief sample of it, the transfer is lacking slightly in contrast and has numerous film artefacts. The new version seems better to me.