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 of this the Region 1 release suffers from motion blurring artefacts and cannot be recommended.

    An earlier Region 1 release contained both this film and A King in New York on a single dual-layered disc, which I purchased to see the earlier film. This disc included a re-release trailer and some supplemental material 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 in terms of picture quality. However, the running time is 90:52, and the cover mentions that the material deleted from the re-release version is included. Based on that running time and PAL speed-up, this version runs nearly 10 minutes longer. How much of this is due to additional footage and how much to a slower running speed I do not know, but I suspect more due to the latter than the former. Unfortunately, this version is now out of print.