I agree with cobram-1. It deserves to be in the Top 25 Films of all time. It has it all: beautiful scenery, great performances, tastefully implied sexuality delivered with wit, and a musical score that gives me goose-bumps. If not released on blu ray, the LEAST Artisan/Republic could have done was remaster this classic by going back to the three-strip Technicolor negatives, and then scan each one, realigning them to prevent the fuzziness seen in all VHS and DVD copies, and do some color correction. Think of how great “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Gone with the Wind,” and “The African Queen” all look, and they were all shot using the same color process, but Warner Brothers and Paramount, which hold the rights to those films, spent millions giving them the treatment they deserved.
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