The movie must be owned by 20th Century Fox as it plays on the Fox Movie Channel and that channel doesn't show movies from any other studio. And I just saw the "new widescreen print" you mention on the channel just now and am disturbed by what I saw. Even though the film is broadcast "letterbox", there has still been some squeezing of the picture making it less wide than it actually is. All the characters, cars, locales--everything--looks slightly thinner than they really are. And given that Audrey already was a rather tall and thin beauty, this distortion is not very complimentary to her. It is getting increasingly difficult to find older films presented on television these days without this squeezing technique being used. Obviously it's done to squeeze a widescreen picture onto the TV screen is most cases--I guess this qualifies as "full" screen, 'cause doing it certainly avoids the necessity to "pan and scan"--but it is astounding to me that they would show a movie like this one in what appears to be the original dimensions at a casual glance but is nonetheless still squeezed somewhat anyways.
If the DVD release (if there is one; it's likely since Fox has a pretty good track record of releasing their movies in nice DVD editions) is like this then I wouldn't recommend anyone bother...
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