Product: SLEUTH - (Russian Import - PAL DVD) (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Clarification
As an earlier reviewers has pointed out, Anchor Bay has released TWO different prints of Sleuth, so you'll want to be careful which release you purchase. The older release had an unsatisfactory transfer that looked very bad. That version was a flipper disc and was packaged with a WHITE cover, and Anchor Bay has wisely let it go out of print. Avoid it! (Unless you collect OOP DVDs....)The newer release has a BLACK cover and boasts a much improved transfer. (Just compare the vibrancy of the colors in the film to the muted colors in the unrestored trailers to see what I mean.) In addition to putting the whole film on one side of the disc, Anchor Bay also included an extensive and fairly interesting interview with writer Anthony Shaffer. This version is probably definitive -- and certainly the one to buy.Apparently, however, Anchor Bay is going to let this release go out of print, too. (It has disappeared from their online catalogue.) So buy this quickly if you have any interest in it at all. I can't imagine any other company giving this film a better overall treatment.