The fact that Fox has begun supporting the anamorphic enhancement makes me want to shout hallelujah. I just hope that that the enhancement becomes standard on all their future DVD releases. Even the level of shadow detail contained in this transfer is superb. Flesh tones are fully realistic, while the rest of the hues offer better saturation than I thought possible for a film from this particular era. Chroma noise is completely absent from the image.
Blacks are faithfully recreated and the contrast is very smooth.
Reference level DVD authoring, in conjunction with the use of dual layer technology hid all visible traces of digital compression artifacts. The surround channels provide a lot of ambience, but lack the punch found in new films. The forward soundstage packs a wallop, offering terrific channel separation across the front. Dialogue reproduction is clean, but the timbre of the actor's voices lacks the immediacy one finds in newer recordings. There are some respectable bass passages in the track, but they don't have the potency that one would find in a new film.