Still, if you must view it, the pan and scan it looks about as good as that format can. The Letterboxed transfer is stunning. Claude Renoir's beautify cinematography has never looked as good as it does on this wide screen presentation. The transfer restores most of the Panavision aspect ratio and features the anamorphic enhancement for wide screen televisions. Crisp, clean and razor sharp are words that don't go far enough to describe image quality.
Colors are vivid and reproduce flawlessly.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack is pretty good, considering that this film is from 1977. The stereo imaging is good across the front channels, but there is little more than one would find in standard Dolby Surround for the rear channels. Other soundtrack options include a matrixed Dolby surround compatible track and a French language track. Subtitles are available in English, French and Spanish. The DVD edition of the film looks and sounds simply smashing.