In general, the colors do look nice, but there are moderate problems due to the age of the film and the technology of the period. Shots that don't involve optical dissolves or other special effects have solid colors that appear very stable, as well as respectable flesh tones. However, any time an optical crops up, the colors appear somewhat faded and shift away from the look of the rest of the scene. At no time do the hues have the rich saturation that one finds in Technicolor prints, but then again, the De Luxe color doesn't appear particularly faded. Blacks are fairly inky and the image does have good depth.
Dual layer authoring keeps digital compression artifacts from becoming noticeable.
The Dolby Digital 3.0 channel soundtrack would appear to be a direct port of the film's original stereo sound mix. There are no overt flaws in the sound presentation. Dialogue does move across the front, but continues to maintain full intelligibility, no matter the position. Directional sound effects also pan nicely across the forward channels. An English surround and French monaural soundtracks are also encoded onto the DVD, as are English and Spanish subtitles.