There is a consistent impression of grain running throughout the transfer. Thankfully there did not seem to be any serious problems with low level noise. The only good thing is that as bad as it sometimes gets, this is a better looking effort than the VHS tape and in many ways there is a lot in the film that can be really seen for the first time. As you can pretty much guess, there is not much in the way of a colour palette on offer here. Dull, matte colours predominate with very little in the way of bright colour to alleviate the dingy look to the whole film.
Tonal depth is non-existent, so that blacks never really look black.
Oversaturation clearly is not any sort of issue, but there are some indications of colour bleed at times. Given the nature of the transfer though, I would hazard a guess that this is inherent in the source material. There did not appear to be any significant MPEG artefacts in the transfer. The film was originally recorded in plain old Dolby Stereo so what we pretty well have here is probably the original soundtrack - and it sounds like it. There is just the one soundtrack on offer on the DVD, being an English Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack.