Swanee River

Poor quality DVD.
This is another poor quality Fox Archive release. the picture is very soft and dark. In some of the dark scenes,
you cannot even see the actors. If Fox cannot be bothered to produce a decent copy, why do they bother at all.
They introduced Cinemascope to the world, in all its widescreen splendour, but insist on producing
pan and scan versions for Archive release!
Warner Archive and Sony/Columdia produce first rate copies of their MOD releases, so why can't Fox?
They probably do not even read all the negative reviews posted on Amazon.

20th Century Fox Cinema Archives releases need help!
The color of this print is fairly acceptable for the
most part, until the last 20 minutes or so where the scenes
become very dark and the colors are flat and washed out.
By comparison, Do You Love Me, Nob Hill and
Sweet Rosie O'Grady look great.

Regarding 20th Century Fox Cinema Archives dvds:

I urge everyone to contact 20th Century Fox
to tell them that pan and scan releases
of widescreen films is not acceptable...
Also, you might want to urge them to improve the
picture quality of their Cinema Archive releases,
especially the color films...

888. 223. 4369

A great movie spoilt by a poor transfer.
I had been looking for this film for years and was delighted to see that 20th Century Fox had finally realeased it. Plus, as I had only ever seen it on a black & white television, it was a pleasant surprise to see that it was in technicolor. Unfortunately, my delight was severely muted by the poor transfer. As other reviewers have remarked, the picture is dark, and, on my copy, the sound in several places has undertones that I can only describe as large marbles running along wooden planks.

A great movie like this deserves better treatment.

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