Which version is better? Color vs. Black/white?
I know the original version is black/white, but the color version was supervised by the director.
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I saw the color version many years ago, and it wasn't all that bad (standard def), but this film (unlike many others) actually does better as a black and white and this film is one I would simply prefer to watch as a B&W.
If you have no moral objections to colorization (I don't), the you might like the colorized version but AFAIK, the colorizations are done on standard def and not high def. Downgrading to standard def is a deal breaker for me.
What? Only the black/white version had high def? Thanks for the information.
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As far as I know, yes.
They seemed to have stopped broadcasting the various colorized versions of movies about the time when cable networks went to HD, so I'm *assuming* that either they didn't colorize HD prints or that the colorized prints didn't look good in HD.
Maybe they could colorize these films again using better software, but there simply might not be enough demand to justify the cost and effort.
No, the color version has been released on Blu-ray, while the B&W version has been released on UHD. I actually prefer the color version of this film. I find it to be marvelous.
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