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2/18/08 at 10:06am
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Walter Hill's excellent Southern Comfort has been out on DVD for some while in R1 and was released in anamorphic OAR by Optimum in R2 last year; what puzzles me is the sound, in both cases in mono (in the R1's case, in mono played through a wet sock...it's quite awful)

I saw this film theatrically, but I couldn't say whether it was originally in stereo, yet it must have been surely? Anyone know what the score is here? Has the stereo track been lost?
So many films, so little time...
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2/18/08 at 10:34am
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Re: Southern Comfort

The official poster lacks the Dolby logo (and very few 35mm stereo films weren't released in Dolby post 1978) so my guess is it was mono originally.
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2/18/08 at 12:26pm
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Re: Southern Comfort

No Dolby logo on the credits either (which was curious); IMDB says mono, yet it also says the LD was released in stereo. Hmmmm....
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2/18/08 at 1:26pm
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Re: Southern Comfort

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Originally Posted by John Hodson
No Dolby logo on the credits either (which was curious); IMDB says mono, yet it also says the LD was released in stereo. Hmmmm....
John,
I watched this film in a movie theater with about four other people in the whole audience, but I can't remember if it was mono or not. However, I do remember that the film appear to be made cheaply so I wouldn't be surprise if it was in Mono.
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2/18/08 at 1:45pm
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Re: Southern Comfort

I'm swinging that way myself Robert, but - dammit - Ry Cooder's score deserves stereo...
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2/18/08 at 7:04pm
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Re: Southern Comfort

I recall there were some LD that was in stereo for films released theatrically on mono. Maybe they made a stereo track from the films mag track? or re-channeled the mono into stereo?
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2/20/08 at 2:19pm
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Re: Southern Comfort

I had the (Samuel Goldwyn?) laserdisc and IIRC it was a Chace Stereo soundtrack. I'm quite sure the original film soundtrack was mono. As has already been mentioned this was a low-budget, fairly independent production--Fox distributed it theatrically in the States, but video rights have been all over the place.
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