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Southern Comfort

post #1 of 7
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?
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post #2 of 7
2/18/08 at 10:34am

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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post #3 of 7
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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post #4 of 7
2/18/08 at 1:26pm

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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post #5 of 7
2/18/08 at 1:45pm
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I'm swinging that way myself Robert, but - dammit - Ry Cooder's score deserves stereo...
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post #6 of 7
2/18/08 at 7:04pm

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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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post #7 of 7
2/20/08 at 2:19pm

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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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