Is the colorized version still available on DVD? Is it complete, or cut down as it is on tv sometimes?

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Adams5905 — 9 years ago(December 16, 2016 02:22 PM)

Ugh-I have just finished watching the 'colourized' version of this classic-it was borrowed off a friend, and it never occurred to me that anybody could have ruined this film by applying this technique. On calling her, it appears that she owns both the orininal B/W
and
this colour version, but the original has never been watched, and is still in it's cellophane What a shame-by colourizing it, all of the nuances of light and shade are ruined-also, the actors were specifically made up and lit for B/W film, which is hugely different from colour, and the result is that they look odd, as though the colours weren't moving with their characters. I shall re-watch the B/W version next week (and probably buy it off her), and enjoy it hugely Unfortunately, with my new TV, it would appear it's impossible to simply turn the colour 'down', as I used to do in the old days, when I stumbled upon colourized versions of Laurel and Hardy or Harold Lloyd films, which sort of did the trick
I've
seen
things you people wouldn't believe

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TwoThousandOneMark — 9 years ago(December 17, 2016 10:59 PM)

Colorization is lame. This film thrives on B&W, it being an overnight ghost story no less, on Christmas Eve.
The soul of this film is quite lost with colour.
my essential 50
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls056413299/

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hodie1 — 9 years ago(December 24, 2016 04:50 PM)

I have it colorized on DVD, I think, though it all seems sepia-toned. I remember it in black and white and would prefer that version, maybe because I had a B&W TV when I was young.

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paul-273-129025 — 9 years ago(December 24, 2016 06:44 PM)

This as a film I have to watch every Christmas as it is a masterpiece. I recorded the film today on Channel 5HD (UK) and without realising I'd recorded the colour version as well as the b/w version. I'm not 100% against colourisation if it makes watching older more accessible to people (although I do love b/w films). But I started watching the colour version and then put on the b/w version and the difference is incredible. There is so much more detail and incredible picture quality in the b/w version. It is head and shoulders above the colour version.

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Scarecrow-88 — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 06:02 AM)

Have the VCI release with both B&W and Color versions, accompanied by Patrick Macnee intro and outro.