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Sole Survivor is one of those films I remember from my childhood where it remained one of those films you brought up in discussions starting with 'do you remember the film where...'! In fact it is hard to talk too much about the film without giving away the plot so for those of you who have reached this page and remember the film I will concentrate on the Blu Ray to help with prospective purchases. If you have arrived here by chance, perhaps through a William Shatner search, then this is a classic 70's b-movie with a twist and well worth a viewing or two. Certainly one of my favs from the 70's
I loved this film so much I have spent an odd hour or so over the internet years of hunting down a copy but it seems this title has had all sorts of issues over the years. Some relate to which studio actually owned the distribution rights through to some very poor DVD's that were released for sale which I obtained and turned out to be nothing more than a poor VHS copy to a DVD. Now though we at last have the chance to view this via a DVD or, as I review here, a Blu Ray and it was a day-1 purchase for me. Released by a small, fairly new, UK company called Mediumrare Entertainment the film arrives in a dual DVD/Blu Ray set.
In terms of picture quality you shouldn't expect a leading-edge quality release with Lossless surround sound, extras, widescreen and more - what you have here is a bare-bones basic release with an 1.33:1 image (as in non-widescreen format like TV used to be) with a PCM stereo soundtrack, a few chapters and some stills and that's it. In fact the stills are absolutely useless - just a few screen grabs collated to a 2-minute video. This said I didn't expect much - it just seems incredible that someone has found a decent'ish looking transfer for release so I was thankful for this. Image quality is generally good but there are dust marks, sparklies and so on throughout but don't let this put you off - it is a million miles from anything I have ever seen before and very watchable. The colour is good and the detail in the shots is very good. I have been trying to post a screenshot showing a dust mark (or three) which is actually larger than the plane also in shot but it seems this is being rejected each time I try to post.
The release has only just made use of the extra disc space for a Blu Ray with film itself coming in at just 16.6Gb which is the lowest I have seen for any film but again, I am largely happy just to have the title released in HD but can't help but wonder why the distributor didn't use more of the available space even if this was to bump the data transfer rate.
I suspect that there are no available extras out there so the omission is understandable. Would have been nice though to learn something from the distributor about the release such as the source and what, if any, clean and restoration took place and so on but, sadly this has not been done. I have given 4-stars rather than the 5 as does feel as this is too much a bare-bones release for what is a premium price point but it was a close call.
Overall, I recommend this highly - it is by far the best quality you can presently see this movie.
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