I saw that review but did not take too much from it. First off it was not a verified buyer so take it with a bit of skepticism I always do. Most complaints on Amazon rarely ring true to the actual movie. From my experience some people focus too much on details that matter little when it comes to actually enjoying the film. I have seen hundreds of similar reviews on films that turned out to be trivial self centered rants at best. This reviewer could just be making a presumptuous guess. I have seen black bars put in place to make it 16:9 to fit modern tv but original aspect is left shown within them. Again 'we' don't have the source to know for sure.
The original dvd was mastered from a tv master 1.33 : 1 which was altered from the original 35mm shot at a 1.55 : 1 and now this one Amazon states at 1.77:1. The real question is it an improvement of quality, my bet is yes and is anything we care about seeing still there, again I bet yes it is. Only movie here that I have seen that has a similar scenario is Pretty Baby and having every single version of that film I know that nothing of real interest was missing from the best source available even though it too was cropped.
That being said it appears there is most likely no original aspect available, as such what we are looking for is an upgrade to what we have and this would be that.
For some reason Amazon won't let me order this, all torrents I have found have not been seeded for a long time(dead) but I did see a listing for the full uncompressed file on usenet NZB(of which I don't use). Perhaps someone else can get this?
