Despite claiming a copyright of ‘1989’ on the packaging and disc labels, this appears to be released on January 1991, with the disc patents dating a pressing from April 1991. But since there is no ISBN present on the Barcode (which occurred on few releases from 1989 and possibly into 1990) there’s still a chance this was issued in 1989.

The ‘Widescreen Edition’ and ‘Digital Sound’ logos appear on the cover (since this release is indeed letter-boxed and in digital-sound), but seems more of an afterthought, considering it is only brought up on the front cover, and the rear looks like your typical RCA/Columbia release (and it’s seems odd they’d make a letter-box transfer of this film, instead of a well known production). Was this initially supposed to be an analog-only pan-and-scan release?

The opening of this disc starts off with an FBI Warning screen (which is unusual as it would normally appear at the end, and is the same one Columbia-Tristar releases use) followed by the LaserVision logo, which leads into the film.

The Columbia Pictures logo and opening credits of the film are slightly window-boxed and moved to the left, leaving some empty space at the right of the screen. After the credits, the rest of the film is presented normally (including the closing credits of the film), with this transfer cutting to a different source when the opening scene starts (with the audio sounding a bit different once the cut is made.)

For about half a minute, the opening shot flickers a slight orange tint before it is not visible anymore. There’s some small dirt speckles and dust visible on the image, but none of which gets too distracting, however the gate weave is definitely noticeable to some if you look hard enough.

There is a closing bumper for Side One, and both opening and closing bumpers on Side Two.