This colourised version is a pile of poo! Agree wholeheartedly that colourising has completely spoiled the film. The one redeeming feature is that on my TV I could mute the colours so it was viewable in Black and White. Then it came up to 5 stars but beware. If you can't reduce the colour to B&W tones don't bother buying this one. Someone somewhere, sometime will get around to releasing the original B&W version, let's just hope it is soon.

This Don Siegel thriller of the Fifties falls prey to the utterly moronic and pointless practice of colourising black-and-white classics. When will the studios learn to leave well enough alone instead of interfering with the visual integrity of these great directors? Never have I read a review that praises this practice, nor have I ever heard an opinion that considers this an intelligent or effective treatment of older movies. Yet despite this, there are quite a few DVDs on the market that are only available in this format. If DVD manufactureres offered the viewer the choice of seeing the film in either black-and-white or a computer colourised version (e.g. the Laurel and Hardy DVDs) this would be acceptable. Personally, I would prefer not to see the film at all rather than have to endure this ugly presentation. An extreme disappointment.