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I gotta watch this one again, but remember it as
Raw Deal has been put through the ringer more than a middle-aged Thai whore on home video. This HBO/Cannon clamshell is the first with just HBO Video later releasing a "regular" slipcover version. Video Treasures released a shit EP-mode version while Anchor Bay had a bareboned widescreen "Collector's Edition" tape in their usual black rounded clamshell. Anchor Bay also released a DVD, but both of their releases are incorrectly framed at 1.85:1 instead of 2.35:1. Fox then released two discs and paired it in a double feature with Maximum Overdrive. Given all that came after it, this first tape is the one you don't come across often and matches the other white clam Thorn EMI/HBO tapes of the era.
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I've got the double feature release (released by Phase 4, not Fox). The transfer doesn't look bad for a 24 year old movie paired with another 24 year old movie on the same disc.
In the UK, Optimum's putting this on Blu-Ray with a couple of featurettes (mostly on Schwarzenegger's career rather than the movie). Just wanted to mention that.
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