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Originally Posted by ROclockCK
The Only Game in Town is a tough one to find much 'Net coverage for filmmusic, in no small part because it's had an almost non-existent history on home video (in the U.S. only a panned & scanned Magnetic Video VHS tape). If you're curious about it though, you can view the entire movie on YouTube, but personally, I hate watching anything with AQ and PQ that degraded...especially if its my first experience with the film. What does exist for this title as a kind of preview, is the following video retro-'tribute':
That should at least give you some idea of what it is about plus its overall style without ruining your pleasure of seeing it for the first time in HD. The film will be virgin turf for me too, but I do know it was a colossal flop theatrically, which has always made me curious how something starring Liz Taylor and Warren Beatty, directed by George Stevens, written by Frank D. Gilroy, and scored by the legendary Maurice Jarre could have turned out that badly. Like some of TT's other lost-in-the-vault titles, it might simply be a film which was misunderstood and ignored at the time of its release, thus worthy of reconsideration and reappreciation.
I'm in the dark with this one just as much as you are... 
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I remember seeing the trailer when it first came out and an old 16mm print years later. The greenish color quality is pretty much the same as it looked then. The original release was also much grainier than most films of the time. I'm not expecting the Blu-ray to look anywhere near as impressive as typical releases, even if scanned from the camera negative. The film also was not well received by either critics or audiences, though might be of interest for fans of Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, or George Stevens.