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Finally Fox unleashes Laura, but with middling results.... LAURA is a very popular and enjoyable drama. I've always considered it somewhat overrated, but it has achieved cult status, I think, mostly due to David Raksin's haunting theme that became a hit song afterward. Fox's transfer leaves much to be desired, but is certainly decent for a 61 year old movie, although not up to Warner or Criterion standards. Interestingly, after years of U G L Y packaging, Fox decides to copy the exceptional WB packaging by using original key art. Is this rocket science? If it worked then, it will work now. Good iconographic art lasts forever...glad Fox is taking this route now, but it won't make up for their U G L Y studio classics packaging. The saddest thing about this release is that it deserved some excellent special features. Aside from the commentary, we get none. Instead we get these AWFUL recycled A&E Biography specials from Fox's paint-by-numbers documentary department. I often watched A&E Biography in its heyday, and if I saw a really bad (poorly written and filled with cliches) one, I'd say, "Oh, that must be from Fox", and indeed, it almost always was. Too bad Fox didn't believe enough in this tentpole title to give it a four-star treatment. Don't get me wrong. It looks "nice" and its better than a Sony/Paramount/Universal/MGM bare bones classic...but Fox could have, and should have...done better!