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I suspect that some of these issues come down to dupe elements that can’t be fixed without some digital futzing that would introduce all-new issues.

Again, you can't put something back that wasn't there in the first place. The production budget on Enter the Dragon was $750,000, which is low for 1973. It would be low for 1953. Compare that to the budget for The Exorcist [$10,000,000, and released the same year], and the old "can't make a silk...

Robert's hit the nail on the head here. Remember that Enter the Dragon was a co-production with Golden Harvest, and film stocks available in Hong Kong at the time may not have been the best. Any clean-up would have resulted in smeary grain reduction and artificial sharpening. It's clear that...