1986 MGM LaserDisc [ML100059]: Side one sounds fairly natural (yet still objectively mediocre like every home video release of this film, due to underlying source issues), but side two has some strong noise gating going on.
1992 MGM LaserDisc [ML102545]: Heavy noise reduction all throughout, with the second half typically sounding even worse than in the earlier LaserDisc. There's some disc rot at the end in the capture I have, hence the odd spectrals there.
2005 R1 MGM DVD - Special Edition: Strong hiss reduction, noise gating, and limiting (but no actual clipping). This sounds terrible.
2005 R2 MGM DVD - Special Edition: This lacks the limiting and noise gating present on the R1 DVD, but it's still strongly hiss-reduced and therefore very muffled.
2017 Criterion Blu-ray: Like the R2 DVD but EQed more brightly.
Side one of the 1986 LaserDisc sounds the best to me. The fact that only its second side sounds bad makes me curious if the old Hi-Fi VHS track is consistently good over both halves. I think there's a good chance it is.
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