1984 CBS/Fox Hi-Fi VHS: Very clean and free of distortion and other artefacts, but this lacks high-frequency detail.
1988 Warner LaserDisc [NJEL-99206]: Similar to the CBS/Fox VHS, but mushier and with even less high-frequency detail.
1990 MGM LaserDisc [ML101741]: Very detailed and quite natural-sounding, with no obvious heavy-handed mastering. Every subsequent mono track resembles this one.
1992 MGM Hi-Fi VHS: Brighter than the 1990 LaserDisc but otherwise similar. The 1990 LD can be EQ-matched to this pretty easily.
1993 Warner LaserDisc [NJEL-52732]: Like the 1990 LaserDisc.
1993 MGM LaserDisc [ML104539] - Connery Collection: Identical to the 1990 LaserDisc.
2000 MGM DVD - Special Edition: Slightly different EQ than the 1990 LaserDisc.
2006 MGM DVD - Ultimate Edition: Slightly different EQ than the 1990 LaserDisc, possibly with further noise reduction. The end credits sound significantly worse and have been made much louder.
2012 MGM Blu-ray: Slightly different EQ than the 1990 LaserDisc. I think it fares quite well (certainly much better than the previous film's BD mono track), but the LaserDisc sounds marginally more natural. A ~3-minute segment about an hour in is much louder than the rest of the film.
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