Raoul Walsh's Pursued comes to DVD in one of the best looking releases issued to date by Artisan. Originally produced by Milton Sperling at Warner Bros. (which distributed it), Pursued became part of the Republic Pictures library during the 1980's (this reviewer annotated and narrated the 1992 Republic laserdisc), and was restored by the UCLA film department. The transfer at hand looks even better than the laserdisc did, and the latter looked very good -- every frame of James Wong Howe's photography has a deep, silky texture and reveals endless detail the more closely one looks at the screen. And considering that beyond Howe's photography, that screen is filled with Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger, and Teresa Wright (supported by Ernest Severn playing Mitchum as a boy), all doing some of their best (or most interesting) work, there's a lot to look at on every level one might care to view this disc. Almost as impressive is the sound, which gives full play to Max Steiner's score, though one wishes that the dialogue came out quite as distinctly; voices fare just a little less well than the music, though all of the audio (which has also been restored) is clean and mastered at a healthy volume, and any slight deficiency is easily overcome with a slight boost in volume. Pursued hasn't looked or sounded this good since 1947, the year of its release. There are 25 well-labeled chapter markers, which treat this movie with the respect it deserves; alas, there are no trailers or other bonus materials, but it's difficult to complain when a movie this good has been mastered this well. The disc opens automatically to a simple and easy to navigate menu with the "Play" command in the default position.