Turisu said:

Apologies for the non-working link. Here’s the page I got it from: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare6/thething.htm

If you scroll to the bottom you’ll see the shot of the dog staring out the window in which it appears that this particular dog definitely has brown eyes. I’d be interested to see the LD color of this shot to see if it stays consistent with the one above.

Don’t worry, thank you for providing the new link.

Here you are a on-the-fly laserdisc capture: top taken from BD, bottom from LD (rough upscaling done with MSpaint):

As you can see, eyes are brown, and the LD colors seems better to me - no pinkish tint there. Still thinking that something went wrong when they scanned the film for high definition formats…

UPDATE:

Just finished to rip the italian PAL DVD - primarily to have the italian soundtrack; I was checking the video, and guess what? colors are really close to the ones of the laserdisc! I think to merge the PAL DVD and LD together, to achieve the “best of both (chroma) world”: even if this DVD is not anamorphic (sigh!) it has 360x194 chroma resolution, while the LD should have something that could stay from around 160x338 to 240x338 - more probably close to the second figure, if not even higher; while the HD-DVD should have 960x408 - but luckily human eye are less sensible to colors, so an high definition luma image with a lower defintion (than usual 4:1) chroma will be percieved as high definition image as well!!!