grisan said:

AFAIK the vast majority of PAL movies are not pitch-corrected. Especially in the VHS/LD era this was really uncommon. I guess I need to gather more information about this and make a sound comparison first.

It is true that the vast majority of films released in PAL format have audio that is simply sped up. However, the 1995 UK VHS releases were pitch corrected (ie the film runs 4% faster, but the audio retains the original pitch).

These are the tapes I'm talking about:

(Wow, coincidence - second result from a Google Image Search was from a site called http://www.haku.co.uk - turns out this belongs to Citizen (see this thread) who hasn't been here since 2006...)