NEW FSM CDs:
Never So Few/7 Women and Tribute to a Bad Man
Film Score Monthly's new limited edition CDs feature classic film scores
by Miklos Rozsa, Hugo Friedhofer and Elmer Bernstein:
Silver
Age Classics: NEVER SO FEW/7 WOMEN
This doubleheader features two scores for films set in Asia. Each is
the premiere release of the complete score, in stereo, from the original
master elements.
Never So Few is a WWII romance/adventure starring Frank Sinatra
as the leader of a U.S. army unit in Southeast Asia. Hugo Friedhofer's
score features a dynamic main title with a throbbing ostinato and powerful
brass, and a mournful trumpet solo evoking the losses of war. Friedhofer
was no stranger to the war genre and provided a brew of wartime suspense
and also romance, as Sinatra romances the voluptuous Gina Lollobrigida.
7 Women is the last film directed by John Ford: the story of
women missionaries in China in the 1930s, starring Anne Bancroft, Margaret
Leighton and Sue Lyon. Elmer Bernstein's haunting score features plenty
of galloping passages (sounding akin to a "Chinese western") but also intelligent
and supple scoring for the conflicting desires of the women.
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Golden
Age Classics: TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN
Tribute to a Bad Man (1956) is a uniquely "Rozsa-esque" take
on the American West, one of only two westerns Miklos Rozsa scored during
his long Hollywood career. The film stars James Cagney as an iron-willed
horse rancher and is an early example of the "psychological western." The
symphonic score is superb and has long been a favorite among Rozsa admirers.
Rozsa was allegedly uncomfortable with the western idiom but his music
is a sweeping match for the film's gorgeous Colorado photography. The female
lead in the movie (Irene Papas) is a Greek immigrant, and Rozsa adapts
a Greek folk song, "Pandrevoun," to serve as the love theme. As the film
takes on an aggressive, psychological dimension towards its climax, Rozsa
utilizes his film noir style of brooding anxiety. All in all, a wonderful
score by a Hollywood master.
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