I just watched it this weekend. The score is really sweet and innocent and somewhat sad. I would like them to find a good source and clean it up for a new release.
My goodness this film is so tender and sweet and poignant. The scene when he is taken away to jail looking out of the back of the paddy wagon leaving the city, so sad. And the scene of him running to the beach and that last shot when he stares into the camera, aimless and lost, so sad.
I doubt that a current American soundtrack label would issue vintage recordings from France. If Disques Cinemusique hadn't ceased CD production, they might have been the most likely label to issue Constantin's 400 Blows. Music Box or Quartet would be more likely to do this than Intrada.
A masterpiece. One of my favorite Truffaut films along with The Soft Skin, The last Metro and Siren of the Mississippi. Jean Constantin was then asked to score Shoot the Piano Player but wasn't available, Maurice Le Roux (composer of Les Mistons) declined then the producer asked Georges Delerue to score the film....
