I recently watched Otto Preminger's last film, 1979's THE HUMAN FACTOR. Its score was by Gary and Richard Logan, about whom I can find no information, not even as to whether they are brothers. According to the IMDB, this was their only film credit. Preminger ran into money problems on this film, which was budgeted at $7.5 million. While Preminger was shooting in Kenya, he learned that all three of his financial backers had reneged on the project, leaving Preminger, as producer, with millions in expenses to cover. To complete the film, the budget was trimmed to $5.5 million and Preminger contributed $2.5 million of his own money, by selling his house on the French Riviera and part of his art collection, including original paintings by Henri Matisse. Even with signed distribution deals with MGM in the U.S. and the Rank Organisation elsewhere in the world, the film failed to gross enough to satisfy Preminger's debts, and he continued to be pursued by creditors five years after the film’s release.
The film's score is sparse, and played completely on guitars. I suspect that Preminger did this to reduce post-production costs as much as possible. Here is the one-minute opening title of the film.
This caught my eye because I just watched a film called THE HUMAN FACTOR too. Only it was released just 4 years before this one, starred George Kennedy, was directed by Edward Dmytryk and had a score by Ennio Morricone. I was kind of surprised that two films were released with the exact same title such a few years apart.
This HUMAN FACTOR's score is also pretty sparse and low-key. I don't know if I would rush to pick up a CD if it was available and I usually like Morricone. I'd have to give it another listen.
This caught my eye because I just watched a film called THE HUMAN FACTOR too. Only it was released just 4 years before this one, starred George Kennedy, was directed by Edward Dmytryk and had a score by Ennio Morricone. I was kind of surprised that two films were released with the exact same title such a few years apart.
When I went looking for a video copy of Preminger's film, the only one that I came across with that title was the one that you watched, the DVD of which came out in 2006. I had to wait until 2013, when the Warner Archive released a made-on-demand DVD of Preminger's film, to finally buy it.
