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I love the album art and I regret selling it, but the music didn't do much to me. But perhaps it has aged better than I remember it.
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Best thing about this was the cover art. The movie was so tepidly received that I never saw it. Used to pass by the Cinerama theater in New York City, and still not see it. Finally heard the score years later, and found it unmemorable, with a cheesy song.
Cinerama foundered on movies like this, and CUSTER OF THE WEST.
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Jul 10, 2016 - 8:36 AM
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The main title featured images from the film, so it was basically a montage. I always thought De Vol's music theme, which I seem to remember was allied to the "Java Girl" connection with the Batavia Queen, was well executed. I can only say I agree entirely with the composer's execution of the MT. The on-deck footage from the ship is what makes the film memorable for me. It was a sizeable ship and compares well to similar films, such as Mutiny On The Bounty and Morituri, where a great deal of filming was done in such a way as to make you feel on board an ocean-going vessel. The convict escape sequence was quite memorable too, so the film has subtle good points.
The rest of the score is workable. Charlie's song is on the cusp. Sure it was cheesy, but the film is on the dividing line from when throw-in songs were a done thing to being entirely out of date.
The ostinato of the observation balloon being blown into the volcano crater, for instance, is a memorable part of the score. There is much to like because you don't see it repeated these days.
That art takes some beating - one of the best I've ever seen. It has the same kind of skewered-frame theatricality which was to have a strong influence on the later Poseidon Adventure.
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The man who wrote the recent(ish) book about Krakatoa started his author's talk by asking if their were any fans or friends of Bernard Kowalski in the audience, because he didn't want to offend them with how he was going to de-bunk/tear apart that director's film about Krakatoa.
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Anybody know who did the poster art?
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Jul 11, 2016 - 10:25 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Anybody know who did the poster art?
One web posting I've seen attributes it to Frank McCarthy.
Wikipedia says that among McCarthy's film posters were The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, The Train, The Glory Guys, The Dirty Dozen, Dark of the Sun, Day of Anger, Once Upon a Time in the West, and in conjunction with Robert McGinnis, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice and On Her Majesty's Secret Service, .
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Jul 12, 2016 - 8:03 AM
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Grecchus
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Anybody know who did the poster art?
One web posting I've seen attributes it to Frank McCarthy.
Wikipedia says that among McCarthy's film posters were The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, The Train, The Glory Guys, The Dirty Dozen, Dark of the Sun, Day of Anger, Once Upon a Time in the West, and in conjunction with Robert McGinnis, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice and On Her Majesty's Secret Service, .
Brilliant at capturing full range dynamism of a subject with a single objective view:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=frank+mccarthy+movie+art&biw=1280&bih=935&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja-O-Ciu7NAhVFCMAKHbqeBMgQsAQIGw&dpr=1
http://www.conancompletist.com/darkofthesun/McCarthy_the_list.html
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