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I can only wish every cast was as strong as East of Eden. Massey, Harris, Davalos, Ives, Van Fleet, and the late Jimmy Dean. Special props to the geniously convincing scene where the drunken "good" son Aron (Davalos) breaks his head through a train window as he heads off to the war. James Dean's best movie IMO.
Oh, and legendary theme music.
It's a good one, beautiful cinematography. Jo Van Fleet was marvelous. I always thought it interesting that since they only filmed the last part of the novel it was such a strong movie. Rosenman's score is one of his best.
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One of my all-time top ten films AND scores. Many stories have been shared on previous threads, so this time I'll just reiterate that this was one of the rare instances -- including its contemporary, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER -- in which the composer was on-hand all during the shoot, not merely brought in after-the-fact to mop up.
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Nice try, shicorp, but I think Joe would have come up with something a little more fancy than that. 
Right about that, no doubt, but the concept is very intriguing. Somebody has those tapes, and they're not in terrible shape (so I am told). Both scores are tremendously overdue. I have enjoyed listening to the John Adams re-recording of highlights of these scores (not to mention those other things), but would really love to have the originals in a deluxe FSM treatment.
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I hate James Dean. I think his overacting borders on the absurd; and I despise the score to EAST OF EDEN. I appreciate other things about the film, though.
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My personal favorite performance of Dean's was as Jett Rink in Giant- I do think Rosenman's East of Eden is one of his finest works.
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God speed the day. We so often hear that thus and such score, for all its quality, will probably not be released on CD because the film for which it was written is not popular or famous enough to justify the commercial risk. That clearly is not an issue here: two landmark scores for two landmark movies whose popularity remains undimmed after all these years. What's holding up the parade?!
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What's holding up the parade?!
A bigger parade of Trekkers who dislike Rosenman's musical vocabulary because it doesn't sound like James Horner.
[Sorry for the silly answer, PNJ, but I couldn't resist.  ]
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Thanks for the themes, Leo. Happily, I have the Holdridge album. And happily, I have the re-recording double CD of the two Rosenman/Dean scores. I wonder whose arrangement/performance that is on Youtube. You saw, perhaps, the Comment from someone who says this is the only theme that makes him cry...
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