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It's hard to get accurate information regarding how many were pressed, but none of them ever "made it to market", to my knowledge, and its not first hand but what I've read in books. The only ones that are floating around out there are the very same ones that made it out by some zealous employees from RCA, from a handful to a box loaded with copies. This one tickles my imagination!
Time to go see what Varese is putting up . . .
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Actually this is my way of killing time until the Varese announcement. It was either this or questions about obscure Pino Donaggio scores.
Yeah, me too. It's getting late here on the west coast. Time to hit the hay.
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mrscott, the Alwyn Disk is worth having, but the film version of THE F.B.I. STORY still tops it for sheer drive, energy, and that great crisp Warner soundstage acoustic. I hope Chelsea Rialto/BYU does right by this one some day.
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pp312, you're not at all wrong. There are those who argue that Steiner's rah-rah score was meant to "play against" the film, but I rather doubt that. Kramer may have chosen Steiner for the purpose of irony, but what he got was yet another typical Steiner military
score that doesn't even come up to most of his Warner efforts. And, when I finally caught up with the LP in one of it's non-OEM iterations, I found it to be a totally untineresting effort, what with all the dialogue intruding over such bits of score as were included.
This is probably the most over-rated holy grail in existence and is of interest only to the "bottlecap collectors" and Max Steiner completists. Musically speaking, if you want anything from the score, seek out the Gerhardt Bogart disk. It's played better than in the film and sure as hell is a quantum leap acoustically compared to the RCA (or whatever) LP.
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I used to work for a man (now deceased) who managed a small record store in the late 1950's in Seattle. He told me that he received a couple of copies of the CAINE MUTINY LP for his store, but it was almost immediately recalled. He thought very hard about keeping those two copies, but reluctantly sent them back to the manufacturer. He remained in the record/VHS/laserdisc/DVD business until 1996, when he passed away. I was working for him then as the weekend manager of his store.
Reminds me of when I was managing a particular video store in 1982-83. MCA sent us a recall letter for the 3-D VHS cassette of CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. We only had one copy. The owner of that store asked me to send it back as requested, but he never checked to see that I had done so. Well, I didn't send it back when I removed it from inventory, but kept it for myself! I figured that MCA wouldn't bother to track down one copy from an independent store, and they didn't.
Oh, Mr. Black, you IS BAD. 
I would have done the same damned thing, too. And 26 years later I would be wondering why I still had the thing....
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