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set those videos/dvd recorders people, anyone who like 70s thrillers, has not seen this or heard Schifrin's so-far unreleased score.
Highly recommended, mostly for Joe Don Baker's mafia hitman Molly.
"You just keep thowing your feathers, mister...before I put you in the hospital.."
Saw this around 1973 at Birmingham ABC, double bill with 'Duel'. Haven't seen it since so I did set my DVD recorder and look forward to watching it ths afternoon.
Thanks for the alert, Miguel.
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Just finished watching. Excellent movie, even better than I remembered. Lalo's score cries out for a CD release.
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Hello Miguel. I was on holiday until recently and just found this post. So yes, I'd buy a CD release of CHARLEY VARRICK. I know of six other people on the Board who would buy one. That makes, let's see... seven. Add nine lurkers, plus twenty-four hard-core Schifrin fans and two casual collectors who don't bother with message boards. And my brother. That makes it 43 if my maths are correct.
Record producers - can you retire on that?
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Not only have I seen CHARLEY VARRICK on its first theatrical run, but also own the dvd, and would gladly buy the cd. However, I would like to see other Schifrin scores released before this one. Maybe Schifrin's own label, Aleph would be interested in releasing CV.
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one of three Don Siegel film i am dying to see
the others are THE LINE UP & RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 13
c'mon Criterion or somebody!
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44, 45 -same old s-s-s-s-sixes and s-s-s-sevens Shaft, I mean Miguel.
I'm just thinking back (as one does of a lazy Sunday), and I believe that people are completely polarized about this score. We are aware of 44 or 45 people who would love to see a CD release, but I recall reading in the mainstream press the opinions of well-versed critics who loathe it. We could say "Bah- What do critics know?", but it caught my attention that some of them mentioned the music at all. Somebody said something like "the usually reliable Schifrin provides a score that is mere noise"- could that have been Pauline Kael? Dilys Powell? A female name rings a bell there. And browsing a book on Don Siegel recently, the author said that the score was nowhere near as good as the Siegel-directed THE BLACK WINDMILL as scored by Roy Budd.
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Aug 22, 2011 - 1:29 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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. . . I recall reading in the mainstream press the opinions of well-versed critics who loathe it. We could say "Bah- What do critics know?", but it caught my attention that some of them mentioned the music at all. Somebody said something like "the usually reliable Schifrin provides a score that is mere noise"- could that have been Pauline Kael? Dilys Powell? A female name rings a bell there. And browsing a book on Don Siegel recently, the author said that the score was nowhere near as good as the Siegel-directed THE BLACK WINDMILL as scored by Roy Budd.
For her, Pauline Kael spent an inordinate amount of space commenting on the score. After comparing "Charley Varrick" unfavorably to "Dirty Harry" (a film that she hated incidentally), she says:
"Even Lalo Schifrin, who wrote the score, falls down on the job. Maybe he got bored producing the musical trickery that makes directors look better than they are, or maybe his contempt for the assignment got out of hand, because he just throws in noise this time. When Siegel's gruesome sequences need suspense, Schifrin beats your ears."
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That's the one I was thinking about, Bob. Thanks for confirming my memory.
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I love the film CHARLEY VARRICK, but is there even enough music in it for a separate CD release?
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Are there any hints as whether this one is in the pipeline?
Thanks for any info!
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