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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN - Max Steiner   Last Post   Posted:   Aug 4, 2013 - 1:55 PM     By:   Bob S   (Member) Who else remembers this? A sweet, sentimental, but never saccharine family saga from 50 years ago. Saw it on DVD last night. The lead performances by Maureen O'Hara and Henry Fonda hold up well today. Max Steiner composed the score, and it would be well worth having if one could get it. Apparently a bit of it once saw the light of day on vinyl in 1978. Here's a thoughtful post from YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnDuEm54qlQ The movie, filmed outdoors by Delmer Daves in the Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is beautiful to look at, even on an old DVD. Would love to see it as a Blu-ray restoration. TV's THE WALTONS in the 1970s came from the same writer, Earl Hamner, Jr., but is only a pale reflection of the big screen achievement of SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN.    Posted:   Aug 4, 2013 - 4:30 PM     By:   edwzoomom   (Member) I certainly remember this movie. If I recall it was not exactly a box office draw but it played the matinee at our local theatre. It had a Walt Disney appeal. I am including a link to the Steiner score. It is a bit shaky on the sound but gives a nice sample. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnDuEm54qlQ    Posted:   Aug 4, 2013 - 4:43 PM     By:   Harrison Castleberry   (Member) I have the Main Title on a compilation of his scores entitled THE FLAME AND THE ARROW. The entire disc consists of new digital re-recordings by Kenneth Alwyn and the City of Prague Philharmonic. Great stuff ! Harry    Posted:   Aug 4, 2013 - 6:47 PM     By:   dan the man   (Member) Fine score during the twilight of MAX'S career, would love to see it release.    Posted:   Aug 4, 2013 - 6:53 PM     By:   cody1949   (Member) Would love to see this on CD. Best hope would be Intrada or Lalaland if they ever get around to music from the '60's.    Posted:   Aug 4, 2013 - 11:18 PM     By:   PFK   (Member) I saw the film in the early 70s on tv. A nice film and a wonderful score by Max. I too would love to see a cd of the score.    Posted:   Aug 4, 2013 - 11:29 PM     By:   Bob Bryden   (Member) Love this score. Would buy in a heartbeat.    Posted:   Aug 5, 2013 - 1:18 PM     By:   Traveling Matt   (Member) There's also a main title re-recording on The Essential Max Steiner Film Music Collection, which sounds very nice. Might be the same album Harry's thinking of. I'd like to see the film.    Posted:   Aug 5, 2013 - 5:22 PM     By:   Jim Doherty   (Member) I too really like this movie and its score. I'm a sucker for almost any late-period Steiner. For instance I'd love to get ahold of things like ALL MINE TO GIVE, PARRISH, or SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN. Ray, if you're looking at this post, do you know what '60s Steiner scores Warners still had? I know you've gone over some of this before, so apologize for asking again.    Posted:   Aug 8, 2013 - 7:59 PM     By:   Jim Doherty   (Member) Really? This thread was on page three so soon?    Posted:   Aug 9, 2013 - 4:35 PM     By:   PFK   (Member) Really? This thread was on page three so soon? I like both the film and it's score Jim. I think a lot of people are unfamiliar with the film and thus the beautiful score. Many of Steiner's late 50s and 60s scores had such a wonderful lush and lovely sound to them. The twilight of Steiner's great career. Nice to see at least a few people know and appreciate real music these days.    Posted:   Aug 9, 2013 - 5:20 PM     By:   Ray Faiola   (Member) Nothing from ALL MINE TO GIVE survives except a demo recording of the song. SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN only survives in Steiner acetates - about 20 minutes worth. YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE only survives in Steiner acetates, about 12 minutes; same with SUSAN SLADE. One cue from TWO ON A GUILLOTINE survives on acetate. Nothing on tape or disc from FORT DOBBS, RACHEL CADE, ROME ADVENTURE, JOHN PAUL JONES, PORTRAIT OF A MOBSTER. I have no idea what Fox has on CHINA GATE, which was Victor Young's last score and was finished by Steiner.    Posted:   Aug 9, 2013 - 6:05 PM     By:   Atham   (Member) I love Max Steiner's music in just about everything he's done with the exception of Spencer's Mountain. I watched the film a few months ago on TV but missed the opening credits. I was enjoying the film very much but there were a couple of scenes where I thought the music simply did not fit at all and sounded quite out of place! I remember thinking "who scored this?". Yes there were parts of the score that worked well so don't think I flat out hated it. But when the film closed I was genuinely surprised to read the score was by Max Steiner, a composer I admire very much. Perhaps I need to watch the film again and see if the score will sit better with me on a second listen.    Posted:   Aug 10, 2013 - 10:56 AM     By:   PFK   (Member) I love Max Steiner's music in just about everything he's done with the exception of Spencer's Mountain. I watched the film a few months ago on TV but missed the opening credits. I was enjoying the film very much but there were a couple of scenes where I thought the music simply did not fit at all and sounded quite out of place! I remember thinking "who scored this?". Yes there were parts of the score that worked well so don't think I flat out hated it. But when the film closed I was genuinely surprised to read the score was by Max Steiner, a composer I admire very much. Perhaps I need to watch the film again and see if the score will sit better with me on a second listen. Give the film another try Atham. I always enjoyed both the film and Max's very colorful score as well. Both remind me a little of Those Calloways. Maybe I'm the wrong person to comment, to me everything Max wrote is wonderful!    Posted:   Aug 10, 2013 - 11:59 AM     By:   manderley   (Member) .....I have no idea what Fox has on CHINA GATE, which was Victor Young's last score and was finished by Steiner...... CHINA GATE was recently issued on a Blu-ray disc by Olive Films. That would mean that this production by Samuel Fuller's Globe Enterprises is no longer controlled by 20th Century-Fox (even though his FORTY GUNS of the same year---also from Globe Enterprises---seems to be). IF music elements still exist.....and IF those music elements still exist at Fox (.....was it recorded there???) and weren't signed out or tossed years ago.....then perhaps it would be possible for a producer to round up the music elements and deal with the overall owner of an independent film like CHINA GATE---which might be a representative of Fuller's estate or attorneys for Globe Enterprises or even Paramount/Viacom who control the NTA/Republic library and have leased it to LionsGate and Olive Films for presentation on video. It's a long way to travel, but it might be possible, if a producer were to take the search time.    Posted:   Aug 10, 2013 - 9:00 PM     By:   PFK   (Member) .....I have no idea what Fox has on CHINA GATE, which was Victor Young's last score and was finished by Steiner...... CHINA GATE was recently issued on a Blu-ray disc by Olive Films. That would mean that this production by Samuel Fuller's Globe Enterprises is no longer controlled by 20th Century-Fox (even though his FORTY GUNS of the same year---also from Globe Enterprises---seems to be). IF music elements still exist.....and IF those music elements still exist at Fox (.....was it recorded there???) and weren't signed out or tossed years ago.....then perhaps it would be possible for a producer to round up the music elements and deal with the overall owner of an independent film like CHINA GATE---which might be a representative of Fuller's estate or attorneys for Globe Enterprises or even Paramount/Viacom who control the NTA/Republic library and have leased it to LionsGate and Olive Films for presentation on video. It's a long way to travel, but it might be possible, if a producer were to take the search time. I first saw China Gate on tv in the mid 60s. Always liked the film and all Samuel Fuller films. I was surprised to see both Victor Young and Max Steiner for the music credits. It's a great score, reminds me of The Left Hand of God. Nice song too. I recorded the MT and ET off tv back then. I don't think Victor Young did too much on the film but the main title soars like typical Victor Young. I really hope a cd producer can find the tapes, if they still exist, and issue a soundtrack cd. Perhaps Fuller's widow has them? Or?    Posted:   Aug 10, 2013 - 9:25 PM     By:   Elmo Bernstein   (Member) TV's THE WALTONS in the 1970s came from the same writer, Earl Hamner, Jr., but is only a pale reflection of the big screen achievement of SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN. So The Waltons was based on this movie? I always wondered, given the close similarities between the two.     General Discussion: SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN - Max Steiner    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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