Kritzerland has just announced the first ever release of Ernest Gold's score to PRESSURE POINT, the 1962 psychological drama directed by Hubert Cornfeld and starring Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin and Peter Falk. The disc will begin shipping next month and is limited to 1000 units.

Mark Isham has put together a suite of score cues from his latest film, Werner Herzog's BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS. The suite can be heard by using this link. 

Intrada will announce two new limited edition CDs next week.

Kritzerland's next limited edition CD (1000 units) will feature Ken Thorne's score for the 1968 comedy INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU. The film, made during the 11-year gap between A Shot in the Dark and The Return of the Pink Panther, was the only one of the original Clouseau films for which neither Peter Sellers nor Blake Edwards nor Henry Mancini were involved (though Clouseau screenwriter Frank Waldman co-wrote four of the later Panther sequels), with Alan Arkin taking over the title role and Bud Yorkin directing. The score featured none of Mancini's famous themes, with Oscar-winner Thorne providing his own material including a whimsical new theme for the inspector. The Kritzerland features the same cues as the original UA LP, which comprises the bulk of the original score.

Their Special Collection release, limited to 1200 units, features music from three war films released in the 1950s by 20th Century Fox - Alfred Newman's music for the 1952 remake of WHAT PRICE GLORY?, Roy Webb's music for 1951's FIXED BAYONETS, and Leigh Harline's music for 1953's THE DESERT RATS (which includes Daniele Amfitheatrof's prologue music for its predecessor, The Desert Fox).

Their other new release, limited to 1000 units, features the score from Cannon Pictures' 1984 adventure film THE SEVEN MAGNIFICENT GLADIATORS, starring Lou Ferrigno and Sybil Danning. The music was composed by Dov Seltzer, whose many other credits include Kazablan, The Ambassador, The Assisi Underground and Hanna's War.

10 TO MIDNIGHT was the fourth of nine collaborations between director J. Lee Thompson and actor Charles Bronson, a thriller partly inspired by the notorious Richard Speck murders, with Bronson as a cop investigating a serial killer who commits murders while completely naked (most of our readers will be disappointed to learn that the killer is male). The score was composed by Robert O. Ragland, who scored such Bronson vehicles as Assassination and Messenger of Death as well as such genre cult classics as Grizzly and Q. The soundtrack was originally released on LP by Varese Sarabande, and the Intrada CD features a remastering of the LP cues.

THE CHINA SYNDROME was the 1979 thriller from director James Bridges (The Paper Chase), starring Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas, which earned four Oscar nominations including ones for Lemmon and Fonda. The story concerned the coverup of an accident at a nuclear plant, partly inspired by the death of Karen Silkwood (later the subject of a Mike Nichols-directed biopic), and the coincidence of the film's release occurring around the time of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident helped make the film a boxoffice smash. One unusual aspect of the film, especially for a suspense thriller, was that it was released without a score -- just a main title song performed by Stephen Bishop but no incidental music. However, an original score had actually been composed and recorded -- by Michael Small, who had already scored some of the great paranoia thrillers of the 1970s, including Klute, The Parallax View, The Stepford Wives and Marathon Man. Intrada's CD, limited to 1000 units and already sold out, presents the first-ever release of Small's score.

Their other new release, limited to 3000 units, is a remastered and expanded edition of Jerry Goldsmith's score for the 1988 romantic thriller RENT-A-COP starring Burt Reynolds and Liza Minnelli. This release features previously unreleased score cues as well as source cues.