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I'm really looking forward to hearing this new mix. I notice the improved sound immediately when I listened this morning. A difference of night and day!
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Tony Franciosa's turn as a Mexican is over the top, but it works for me, he really goes for it, & I think he brings it off.
Is Vito Scotti the bandito with the mouthful of really bad teeth in that scene very much like the one in The Professionals 1966?
Yes he is. It's a great scene, starts almost comically and ends very rough. He and Richard Boone work wonderfully together.
And I love Franciosa too - it really is one of his best performances. Especially his sudden but inevitable betrayal.
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I was in on this edition when I saw the news at seven this morning. Thank you, Bruce and Mike for going to the well once again on this one.
(Mr. Wrathbone, that is one impressive piece of software for dealing with flutter and wow--but for a retail price of $4,458.00 I should hope so.)
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Glad to hear this film is worth checking out. That will be next on my list 
But is it available on DVD? I don't see it on Netflix to watch.
Shout Factory released a blu-ray in 2013 with three other westerns.
http://www.amazon.com/Movies-You-Timeless-Westerns-Blu-ray/dp/B00C81AW8E/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1412623707&sr=8-3&keywords=rio+conchos
Greg Espinoza
I have that, and happily RIO CONCHOS looks & sounds great - unhappily, Take A Hard Ride, while it looked just ok from what I recall, sounds TERRIBLE - the music tracks have a weird distortion that renders it totally unlistenable (while the dialogue & efx are fine) - which I suppose means the entire
sound mix is really unlistenable! And since most people hate the movie anyway, you COULD
just not watch or listen to Take A Hard Ride at all!!!!!
But I always got a kick out of it, and Goldsmith's music is amazing. Get the set for RIO CONCHOS
anywya....
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Oh good, mgh. Now there are triplets
From left to right : Mgh, Joan and Sean !
Yep, and that's me in a GOOD mood!
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Can I ask a simple question? With what modern technology can someone produce a stereo restoration of a score recorded in mono? And if the recording was stereo in the first place, why did FSM release a mono version of a score recorded in stereo. Just asking before I buy my fourth release of that score.
Presumably because the mono tapes or tracks or whatever were in okay shape while the stereo were in poor shape, but now they've been able to go back to the original elements and remix the stereo presentation, is what it sounds like.
Correct. In 2000, the stereo tracks, save for what they included, were not salvageable - in 2014 they were. Just as two years ago there was no way to release A Place in the Sun or It's a Wonderful Life and today there was.
Is it possible to revisit The Rains of Ranchipur?
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Are you joking? The Rains of Ranchipur is possibly my favorite Friedhofer score and consequently one of my absolute favorite Kritzerland titles!
http://kritzerland.com/ranchipur.htm
And the price is a steal, complete and being combined with two other complete Friedhofer scores on two discs for only $19.95!!!
Yavar
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well, i guess Riotengine will hafta put off buying BAT;TAS for now....
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Are you joking? The Rains of Ranchipur is possibly my favorite Friedhofer score and consequently one of my absolute favorite Kritzerland titles!
http://kritzerland.com/ranchipur.htm
And the price is a steal, complete and being combined with two other complete Friedhofer scores on two discs for only $19.95!!!
Yavar
No I am not joking. And the question is a valid one. 'Rains' was in stereo. All of it. All that remains in stereo on the great Kritzerland release is a few stereo tracks. If Rio Conchos can be restored to almost all stereo as well as Demetrius&The Gladiators why can't 'Rains' which happens to be one of my favorite scores.
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Okay fair enough, but I suspect that Ranchipur came out shortly after Bruce had been making use of this new technology. If I am mistaken about that then certainly I'd rebuy a stereo version. However, even if that were possible I think Bruce would be unlikely to do it until the existing album sells out. You might have better luck with Intrada, since with rare exception labels seem to prefer not to revisit titles they've done themselves (ie. why Bruce released the superior David and Bathsheba, not Intrada)
Yavar
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Okay fair enough, but I suspect that Ranchipur came out shortly after Bruce had been making use of this new technology. If I am mistaken about that then certainly I'd rebuy a stereo version. However, even if that were possible I think Bruce would be unlikely to do it until the existing album sells out. You might have better luck with Intrada, since with rare exception labels seem to prefer not to revisit titles they've done themselves (ie. why Bruce released the superior David and Bathsheba, not Intrada)
Yavar
Since we do not know the shape of the 'Rains' tracks nor the schedule of the great team that's restoring these FOX scores I take the approach that 'anything' is possible until we're told it isn't.
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If "anything is possible" now I hope that includes Newman & Friedhofer's Mark of Zorro! 
Yavar
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