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Interesting, that the poster touts the screeenplay by then trendy playwright Harold Pinter, but makes no mention of the novel it's based on, by L.P. Hartley, as I recall.
I seem to remember it was a success at the he time. Beautifully done. Legrand's score was my favorite of his; though used sparsely in the film, it's memorable and effective. I found the theme on an lp, and later on a CD compilation.
Was there ever an official soundtrack relesase?
Aubrey is infamous for gutting MGM. He's the one we have to thank for dumping the music dept. archives into a landfill.
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For a long time, only inferior prints of this were available (to my knowledge), but we just watched this via Amazon. What a great film; I am surprised it is kind of forgotten. It holds up really well and seems like it could have been made yesterday.
Is there a story behind the restoration, or the discovery of the master elements?
Hi, Onya.
During the 1990s, I had gotten The Go-Between on VHS and the print quality was good 20 years ago.
Columbia was putting out items such as this (like The Pumpkin Eater, The Key, Repulsion, etc.) onto tapes by the late-'90s and their print qualities seemed good to me.
I'm unaware of any behind-the-scenes restoration processes. I think this information wouldn't likely be on a public message board, though, and may be limited by studios/property owners to a bonus feature on home video - if at all.
The technicians who work in labs to specifically restore cinema elements are the persons who could reveal the inside scoop 'stories'...
As for discovering films by Joseph Losey (and other international 'art' directors), I am around 25 years ahead of OnyaBirri. I began my art-cinema journey in 1989 by renting Ingmar Bergman films and by '90/'91 had gotten familiar with just about every director of 'art' films whose works were available on home video by that time frame.
If you pursue Losey any further, then you should watch The Sleeping Tiger (1954), Time without Pity (1957), Blind Date (1959), These are the Damned (1961), Eva (1962), The Servant (1963), Accident (1967), Boom (1968), Secret Ceremony (1969), Figures in a Landscape (1970), The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) ... and ... maybe even his 1973 version of A Doll's House (music by Legrand)
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Was there ever an official soundtrack release?
Most of the score - if not all of it - comprises side 2 of a Columbia LP. (Side 1 has an orchestral suite of "Umbrellas.) This also appears on the Legrand Anthology box set. There is also a shorter suite on "The Essential Michel Legrand" with a harp and harpsichord substituting for the two pianos.
I've got both of these on CD (the Columbia and the Essential) and also the 19 minute suite (longer than the one Onya mentions) again with harp and harpsichord on the Musicales Comedies double album. Especially like this longer one and the Columbia - works well to have two different versions, gives a different sense of some of the score.
Now I just need to see the movie on Amazon, added to my wish list - thanks for pointing that out, Onya.
Here's the Spotify link for the Musicales Comedies album version:
https://play.spotify.com/track/4OoQbKACR0nrBy4UJF3V7s.
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Am I misreading your post, or did you misread mine?
I'm not sure what you mean, Onya.
Your initial post states you've never seen The Go-Between until 2017.
I've seen most Losey films between '87 & '97, so my 'first' viewing occurred at least
20 years prior to Onya's first watching this film a day or 2 ago.
How are we misreading each other?
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Didn't Richard Rodney Bennett record a discarded score?
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