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May 5, 2011 - 9:51 PM
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ToneRow
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Of course, it's great to have choices.
And disagreements are healthy.
I'm not saying Baxter's replacement score is bad. Rather, I support the original Italian version as definitive and consider AIP's re-packaging of the film and music for USA audiences to be indicative of commercial/economical mindsets.
Would American audiences have deemed the original LA MASCHERA DEL DEMONIO as unacceptable? Or was the AIP re-packaging of this Mario Bava opus a requirement for its distribution?
Sure, I realize that scenes were cut, therefore rendering BLACK SUNDAY ripe for re-score.
But wouldn't it have been cheaper to simply edit the already existing Roberto Nicolosi tracks to fit the truncations?
Re-scoring imported movies was not an isolated occurrence but part of a trend which Americanized original content. Recall a 1959 British item (made by Robert Baker & Monty Berman) entitled JACK THE RIPPER. The original English score was done by Stanley Black; however, for its distribution in the USA, decisions were made to re-score Victorian London with Pete Rugolo's jazzy band, perhaps with the hope to also sell more records (Rugolo's music was released on RCA Victor), at the expense of historical accuracy and to cash into the then-current jazz craze.
Also, I'll always consider the UK print of CRY OF THE BANSHEE (with its score by Wilfred Josephs) to be definitive version, despite the cuts AIP made to yield yet another Les Baxter rescore ...
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I just watched the dubbed Nicolosi version over the weekend. (So with the cut scenes restored, still in English.)
And then listened to the available tracks on Spotify. Which look to be the same as the CD mentioned above.
Quite a lot of music is indeed missing, especially the big piano-concerto-y love theme music. It seemed like it was all music from early in the film only.
But that is the sum total of what I know about this.
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