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Whoever was sucked in by that poster probably was probably surprised/disappointed by the military court martial drama the film actually turned out to be.
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Whoever was sucked in by that poster probably was probably surprised/disappointed by the military court martial drama the film actually turned out to be.
It's like the took the Dirty Dozen poster and said to the artist "Give us one of these".
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Aug 4, 2011 - 3:10 PM
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OK, so I finally saw this movie.
It was a crappy copy, both picture and sound, but I got the gist of it.
Well, it's not a terribly exciting movie. As others allude to above, the poster is really misleading. There is only one brief action sequence in the film (a NORTH BY NORTHWEST-like aerial attack), otherwise it's all courtroom drama. And not a very good one either. It's very predictable, performances are hammy and the whole thing is really very forgettable. Ryker is wrongfully accused of being a "commie traitor", and does his best to prove his innocence, aided by a lawyer who sleeps with his wife(!).
I know it was originally a 2-part KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATRE episode, but I have no idea if they made any changes to the film or if it's basically just the same thing.
And how many films with Murray Hamilton has Williams scored, anyway? 
The score isn't very spectacular either. The central 8-note Ryker theme appears over the opening aircraft shot and appears throughout as his leitmotif. There are also some brief bits of Asian flavours (it takes place in Tokyo during the Korean war) and a surprisingly Golden Age-like sentiment for the more intimate scenes. Personally, I think the highlights were the two source cues played on a jukebox in a bar. Swingin' jazz stuff. Then again, I don't know if they were composed by Williams, but they surely sounded that way.
Of course, I think it should get a release, but maybe coupled with something else that is also unreleased.
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May 26, 2020 - 1:42 AM
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Just saw this tonight. It is surprising that nobody has yet released this early John Williams score.
It probably has to do with the fate of most anthology shows of the 60s; they're either lost or a rights nightmare. I crave for Williams' KRAFT music as much as anyone else, but I've never read about any effort being made to find and release them.
As we've discussed elsewhere, the "Ryker theme" that I refer to in my 2011 post above is not actually a Ryker theme composed specifically for this, but a theme composed by Williams for the third episode of the series, "The End of the World, Baby", and subsequently inserted into the feature film version when they re-edited it, and added extra footage to the two-part "The Case of Paul Ryker".
What's peculiar, however, is that it took 5 years from the series premiere to its manifestation as a feature film.
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