THEMES TO COME, PART ONE

By Scott Bettencourt

I have included any film involving World War III or other forms of apocalypse (biological, religious, etc.) so in certain cases "the future" may look suspiciously like the fifties (On the Beach), sixties (The Last Man on Earth), or seventies (Damnation Alley). I have also included many films which may not be explicitly set in the future but which depict technological advancements which make them seem, at the least, "futuristic."

Titles in quotation marks denote television programs.

METROPOLIS
The film's original score, by Gottfried Huppertz, was recently re-recorded for a restored, two-hour version of the film. No soundtrack album has been announced. In 1984, composer Giorgio Moroder released a tinted version of the film, featuring a rock score which he composed. Songs from the score are available on CD from Sony.  More recently, both the Club Foot Orchestra and the Alloy Orchestra have written scores for the film.  10:12 of the Alloy Orchestra's score is available on their CD Silents.

JUST IMAGINE
Lew Brown, Buddy G. DeSylva, and Ray Henderson wrote the songs for this futuristic musical.  Hugo Friedhofer and Arthur Kay composed the uncredited incidental music.

MODERN TIMES - Charles Chaplin
16:59 was conducted by Carl Davis for the RCA import CD The Film Music of Charles Chaplin

THINGS TO COME - Arthur Bliss
31:58 of Bliss's score featured on the Chandos CD The Film Music of Sir Arthur Bliss, conducted by Ramon Gamba

DESTINATION MOON - Leith Stevens
Score CD on Citadel

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE - Leith Stevens
8:28 on the Silva CD Alien Invasion: Space and Beyond 2

ROBOT MONSTER - Elmer Bernstein

THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED - Ronald Stein

1984 - Malcolm Arnold

ON THE BEACH - Ernest Gold
Score CD on FSM, paired with The Secret of Santa Vittoria

THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL - Miklos Rozsa
11:19 on the Rhino/TCM CD Miklos Rozsa at MGM
 

"SUPERCAR" - Barry Gray
39:29 on the Fanderson CD Supercar/Fireball XL5

THE TIME MACHINE - Russell Garcia
Score CD on GNP Crescendo

VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter 
Score CD on FSM

PANIC IN YEAR ZERO - Les Baxter

DR. STRANGLOVE OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB - Laurie Johnson
2:33 on the Varese CD The Avengers

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH - Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter

"STINGRAY" - Barry Gray
6:10 on the Silva CD The Cult Files: Re-Opened

ALPHAVILLE - Paul Misraki

THE 10TH VICTIM - Piero Piccioni
Expanded score CD titled La Decima Vittima on the Italian Easy Tempo label

DALEKS' INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. - Bill McGuffie, Barry Gray

FAHRENHEIT 451 - Bernard Herrmann
16:41 conducted by Joel McNeely on the Varese collection Fahrenheit 451

FANTASTIC VOYAGE - Leonard Rosenman
Score CD on FSM

MONSTER ZERO - Akira Ifukube
Score album on the Japanese import Futureland label

"THUNDERBIRDS" - Barry Gray
30:02 of music on the Silva CD FAB: Music From the TV Shows by Barry Gray

THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO - Barry Gray
Score album on Silva

"CAPTAIN SCARLET" - Barry Gray
5:07 on the Silva CD The Cult Files: Reopened

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS - Akira Ifukube
Score album on the Japanese import Futureland label

"JOE 90" - Barry Gray
9:53 featured on the Silva CD The Man From UNCLE: Cult TV

PLANET OF THE APES - Jerry Goldsmith
Complete score album on Varese, paired with Escape From the Planet of the Apes

THE BED SITTING ROOM - Ken Thorne
13:35 on the composer promo The Film Music of Ken Thorne vol. 2

THE ILLUSTRATED MAN - Jerry Goldsmith
Score CD on FSM Records

JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN - Barry Gray
5:57 rerecorded for the Silva CD Space 3: Beyond the Final Frontier

BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES - Leonard Rosenman
Score CD on FSM Records

COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT - Michel Colombier

GAS-S-S-S - Barry Melton

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN - Gil Melle
Score LP released by Kapp on a hexagon shaped album; unavailable on CD

"CITY BENEATH THE SEA" - Richard LaSalle

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - Wendy Carlos
Expanded score CD on East Side Digital

ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES - Jerry Goldsmith
16:27 of score on the Varese CD Planet of the Apes

"THE LAST CHILD" - Laurence Rosenthal

THE OMEGA MAN - Ron Grainer
Score CD on FSM

THX-1138 - Lalo Schifrin
2:14 on the Warner Bros. boxed set 75 Years Entertaining the World

CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES - Tom Scott
Score CD on FSM, paired with Battle For the Planet of the Apes

Z.P.G. - Jonathan Hodge

BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES - Leonard Rosenman
Score CD on FSM, paired with Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

"GENESIS II" - Harry Sukman

THE LAST DAYS OF MAN ON EARTH - Paul Beaver, Bernard Krause

SLEEPER - Woody Allen

SOYLENT GREEN - Fred Myrow

WESTWORLD ­ Fred Karlin
Score CD on Chapter III

"PLANET EARTH" - Harry Sukman

"PLANET OF THE APES" - Lalo Schifrin
1:13 on the FSM CD Conquest of the Planet of the Apes/Battle For the Planet of the Apes

"THE QUESTOR TAPES" - Gil Melle

"WHERE HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE GONE?" - Robert Prince

ZARDOZ - David Munrow

DEATH RACE 2000 - Paul Chihara

ROLLERBALL - Andre Previn
Soundtrack CD on Varese Sarabande featuring the classical music used as score for the film, conducted by Previn, plus three original source pieces by Previn

"STRANGE NEW WORLD" - Richard Clements, Elliot Kaplan

THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR - Gil Melle

A BOY AND HIS DOG - Tim McIntire, Jaime Mendoza-Nava

FEMME FATALES - Georges Delerue
Score available on the Universal France CD Les Valseuses/Calmos

FUTUREWORLD - Fred Karlin

"HOLMES AND YO-YO" - Dick Halligan, Leonard Rosenman

LOGAN'S RUN - Jerry Goldsmith
Expanded score CD on FSM

DAMNATION ALLEY - Jerry Goldsmith
4:11 recorded for the Varese CD Frontiers, conducted by Goldsmith

DEMON SEED - Jerry Fielding

"FUTURECOP" - Billy Goldenberg

"LOGAN'S RUN" - Laurence Rosenthal

"BLAKE'S 7" - Dudley Simpson
3:20 on the Play It Again CD The A to Z of British TV Themes vol. 3

DAWN OF THE DEAD - Goblin
Score CD on Varese Sarabande

AMERICATHON - Tom Scott, Earl Brown Jr.

BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY - Stu Philips
Score LP released by MCA, unreleased on CD

RAVAGERS - Fred Karlin

STALKER - Edward Artemyev
18:52 on the import Torso Kino CD Solaris/The Mirror/Stalker

STAR TREK--THE MOTION PICTURE - Jerry Goldsmith
Expanded score album on Columbia/Legacy

DEATH WATCH - Antoine Duhamel
Score LP, La Mort en Direct, released in France on DJM, unreleased on CD

MAD MAX - Brian May
Score CD on Varese Sarabande

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK - John Carpenter
Expanded score CD on Silva

ESCAPE 2000 - Brian May

THE FINAL CONFLICT - Jerry Goldsmith
Deluxe Edition expanded score CD on Varese

HEARTBEEPS - John Williams
Limited edition score CD from Varese Sarabande CD Club

HEAVY METAL - Elmer Bernstein
The score was released on LP in 1981 but has yet to see a CD release; 5:38 of the score was rerecorded for the Silva CD Space and Beyond, while 4:56 was conducted by Bernstein himself for his Denon CD, Bernstein by Bernstein.

BLADE RUNNER - Vangelis
Score CD from Atlantic

PARASITE - Richard Band

THE ROAD WARRIOR - Brian May
Score CD on Varese Sarabande

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN - James Horner
Score CD on GNP Crescendo

BLUE THUNDER - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Expanded score CD released as a composer promo

BRAINSTORM - James Horner
Score CD on Varese Sarabande

"THE DAY AFTER" - David Raksin
3:46 re-recorded for the Edel compilation CD Highlander: Best of Fantasy

TESTAMENT - James Horner

WARGAMES - Arthur B. Rubinstein
22:04 on the composer promo Motion Picture Scores of Arthur B. Rubinstein

THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI - Michael Boddicker
The GNP Crescendo CD Greatest Sci-Fi Hits vol. 4 featured a synth rerecording of 3:29 of the score

DEF-CON 4 - Christopher Young
Score CD on Intrada

NIGHT OF THE COMET - David Campbell

1984 - Dominic Muldowney
Score CD released by Airship One

RED DAWN - Basil Poledouris
Score CD on Intrada

RUNAWAY - Jerry Goldsmith
Score CD on Varese Sarabande

THE TERMINATOR - Brad Fiedel
Expanded score CD on Edel

2010 - David Shire
Score CD on A&M

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