WOW! They start with Donaggio and end with the one score I've been waiting for 34 years to get. I won't even grumble about not using the original poster art on the cover. Family Plot was the film I trained on when I was learning to run projectors in high school (our small town theater actually still used carbon arc projectors) and I got to know this score inside and out because even when I couldn't see the film while I was threading up reels and changing the carbon rods I could always hear the sound in the projection booth. The same was true for Carrie, Marathon Man and a lot of great scores from that period.
I had a feeling this one was right around the corner when those crystal-clear recordings leaked out on bootleg a couple of years ago. Now I'm only happy to throw that away and replace it with the real deal.
It's not really a score I find that interesting (beyond the brilliant main and end titles, there's a lot of sneaking-around music), and I would obviously have preferred to see an album arrangement out of it, but that aside - it's an important score in Williams' history and it's great to FINALLY have it released.
Makes you think that SUGARLAND EXPRESS may not be an impossibility either.
Makes you think that SUGARLAND EXPRESS may not be an impossibility either.
Depends on how much longer Williams lives. According to Roger Fiegelson, Williams has made it clear that he doesn't want the score given a soundtrack release. However, not to be insensitive, once he keels over, there's probably nothing to stop it happening.
I wouldn't say goodbye to that compilation just yet, though...there are a couple of good suites from other Hitchcock scores on that one that don't have a proper release yet (STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, for example). So I'd hold on to it.
