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I have had the Prometheus 3-cd set of Nic Raine's complete Dimitri Tiomkin score for the 1960 'The Alamo' in my cart at Intrada, off and on for the past 4 years. In those 4 years, various things had popped-up (namely money of course), to make me remove it from the cart. Finally, I ordered it and it arrived yesterday. This Tiomkin score has immediately moved to the very top of my scores of his - it's now my favorite. There are others of course that are terrific, 'The Fall of the Roman Empire', 'The High and the Mighty', & 'High Noon', as well as others. But this score is astounding! Doug Fake's comments on Intrada's website is accurate:"Vivid, close mike recording captures incredible detail, complexity of Tiomkin masterpiece."
'The Green Leaves of Summer' is argueably my favorite song written for a film. This recording by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Crouch End Festival Chorus sounds even better than the original recording. The Film of 'The Alamo'? Saw it once, that was enough for me. I'm not sure how exactly I can love a score as much as this one, and just 'write off' the film it's attached to, but, there it is. This massive score, and it's hefty price, are well worth the money spent!
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Gotta agree, Montana Dave, this is one bad-ass score given a bad-ass performance and recording by Raine/City of Prague Philharmonic.
As to the movie, John Wayne had stepped on so many toes in Hollywood during the '50s Red Scare (not America's first Red Scare!) that much of the press and talent had it in for him on this project.
I think this movie has highlights, just not a whole lot.
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