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Sol Kaplan I remember mostly for his immortal (and often re-used) suspense music for Star Trek's "Doomsday Machine" episode. I'm also very fond of the more subtle work he did on Trek's "The Enemy Within."
What is his next most noteworthy score? "The Victors," perhaps? He did score the 1953 "Titanic" . . . No Oscar, though.
He was also blacklisted for a while during the red scare, married Van Heflin's sister, and his son is the movie director Jonathan Kaplan. Interesting guy, with a distinctive musical style.
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Kaplan also did a fine score for the BORN FREE sequel, LIVING FREE. It is every bit as good as the original Barry effort, despite the producers'
obvious attempt to repeat the success of the first film's song--the Julie Budd LIVING FREE song is pleasant, but pretty much evaporates in your mind a couple minutes later.
Going back to Kaplan's days as one of Fox's second stringers in the early 50's, I've always been a sucker for his score to the Richard Widmark/Jeff Hunter forrest-fire-fighting epic, THE RED SKIES OF MONTANA. It has a neat little march as the main theme and some wonderfully "angst-ridden" underscoring for Widmark's flashbacks to a fire-fighting tragedy.
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This topic, in a round - about - way, has come up before. I said then, repeat now, The Victors is one hell of a score. Would love to have it complete.
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Another casualty in Intrada's catalogue due to lack of interest.
It seems a shame that the folks who've wanted Sol Kaplan's JUDITH on CD during the 1990s and early 2000s are either deceased or no longer able to collect Intrada's excellent 2-CD album from less than a year ago.
R.I.P. Judith ISC 277 (May 12th, 2014 - March 9th, 2015).
Sophia Loren is outliving you; (hope she got/gets a copy prior to this coming Tuesday)
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