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Jan 6, 2003 - 1:51 PM
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joec
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I recently watched my laser of Sam Goldwyn's THE HURRICANE (1937) which starred Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall and featured a beautiful Alfred Newman score. The Pioneer laser featured an isolated score and effects track, so I watched the movie through twice, once with complete sound and again with only the score and SE track. The sound effects do not interfer with the music too much and the sound level is consistent through out. Has this score ever been re-recorded? Do the original masters still exisit? It would make a wonderful release, I am surprised this music has been ignored so long. Apparently Newman reused some earlier themes from MR ROBINSON CRUSOE. Nevertheless, it desevses some kind of release.
Interestly, the M&E tracks do not feature all the sound effects included on the final mixed track. Also I was surprised that the choral sequences were not on the M&E tracks. In addition, several sections which featured just dialog and effects, but no music were blank on the isolated track. Did the laser producers purposely edited out these portions from the isolated track? I found the whole expiernce quite interesting. BTW the HURRICANE sound crew won an Academy Award that year. The special effects also hold up extremely well.
Also James Hall, who co-wrote MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, authored THE HURRICANE. Sadly his son, Cinematographer Conrad Hall, recently passed away.
NP The Bishop's Wife
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"...cinematographer Conrad Hall, recently pasted away..."
That'd explain his pasty complexion before he died.
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Couldn't agree with you more about Newman and THE HURRICANE. Magnificent score! Best during the first half hour or so, with all those sweeping South Seas vistas. Oddly, there's no music during the actual catastrophe, but a load of it afterwards, and the finale is wonderful. Consider what the likes of this picture would have been, if filmed in 3-strip Technicolor!
Other isolated Newman scores on LD that may interest you include: STELLA DALLAS, THE REAL GLORY, THE COWBOY AND THE LADY, DODSWORTH, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, and THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR. If you can find them. WUTHERING and TRAITOR are masterpieces. DODSWORTH and STELLA are very good, especially their finales. GLORY is very orchestral, but somehow seems lumbering. COWBOY is negligible.
Of all of these, only 2 have appeared on b**ts, as far as I know. But they are all certainly worth releasing.
Because it is essentially a silent film, with sound added later, MR.ROBINSON CRUSOE is all music and effects track, with no dialogue, as I recall. It's worth having as archival material, but the sound is definitely from the 20's.
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Jan 7, 2003 - 6:24 PM
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joec
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Other isolated Newman scores on LD that may interest you include: STELLA DALLAS, THE REAL GLORY, THE COWBOY AND THE LADY, DODSWORTH, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, and THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR. If you can find them. WUTHERING and TRAITOR are masterpieces. DODSWORTH and STELLA are very good, especially their finales. GLORY is very orchestral, but somehow seems lumbering. COWBOY is negligible.
I have STELLA, WUTHERING and COUNTERFEIT in my laser collection. Believe it or not I never listened to isolated tracks on each (guess I never had time)! But I will be sure to do so. I am between jobs now, so I have more time on my hands. I did not realize the other titles featured isolated tracks.
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Weird. How about THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES and THE WESTERNER (credited to Tiomkin, but supposedy almost entirely re-written by Newman)?
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Thank you, Joe Caps. I'd thought the HURRICANE tracks sounded different from the actual film. I'm still glad they're isolated, though.
I'd forgotten about THE WESTERNER.
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