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I would like ask if somebody know why Michel Legrand didn´t compose music for Four Musketeers. I admire Lalo Schifrin´s work. Lalo Schifrin composed great score for Four Musketeers(I love Chase to the Convent,great action music and also Frozen Pond Fight),but I would like know what happend,why Richard Lester didn´t choose Michel Legrand again. I just hear Dirty business amongst the dirty laundry and it is also great piece of action music.
It would be great to have both scores in complete form.
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I love both these films and they definitely represent the every best adaptations of that Dumas COMEDY ever. Lester and MacDonald Fraser at their best too, along with 'Royal Flash'.
I suspect the answer MIGHT lie in the 'scandal' involving the performers' and technicians' fees ... Lester, in a clever bit of chutzpah worthy of Porthos or Aramis filmed both films together as one three hour epic (which would've been a truly great one) but saved on expenses by releasing the two halves separately, so cashing in with a sequel. This was kept from all the actors etc., who en masse protested. It may even have come to the courts. PERHAPS (I have no knowledge of this) Legrand refused part 2 as an act of solidarity?
Just a possibility. Someone out there must knpw?
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It could also have been a tight schedule on legrands part.
Also,from the dvd,a lot of the actors did complain,though Chuck Heston didn't seem bothereed.In fact he seeemed to admire their cheek.
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The producers, NOT Lester.
Pretty remarkable that Ken Thorne wasn't called in to adapt and arrange Legrand's stuff for FOUR MUSKETEERS.
Ken Thorne is a very talented composer in his own right, his work on SUPERMAN II is in retrospect quite good given the fact he had a smaller orchestra and less time then Mr. Williams had on the first film, so can we knock off the pissing on him for the moment?
As for THE FOUR MUSKETEERS, I seem to recall either seeing on the film or it being mentioned that he did indeed work on the film rescoring the Battle on the Ice scene.
I haven't seen the film in over a decade so I can't be SURE, but has anyone else seen him credited on that film?
Ford A. Thaxton
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I'm just listening to the sequel score, which I like (although I like Schifrin's Guitar Concerto, for which Schifrin used some material from this score even more).
This story may be apocryphal, but I heard that Legrand was so appalled by the quality of Schifrin's score that he offered to re-score it for free. Truth be told, Legrand's music for The Three Musketeers is infinitely superior.
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