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The first movie I saw her in--remember my age, now--was The Poseidon Adventure. My grandparents told me that she was once a starlet, etc etc. Though I never saw her as gorgeous or anything, but she was appealing in that "Star Power/Effortless Charisma" sort of way.
You know how good she is as faded actress Fay Estabrook in Harper. As Bob Wagner says. " She got fat!"
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Had to start playing the Bernstein Twilight album as soon as I watched the trailer. Actually like this best of the 3 "Harper" films - never enjoyed the others as much as some round here. Though seeing this thread will probably get me to watch them all again sometime soon. EDIT: Actually, watching the trailer right now, I'm not even sure I've seen The Drowning Pool, so now I gotta watch 'em all!
(I skipped the non-score discussion, as it was mixing too many twilights for my taste.)
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I would also love a CD release.
By the way, the novels by Ross Macdonald featuring Lew Archer are all excellent. I won't bore you with a dissertation, but if you like Chandler, Ross Macdonald took the California detective novel to the next level. I've heard that the Cohen Brothers got the rights to Black Money, and the Library of America has put out three hardcover volumes containing eleven Archer novels. Plus, there have been other books about Macdonald lately, one about his relationship with Eudora Welty. So the more interest in the writer and the books, the better chance of a CD release.
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Dec 16, 2017 - 10:57 AM
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Graham Watt
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Was the car chase cue in the film's finale included on the old LP? It's an outstanding, so-damned-Swinging-Sixties masterpiece that even the likes of Joe Mannix would want accompanying his car chases!
Just to keep things afloat, I'll answer that one, Jim.
No, I don't think it was. The LP was one I got decades ago at 58 Dean St, and it's no longer within arm's reach, but you know that the whole album is up on YT because you posted the Main Titles yourself, pal. The vast majority of tracks sound like source cues (I'd forgotten that André Previn played on it - when that one came on I thought it had been slipped in from THE SUBTERRANEANS), with only really the Main Titles, the End Titles and... what's that one... "Temple in the Clouds" (?) sounding like "proper" score tracks - and even then rearranged for album purposes (not that that's a bad thing).
I barely recall seeing the film it was so long ago. Anyone know how much music is in the film, and how much of it is dramatic scoring? How does that balance out with the source cues?
I'm only really asking because there are two cases I can think of (at the moment - There'll be more) where a CD has been released of the original LP prog coupled with the original score, and where (and this is the important bit) both complement each other to perfection, so much so that it's hard to imagine having one without the other. One is BULLETT and the other's ZIGZAG. Would the same kind of magic happen if the original score tracks for HARPER were ever released along with a reissue of the LP tracks?
I've said my piece. I'm cool now.
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I guess Harper falls under that tragic category of "Source music/easy listening 'soundtrack' album that was so common in the 1950s and '60s."