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Bumping this back because I'm watching the new Criterion edition of JUBAL and really enjoying Raksin's music. Anyone know the exact status of the original soundtrack recording?
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I started watching this movie a while ago and stopped because I felt like I'd heard this sort of story too many times. I regret it now because it was probably the prettiest Raksin music I'd heard, short of LAURA and AMBER.
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, but I must agree with others that 15 minutes in, getting a strong sense of Deja Vu here and the underscore isn't really grabbing me either. Maybe I'll try listening to the film without watching it, while doing dishes or something.
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I like this film and score. Grew up with both. Yavar
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I made it 40 minutes. A good bit more to go....
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I like this film and score. Grew up with both. Yavar Your parents showed you a "sex western"?? Progressive folks you had, Yavar!
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I finally watched this, and tracked the cues to "tape off TV." It's really great Raksin!
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"A David Raksin Western, who knew?" Answer: A fellow named Will Penny.
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Before Will Penny, he wrote Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964): https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/cds/detail.cfm/cdID/385/ And before Jubal or Will Penny, he wrote Across the Wide Missouri (1951): https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/cds/detail.cfm/CDID/411/David-Raksin-at-M-G-M/ Expanding our view to the unreleased stuff, according to IMDb, he was one of four composers who contributed (uncredited) to Frontier Marshal in 1939, and his earliest credited western score seems to be Fury at Furnace Creek, in 1948: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040380/?ref_=nm_flmg_com_64 So it's not like Raksin didn't have a decent affinity with the genre. Really hope Will Penny gets a definitive release some day...his last and greatest western score, IMO. Your parents showed you a "sex western"?? Progressive folks you had, Yavar! Before he passed away, my father recorded dozens and dozens of classic westerns to VHS for himself. I simply watched through them all as I grew up; I guess my mom didn't police me too much if it was something he recorded, though in general I was kept away from R (and most PG-13) rated films for some time. I remember it was a big deal when I got to watch Dances With Wolves around age 12 or 13. Yavar
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Yavar, you're maybe forgetting another Raksin western credit : A BIG HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY, from 1966...
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