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Apr 12, 2010 - 4:45 PM
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BasilFSM
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INTRADA Announces:
JACK THE GIANT KILLER
Composed and Conducted by PAUL SAWTELL and BERT SHEFTER
INTRADA Special Collection Volume 128
Fantasy films often call for expressive, classically-based musical scores to ground their fanciful settings, outlandish characters and special effects. The 1962 film Jack the Giant Killer is no exception. The film features over 80 minutes of underscore, nearly “wall-to-wall” music. Jack the Giant Killer required a rousing score bursting with heroism, danger, mysticism and playfulness. Composers Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter were hired to create a fairy tale feeling from the rousing opening credits march, the gallant fanfares for the kingdom of Cornwall, and the deceptive music box chimes for Cormoran before the creature transforms from apparent plaything to menacing giant. Shrill, clustered brass effects characterize the movie’s marauding, animated monsters; eerie, trembling strings and brass stings and a malevolent theme underscores Pendragon and his magic spells; a traditional Irish jig provides wit to the film’s rhyming leprechaun and spine-chilling, wailing voices underscore the film’s terrifying witches as well as the Princess Elaine’s transformation into an evil enchantress herself. Sawtell’s Prince Valiant-style title march
makes a particularly effective and warm theme for Jack, especially as it’s interwoven with an expressive violin d’amore theme for the romance between Jack and the Princess.
The story of Jack the Giant Killer begins in the kingdom of Cornwall, where the banished wizard Pendragon (Torin Thatcher) returns in disguise to bestow gifts on the Princess Elaine (Judi Meredith). One of Pendragon’s gifts is a music box containing a doll that dances on command for Elaine. That night the satyr-like figure grows into the giant Cormoran and snatches the princess. Heading to rendezvous with Pendragon’s henchman Garna (Walter Burke), the giant invades the farm where handsome and heroic Jack (Kerwin Mathews) resides. After a violent battle with Cormoran, Jack slays the the giant and his reputation is made. But that is only the start of the adventure...
The complete score to Jack the Giant Killer is featured on this 2-CD set, mastered from the original 1/4" mono elements in pristine condition and is limited to 1000 copies.
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 128
Retail Price: $19.99
AVAILABLE 4/13/2010
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.6567/.f
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I ordered one for me and one for a bud. 2 discs for 20 beans? What a deal. 
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This is just too slick not to grab. Two discs for $19.99 makes it even slicker.
Sweet!
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Of course....ordered at once! Thanks INTRADA!!
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Of course....ordered at once! Thanks INTRADA!!
This one's for you, Charlie! I know it's been on your list! Cheers!
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well actually I already had an unmentionable of it in decent quality but as is my policy...I'll always go with the official release.
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the Princess is most pleased...
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I've never even heard of this movie nor this score before.
And after hearing the sound clips, well, I gave SAE my $20 for it!
Speaking of $20 - that's all this costs? For a 2CD set?! Way too generous!
Generous is the word!
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Edward Small (ironic name for someone making a movie about GIANTS) apparently wanted to duplicate the success of Harryhausen's 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD and even used the same leads...Kerwin Mathews & Torin Thatcher. One of the giants bore an uncomfortable resemblance to Ray's horned Cyclops...but the animation in JACK (although I'd give it an E for effort) is nowhere near as effective. I missed this film for years...missed it at the theater when I was a kid because I was sick...always missed it on rare TV showings...then I saw the altered "musical" version on cable one day and said WTF???? You can find JACK on the MGM DVD for cheap at many Big Lots closeout stores. (3 bucks)
There are cues in the monster sections that strongly sound like Irwin Allen's THE LOST WORLD dinosaur cues. (Sawtell & Shefter seemed to be re-using some ideas in other films, like KRONOS and IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE-coming soon from MMM)
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When I woke this morning who knew something this glorious would happen? I had not even a glimmer of an atom of an inkling until I started reading some of the speculation threads this afternoon. The film really sent me into the stratosphere when I was a kid -- the stop motion animation when seen today seems a bit rag-tag -- but I still love it without reservation. The score enhances the film -- giving it grandeur, charm, and spookiness. A lovely and wonderful release.
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...and there was much rejoicing!!!!
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Edward Small (ironic name for someone making a movie about GIANTS) apparently wanted to duplicate the success of Harryhausen's 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD and even used the same leads...Kerwin Matthews & Torin Thatcher. One of the giants bore an uncomfortable resemblance to Ray's horned Cyclops...but the animation in JACK (although I'd give it an E for effort) is nowhere near as effective. I missed this film for years...missed it at the theater when I was a kid because I was sick...always missed it on rare TV showings...then I saw the altered "musical" version on cable one day and said WTF???? You can find JACK on the MGM DVD for cheap at many Big Lots closeout stores. (3 bucks)
There are cues in the monster sections that strongly sound like Irwin Allen's THE LOST WORLD dinosaur cues. (Sawtell & Shefter seemed to be re-using some ideas in other films, like KRONOS and IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE-coming soon from MMM)
I've never seen the film. First glance at the cover art made me wonder if it's a Ray Harryhausen deal. Went to the IMDB to check the special effects. Who the hell is Augie Lohman? Then I see he worked on so many great films over the years including Sex Kittens Go To College directed by Albert Zugsmith. That just about sealed the deal with me.
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Speaking of $20 - that's all this costs? For a 2CD set?! Way too generous!
Well they COULD have made it a single single if they wanted to. For whatever, Intrada decided to cost themselves more money (not that they haven't before, such as with The Black Stallion).
HAAAH? What in the HELL are you talking about?
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I believe Jim Danforth supervised the stop motion efx.
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