Nice score. i love the end credit piece , also film brings out the diversity of the great Peter Cushing"s career, here playing a daffy character which he did in DR who and the daleks-65- Invasion earth 2150-66, and in a tragic smaller way in a segment of Tales from the crypt-72, He could play a cunning slyful character, a heroic good guy, a quirky man, a stoic man and a emotionally out of control man all in perfect ease.
Yes that score from Warlords of Atlantis was another good score from Mike, a little side note people might find interesting, In the summer of 1978, New York city had a newspaper strike that lasted a while, Warlords of Atlantis was release in New York during the strike and make shift newspapers were form to give millions of people something to read during that strike, because of the strike many believed films took a hit at the B,O, for sure the one week or two week smaller films like Atlantis.
That's a great poster. I remember when movie posters made me want to see the movie. They're just photoshopped close-ups of the Tom Cruise's head now. Other than the opening and closing Pomp and Circumstance type march this appeared to have an all-synth score (that would not be out of place in a Dalek movie), and one would think that re-use fees would be minimal.
UK musician/arranger Mike Vickers did a few soundtracks back in the '70s which featured the Moog modular synthesizer along with orchestra. Mike had one of the first Moog's in the UK.
I'm still holding out hope that tapes can be salvaged for Vicker's Warlords Of Atlantis too.
There's a simple but exciting cue for the scene featuring some large monsters (Roger Dicken puppet FX?) approaching a city. Nice syncopated brass and percussion, giving it a propulsive, locomotive energy. I don't recall the rest of the score, though.
I'm still holding out hope that tapes can be salvaged for Vicker's Warlords Of Atlantis too.
There's a simple but exciting cue for the scene featuring some large monsters (Roger Dicken puppet FX?) approaching a city. Nice syncopated brass and percussion, giving it a propulsive, locomotive energy. I don't recall the rest of the score, though.
I cut this together some time ago. You may like it.
That amazing main theme has been dancing through my head all day. Such whimsy and pomp! What I'd do to get the main and end titles alone. This would indeed make an amazing two-fer with Vicker's more straight-forward orchestral adventure score to WARLORDS OF ATLANTIS.
Surely SOMEONE out there knows of the whereabouts of the master tapes...?
Surely SOMEONE out there knows of the whereabouts of the master tapes...?
I would suggest that any label interested in releasing this score that hasn't asked MGM about it in the last year and a half or so might want to ask again . . .
I would suggest that any label interested in releasing this score that hasn't asked MGM about it in the last year and a half or so might want to ask again . . .
If you're pulling our leg, I'm totally gonna shove you in the sandbox at lunch.
Surely SOMEONE out there knows of the whereabouts of the master tapes...?
I would suggest that any label interested in releasing this score that hasn't asked MGM about it in the last year and a half or so might want to ask again . . .
Sounds like you work at MGM or similar studio, know they have the tapes or stems (for Warlords Of Atlantis, not Earths Core), but for some reason dont want to be explicit. Some studios have soundtrack divisions because they know there's a market, so there's no need to be a soundtrack "whistleblower."
