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Spartacus (North), Lonely Are The Brave (Goldsmith), Gunfight At The O.K. Corral (Tiomkin), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Rozsa), The Fury (Williams), Saturn 3 (Bernstein), and that is just off the top of my head and listing no composer twice. (I mean, all the Goldsmith scores for Douglas' movies were great.)
Kirk Douglas was one of the true Hollywood icons, a larger than life screen legend. He had a very long career, reaching back to Hollywood's Golden Age, and he was a big star, so no surprise that some of the movies he starred in had outstandingly good movie scores by some of Hollywood's finest composers. Great he had such a long life. Cheers to you, Kirk Douglas, may you rest in peace.
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...also I quite like some of Holocaust 2000,though not all.
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I'd have to pick THE VIKINGS, as it's probably the first film I ever saw him in (on the telly) and the music (even as a little kid) had me singing it all the way back when, before I even knew there WAS A THING called Film Music.
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Feb 6, 2020 - 4:38 AM
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Tall Guy
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Lots of course to choose from, and I give honourable mentions to The Fury and the part-brilliant part-maddening Spartacus. However, my favourites are two lesser-known films with Morricone scores - Holocaust 2000 and A Man to Respect (aka The Master Touch).
Neither film is an unalloyed classic - Holocaust 2000 is part Omen-derivative, part unintentional comedy (Anthony Quayle trips over a vertical doorframe), and A Man to Respect has an AVTAK-type car chase for very little reason, but both are fascinating listens, tense, jazzy and far from your everyday film score.
RIP Kirk Douglas, you put lots of bums on seats, and that's all one can ask of an actor.
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Difficult one - so many great scores. But as soundtracks I'd probably rate them (for listenability replay value) as something like this -
LUST FOR LIFE (Love the film too)
LONELY ARE THE BRAVE (Again, excellent film as well)
IN HARM'S WAY
SPARTACUS (which I'm not drawn to as much as, say, CLEOPATRA - but Kirk wasn't in that one)
From his TV work, I'm really glad Intrada put out THE MONEYCHANGERS. I love that.
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So the Williams fans choose The Fury, the Jerry fans choose Lonely are the Brave, and everyone else chooses Spartacus or Lust for life !!
My choice...."No talking in the galley, slave!"
As you would expect from a man who starred in 75 films throughout the best decades of film music, literally dozens to choose from and probably very few duffers.
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