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Needless to say, it's been very hard not to acknowledge it was this, but I'm glad the Jacks' out of the bag. I love this score so much and it's taken a really long time to make it happen, but here it is and, as I hope you'll hear from the audio clips (which are mp3s and obviously not as good as the CD itself), it sounds pretty amazing. This is my second favorite Friedhofer score (after Best Years) and one of my ten favorite scores of all time.
Thank you SO much Bruce for making this happen. If Best Years didn't exist, this would probably be considered Friedhofer's magnum opus. Could you tell us a little bit more about how this release came about? Obviously in the other thread a lot of people doubted it was One-Eyed Jacks because the original tracks were thought to be lost and the rights to the score (like the film) were in question...and just to be sure, your CD does have the complete score for the original full length of the film? Lots of this music is being heard for the first time, right? This is major front page film music news if so!
Thanks also for preserving the sound of the recording and also for involving Nick Redman for more extensive liner notes than your releases usually have.
Now one last greedy question: I'm broke. Any chance I could have a free copy since I was the first to dare guessing One-Eyed Jacks in the other thread? 
(OMG, Nevada Smith could be it but what about...One Eyed Jacks?! If Hugo scored the original cut of the film I suspect his score could spread across two CDs!)
Yavar
I've written a note about the release on the site that contains a lot of information. CD 2 contains the entire score - it's about thirty-five minutes more material than the LP program and that's a lot of great minutes, I can tell you. With the two alternates, it came out to over eighty minutes of incredible Friedhofer.
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The movie is also streaming on Netflix Will watch soon.
I've tried watching the Netflix version. Just read the comments on the site itself -- it's the same horrible transfer available on the DVDs.
Yavar
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Oh, and in all my excitement over this one, I forgot to mention… what a bargain! Thanks for the price break, too!
For about three days it was going to be our standard bargain 2CD price of 22.98, but at the last minute I just decided to make it a no-brainer
It is moving very fast. Kritzerland will be sold out today, I think I can say that with a certainty.
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The movie is also streaming on Netflix Will watch soon.
I've tried watching the Netflix version. Just read the comments on the site itself -- it's the same horrible transfer available on the DVDs.
Yavar
The only halfway decent transfer this film has had was the laserdisc - and half the DVDs out there used that - they didn't use it well, but they used it. If there were to be a beautiful transfer done then anyone could use it.
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I know that the fact we don't put track timings on the CD tray cards is irksome to a handful of people. As I've stated before, I don't like them and that's why we don't do them. However, starting with this release, we'll have the track timings available to copy or download on the site. They'll be up at some point today.
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I've written a note about the release on the site that contains a lot of information. CD 2 contains the entire score - it's about thirty-five minutes more material than the LP program and that's a lot of great minutes, I can tell you. With the two alternates, it came out to over eighty minutes of incredible Friedhofer.
I know. I read your note (see my nudge above about the alternate main title you mention). I was just wondering if there was an interesting story* behind the original tracks to this still managing to exist, given that the film wasn't done by a major studio and Friedhofer in general usually seems so unlucky when it comes to his scores surviving (especially in complete form).
Yavar
*You know, one like the story behind the original Islands in the Stream recording surviving -- is One-Eyed Jacks another one we can thank you for it even *existing* today, much less getting a release? (Who had the rights to the complete score, by the way?) Or did Nick Redman perhaps have more to do with this than the liner notes?
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The only halfway decent transfer this film has had was the laserdisc - and half the DVDs out there used that - they didn't use it well, but they used it. If there were to be a beautiful transfer done then anyone could use it.
And Criterion seems to be the only company that will forge ahead and pay for a restoration for a film in that situation anyway. So I'm hoping it happens with them.
Yavar
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It is moving very fast. Kritzerland will be sold out today, I think I can say that with a certainty.
Fastest selling Kritzerland title ever?
Yavar
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Great release and also already ordered. However, I do also wonder if the original stereo tapes were indeed archived at Paramount. The liner notes say nothing about this.
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I've written a note about the release on the site that contains a lot of information. CD 2 contains the entire score - it's about thirty-five minutes more material than the LP program and that's a lot of great minutes, I can tell you. With the two alternates, it came out to over eighty minutes of incredible Friedhofer.
I know. I read your note (see my nudge above about the alternate main title you mention). I was just wondering if there was an interesting story* behind the original tracks to this still managing to exist, given that the film wasn't done by a major studio and Friedhofer in general usually seems so unlucky when it comes to his scores surviving (especially in complete form).
Yavar
*You know, one like the story behind the original Islands in the Stream recording surviving -- is One-Eyed Jacks another one we can thank you for it even *existing* today, much less getting a release? (Who had the rights to the complete score, by the way?) Or did Nick Redman perhaps have more to do with this than the liner notes?
It's nothing that complicated, thankfully. It just all worked out easily, once we finally did the license. Nick did the liner notes because he loves the film, and I couldn't think of anyone who would do them better.
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It is moving very fast. Kritzerland will be sold out today, I think I can say that with a certainty.
Fastest selling Kritzerland title ever?
Yavar
For our own site, sure looks like it.
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Congratulations on this release, Mr. Kimmel!
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