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It is indeed stereo (from the three-track masters) and the score is complete. It's one of my all-time favorite Newman scores and the quality is really excellent throughout, save for two slightly damaged cues that last less than 1:30 of the sixty-plus minute running time, but which we included because they were too good not to.
I've been waiting for this one since 1962.
Any chance of bringing out any more British musicals? I'd love to get TWO CITIES and AMBASSADOR.
Loved the GONE WITH THE WIND release; I'd forgotten how much they were able to get on to the one CD. I had the Japanese 2-lp set, as well as the 2-CD set, but I so much prefer being able to understand what they're all saying....
Thanks for all these releases.
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It is indeed stereo (from the three-track masters) and the score is complete. It's one of my all-time favorite Newman scores and the quality is really excellent throughout, save for two slightly damaged cues that last less than 1:30 of the sixty-plus minute running time, but which we included because they were too good not to.
I've been waiting for this one since 1962.
Any chance of bringing out any more British musicals? I'd love to get TWO CITIES and AMBASSADOR.
Loved the GONE WITH THE WIND release; I'd forgotten how much they were able to get on to the one CD. I had the Japanese 2-lp set, as well as the 2-CD set, but I so much prefer being able to understand what they're all saying....
Thanks for all these releases.
The first title I knew I wanted from Paramount was Love With The Proper Stranger - the second I wanted was this. It took a while to work it all out but I couldn't be happier.
We've got two more UK cast albums coming, but they're both UK versions of Broadway shows - both are wonderful recordings, though.
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THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR (1962)
Alfred Newman
I just can't believe it: I played the "Marianna" theme song (from an old Johnny Mathis songbook) on the piano this morning for the first time in ????
How funny. For years, Marianna by Mathis was all we had.
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Thank you Bruce. This is certainly one of the highlights of Newman's late period. I know this music sounded fantastic in stereo on the video releases, and I can't wait to hear it in the clear.
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This is the kind of music I look forward to. Thank you Bruce for returning to the "masters of cinema scoring". I will be there whenever you do. I hope this is a BIG BIG seller for you.
I hope so, too. It's certainly the kind of music I love, but then again, I wasn't coming of age in 1983.
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This is the kind of music I look forward to. Thank you Bruce for returning to the "masters of cinema scoring". I will be there whenever you do. I hope this is a BIG BIG seller for you.
I hope so, too. It's certainly the kind of music I love, but then again, I wasn't coming of age in 1983.
Pshh i wasn't even BORN in 1983 and I LOVE this kind of music (assuming it is a similar sort of subdued golden age romantic sound you've been releasing a lot of). I think it has more to do with personality than anything else. I can't wait to hear the samples of this release!
Well, that is heartening to hear. Even when I was growing up and fell in love with soundtracks, as far back as 1954 with The High and the Mighty, where I purposely stayed again to see the film so I could see who wrote that fantastic music, and all through the 50s and 60s, even though I loved the current stuff and I continue to love the stuff from when I was a kid, I was always interested in any classic film music from before my time and always wanted to hear about it, learn about it, and see those films.
But with each successive generation they seem to get stuck into their little cocoon of what they saw as kids or teens - one reads that here on these boards all the time. Nothing wrong with it, of course, but it's always good to expand one's sphere of knowledge. But sometimes it's more than a little disconcerting to see any 80s score sell out immediately, no matter how terrible either score or film, whilst some Golden Age scores languish (that has happened at every label). So, I'm hoping people will hear these incredible samples and take a chance because it's Newman at his best, and his best was the best there ever was.
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Hey, Bruce, how about a 2-CD legit HELEN OF TROY?
Gorgeous score, still officially unreleased.
Am avidly looking forward to COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR.
Saw this movie at the old Airport Theatre outside of Pittsburgh, the only airport to have a movie theatre.
TRAITOR had one of the vilest little villains, a reptilian member of the Hitler Youth, who's always taking off his circular glasses to hiss breath on them to clean them. Evil little swine.
And, then, there's the inimitable Lilli Palmer, in what is perhaps her greatest role, playing a woman of real compassion. Wonderful performance.
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Hey, Bruce, how about a 2-CD legit HELEN OF TROY?
Gorgeous score, still officially unreleased.
Am avidly looking forward to COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR.
Saw this movie at the old Airport Theatre outside of Pittsburgh, the only airport to have a movie theatre.
TRAITOR had one of the vilest little villains, a reptilian member of the Hitler Youth, who's always taking off his circular glasses to hiss breath on them to clean them. Evil little swine.
And, then, there's the inimitable Lilli Palmer, in what is perhaps her greatest role, playing a woman of real compassion. Wonderful performance.
I would really recommend the DVD to folks who've never seen this - it remains one of the most powerful films of its type ever made. And it's one of William Holden's best performances.
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Great news! Fingers crossed it´s remastered longer version and not the short one.
It is completely remastered, the longer version and not the short LP, and a couple of bonus tracks.
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Hooray!
Now if we could just have this film released on DVD in the U. S. of A.
Any pull, Bruce? 
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