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First of all, if you love it do try and get the composer's name right  It's George Duning. For me, he is one of the all-time film scoring masters, and the fact that the CDs that FSM did were such poor sellers makes me want to vomit on the ground. I honest to God don't know what's wrong with people when they pass up Duning's stuff. Happily, I've released some Duning, which is always a treat for us and I would do ANY Duning score that came my way.
This particular score was my discovery of Duning, in terms of actually identifying composer's name with the music. I loved it, wore out several copies of the excellent stereo Colpix CD and was thrilled when Lukas issued it. Just as thrilling was the FSM issue of Toys in the Attic, another Duning score I absolutely love. His musical language just "got" to me, and then as I discovered all his incredible 50s scores like 3:10 to Yuma and Cowboy and Jubal, and especially Picnic, Full of Life, and all those great Columbia scores - there wasn't a bum score in the bunch.
His comedy scoring was great, too - Bell, Book, and Candle being the best of that big bunch, but I also love Any Wednesday and our release Dear Brigitte and Who's Got the Action.
But one of the great Kritzerland treats was getting to do The World of Suzie Wong, one of his greats. And if you don't have that one, well, I don't know what to tell you but you're really missing out, folks, really missing out. And if you don't have every title mentioned here that's available you're also missing out. Oh, and his Star Trek scores, for me, are the best of that series, especially Is There in Truth No Beauty. But I listen to that one and The Empath repeatedly.
And in the irony department, I did several episodes of The Partridge Family, the second of which is one of the most popular shows of that series - I have one scene that's sensitive and the first time I saw it when it aired I loved the way it was scored - and it was Duning.
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I didn't put Suzie Wong on the sale list, as we have very limited stock, but if anyone wants to act quickly, I'll do 9.00 for as many as remain. And Who's Got the Action is on the list, too.
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Mar 17, 2018 - 5:43 PM
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hyperdanny
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I'm not familiar with the film (I think I've heard the title in passing once or twice), but I've always considered THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE the first proper 'distaster movie', the way we think about the genre today.
Actually, there was a very gripping and very well done British movie from 1960 (!) called The Last Voyage, which is basically the same story of the Poseidon minus the capsizing part.
The main star were Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone, and it had a fabulous captain in George Sanders.
It was very realistic because they used a real, about-to-be-scrapped luxury liner for most scenes , including some of the sinking (I remember an incredible scene in the main dining room).
I consider this a legitimate ancestor of the "modern" disaster movie because, just like them, it had more of an ensemble cast in the shadow of an impending doom, whereas Devil at 4 o' clock had a more traditional casting structure , with one or two main stars, like many "movies with a disaster" before ( "San Francisco" in the 30's, for one)
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A sublime score, the nuances of which I've recently come to fully appreciate. That sweeping theme is a mournful masterpiece - the choral treatment in the Main Title hooks you then it comes to the fore in La Fleur, and those low end piano runs in Lava Trap - wow. I made my own cover as that banner ruined the artwork.
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