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A 1968 film starring George Peppard, with a terrific and unreleased last-minute replacement score by Heft.
https://ok.ru/video/2354186619419 (website is safe to use, at least in Firefox)
The Score:
0:00 in. Laid back jazz cue featuring tambourine and bass flute. (1:00)
2:12 in. About 3:25 in a swinging edgy jazz piece with brass a plenty kicks in for the main title music. (3:54)
7:44 in. The long-lined main theme acts as source music for a restaurant. (2:24)
14:03 in. (1:35)
18:35 in. (1:13)
23:35 in. (0:27)
25:05 in. (0:53)
28:57 in. (2:57)
32:54 in. Immediately followed by a rock source cue. Rather than split them up and calculate times for both, I decided to leave them as one lump for this thread. Obviously I would not remotely keep them together for an official release. (4:46)
38:20 in. (1:46)
44:14 in. Source cue. (0:48)
46:15 in. Another source cue, an arrangement of the above cue. (1:27)
47:51 in. Same as above. The cue crossfades into another source cue which also acts more as a proper score cue at the end. (1:18)
50:54 in. Doesn't that flute player look like it could be Avery Brooks? This source cue/song is by Percy Faith, indicating to me all the tropical island source cues are from his rejected score. If he was clever, I imagine his theme is re-worked into the source music. (3:40)
56:20 in. (0:23)
57:48 in. (1:36)
1:03:35 in. Possibly also left over from Percy's rejected score. (0:50)
1:05:41 in. (0:29)
1:06:50 . Another restaurant source cue using the main theme. The cue segways eventually into a cue proper. (4:20)
1:13:51 in. Rock source cue. (0:22)
1:14:55 in. The Marines' Hymn source cue. (1:13)
1:18:55 in. The rock source cue picking back up. (0:10)
1:22:46 in. (1:25)
1:28:51 in. Cliched Italian source cue for a pizza place. (2:31)
1:34:20 in. (2:50)
1:41:28 in. (1:28)
1:44:30 in. (0:56)
1:47:10 in. A regular score cue acting as a source piece, leading into the end credits. (1:16)
TOTAL ESTIMATED TIME (without source cues): 34:08
(NOTE: because some cues are crossfaded into source cues, I am estimating their time rather than going back and doing precise calculations)
TOTAL ESTIMATED SOURCE CUES TIME: 15:35
Because of how wholly different the source cues are in style from the score, on an official release of the score, I'd separate them into a bonus section. Not the cues that are essentially just regular score, like the opening of the closing cue and one or two others.
In June, 1967, when the film was being called "New Face in Hell" (a line Peppard's character says in the film, obviously a nod to the title which only makes sense to those who know the original title), Percy Faith recorded a score with a 65-piece orchestra. It was rejected.
Then Dave Grusin came in and became the second victim as the film was then being called "Criss-Cross". Read more about his experience at my Rejected Film Scores website:
http://rejectedfilmscores.125mb.com/list.html
A release of all three scores would likely take a three disc set. Sadly, no release of Hefti's score was ever done. An EP single of a different take on his theme, was released (it would make a nice bonus, if the rights can be had):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0xF-MPO8AI
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No, but as I recall, the estate has it.
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This score is fresh on my mind, as I rec-recorded select cues from a superior sound quality video for my own listening pleasure and then somebody else I was chatting with via e-mail had never heard it before and loved it.
I am wondering why any of the scores have not been released. Universal Pictures is listed as the sole production company and I was kind of hoping La La Land Records might do it at some point, but nothing -- not even a peep from any label.
Unless I missed something (which is entirely possible), Universal is still a go for releases and isn't closed off like WB at the time being.
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