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 Posted:   Feb 24, 2005 - 9:27 PM   
 By:   The Shadow   (Member)

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 Posted:   Feb 24, 2005 - 9:49 PM   
 By:   Geoff   (Member)

After the great topic on DOUBLE MAN, let's go on with british stuff:

Any chances to get a release of WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL movie score?

This great Alistair MacLean based british 1971 action/adventure picture starring Anthony Hopkins and Nathalie Delon has a driving orchestral jazzy score by mostly unknown although very talented composer Walter Stott.


Still talented, but better known these days as Angela Morley!

 
 Posted:   Feb 25, 2005 - 6:12 AM   
 By:   Sir T.   (Member)

I have not heard that one, but I would settle for a release of his - Walter Stott - score for CAPTAIN NEMO AND THE UNDERWATER CITY.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 25, 2005 - 3:51 PM   
 By:   Melchior   (Member)

If I remember right, Morley rerecorded parts of both scores for her sampler, which was released around last year.

 
 Posted:   Feb 26, 2005 - 3:05 AM   
 By:   Heath   (Member)

I like some of this score. Parts of it remind me of some of Jerry Fielding's Brit recorded works from the same early 70s period. Something was definitely going on among the UK recording engineers of the time!

I wish we could get that sound back, but, like three-strip technicolour, it's a lost art.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 26, 2005 - 9:26 PM   
 By:   Graham S. Watt   (Member)

Thierry, those ideas of double bills sound fun, though FSM has, as you know, done a few. You mention MADIGAN. That's a great Don Costa score.

The mention of WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL would make a great "double" (HA!) with Ernie Freeman's DOUBLE MAN. Actually, I don't know if it would, because I only know the Main Titles to those movies, and the rest might be somewhat less good. But yes, THE DOUBLE MAN has a great Main Title. Wasn't this a Franklin Schaffner movie? Just imagine what a great score Goldsmith would have done. Or rather, don't.

Come to think of it, a great pairing for either the Wally Stott score or the Freeman would be ASSIGNMENT K. You see the connection, no? ASSIGNMENT K was a British movie about spying in the Alps. Stephen Boyd was in it, and it had great scenes of people skiing. But, above all, it had an absolutely GREAT score by one of my unsung heroes, Basil Kirchin. Tremendous brass clusters on the edge of jazz throughout.

Oh, by the way, did you know that "Angela Morley" is an anagram of "Real Manly Ego"? Michael J Lewis had a story about him/her in an old magazine of mine, but I can't remember what he said, nor why.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 26, 2005 - 9:43 PM   
 By:   The Shadow   (Member)

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 Posted:   Feb 26, 2005 - 9:51 PM   
 By:   The Shadow   (Member)

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 Posted:   Feb 26, 2005 - 9:51 PM   
 By:   Joe E.   (Member)

Do you mean that Walter Stott is actually a pseudonym for composer Angela Morley, who did WATERSHIP DOWN?

The composer was born biologically male with the name Walter Stott, and later had sex reassignment surgery, becoming Angela Morley.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 26, 2005 - 9:51 PM   
 By:   Melchior   (Member)

No, he did the same as Walter Carlos (who became Wendy).

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 26, 2005 - 9:54 PM   
 By:   Joe E.   (Member)

Wow, I miss posters like those...

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 26, 2005 - 10:00 PM   
 By:   The Shadow   (Member)

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 Posted:   Feb 26, 2005 - 10:04 PM   
 By:   Melchior   (Member)

That´s right, they have really a great collection of posters. Originals and reprints.

It´s interesting that they offer so many reprints from some really obscure movies. In Germany for example it´s impossible to find a reprint from the poster of Pal´s Atlantis.

 
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