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Kritzerland is proud to present a very special 2 CD soundtrack release:
ONE-EYED JACKS
Music Composed by Hugo Friedhofer
From the moment of their inception, some films are simply destined to become legendary in one way or another and Marlon Brando’s sole directorial effort had legend stamped on it from the get-go. Based on the book The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider, the film’s first script was written by a young up-and-coming writer named Sam Peckinpah. It was subsequently re-written by Calder Willingham and then Guy Trosper. After viewing a movie called The Killing, Brando hired its director, Stanley Kubrick. By the time the film went before the cameras, Kubrick was gone and Brando was not only starring, but also directing. While the end result might not be to everyone’s liking, the fact is that the finished film is oddly compelling, poetic, and sometimes completely bizarre, and fully deserving of its legendary cult status.
The film looks gorgeous – it was the final film made in Paramount’s brilliant process, VistaVision, and the great Charles Lang was the director of photography. The cast also included Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, and the supremely weird Timothy Carey. There are some truly great scenes and some eminently quotable dialogue (“Get up off the floor, you scum-sucking pig”). But what gives the film a great deal of its luster and brilliance is the score by Hugo Friedhofer.
Sometimes the stars are magically aligned and a composer gets a perfect project, one that plays to all his musical strengths – Friedhofer’s music elevates One-Eyed Jacks in every sense – it’s passionate, beautiful, exciting, dramatic, luminous – and one of Friedhofer’s greatest achievements, in a career filled with them: The Best Years of Our Lives, The Bishop’s Wife, The Rains of Ranchipur, This Earth Is Mine, The Young Lions (also with Brando), The Harder They Fall, Vera Cruz, Soldier of Fortune, Seven Cities of Gold, Violent Saturday, Hondo, Rancho Notorious, Broken Arrow, and the list could go on for several more pages.
One-Eyed Jacks was originally released on LP by Liberty Records. Friedhofer had all the scoring masters available to him and from these he prepared the album release (any thoughts of a 2 LP set vanished when the film did not perform at the box office). Obviously because of LP time restrictions, less than half of Friedhofer’s amazing score was on the album. On CD 1, we present that original album program, remastered from the original two-track album masters, along with two alternate cues from the full score. On CD 2 we present Friedhofer’s entire score in all its magnificence, in pristine stereo sound. To hear this score complete is a revelation – and for Friedhofer fans and any fan of great film music, this 2 CD set is a must-have. This is the world premiere release of any of this music on CD. The booklet features new and great liner notes by Nick Redman.
This release is limited to 1200 copies only. For this release, we are offering this 2 CD set at our usual 1 CD price: $19.98 plus shipping.
CD will ship by the last week of September – however, preorders placed directly through Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks earlier (we’ve been averaging four weeks early). To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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A sincere Thank You to Bruce, and all at Kritzerland for releasing One Eyed Jacks...my Holy Grail! I am looking forward so much to hearing this and to reading the essay and notes by Nick Redman. This is a great day in this collectors life, and I'm sure for all the other lovers of this great score. They don't come much better than this! Thanks once again to all the folks connected to this wondrous release, you have my deep gratitude.
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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.
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A sincere Thank You to Bruce, and all at Kritzerland for releasing One Eyed Jacks...my Holy Grail! I am looking forward so much to hearing this and to reading the essay and notes by Nick Redman. This is a great day in this collectors life and for all the other lovers of this great score, they don't come much better than this! Thanks to you all once again!
Given your avatar I knew you'd be pleased 
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Fabulous release - one of my favourite Friedhofer's!
Now if only Kriterland would put track times on their releases.... (and hopefully the booket/artwork won't be creased like many of their previous releases)
In all our years, I don't know that I've ever actually heard of anyone receiving a creased booklet. Go know.
CD two, for those who are interested, runs just under seventy-five minutes. The two alternate tracks wouldn't fit on CD 2 so we put 'em on CD 1.
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I find it a bit odd there's no year listed in the press release (1961 apparently....)
Anyway, this sounds great (hissy, but all the music comes through anyway). I'm not as big on Friedhofer as many people here, but I do really like this (and it's VERY generous on the sound samples, even more than usual I think....)
Oddly enough, I'd be more likely to buy this were Spacecamp still around, but I may...hope...I still get to it before it's sold out.
The hiss (which is on the original tapes) is the hiss - it's mostly evident in the quiet passages - I never really mind it at all and we discussed whether to do away with some of it, but as soon as you do that all the lovely high end and air goes with it - so I don't de-hiss much. It's tape - I like it
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