Mark Olivarez

INTRADA
Announces:



FIVE DAYS FROM HOME
Composed and Conducted by BILL CONTI
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 240

For the 1978 film Five Days from Home, star and director by George Peppard sought out composer Bill Conti because he loved the composer’s music for Rocky. Peppard wanted the inspirational sound from the hit boxing film for his picture (and the success and radio play promotion that went with it!) Conti wrote a lonely, tragic trumpet theme for the unfairly vilified Pryor, a melody that urgently echoes almost into a fugue in the main theme, while passages of anxiety accompany Pryor as he sneaks around at night. A bit of funk comes in the form of a reverberating plucked effect, keyboard, and electric guitar and action arrives, disco-dipped, showcasing Conti's diversity of style. Additionally, Conti was asked to provide three songs for the soundtrack album, with lyrics by Norman “Killing Me Softly” Gimbel, as well as disco versions of the film’s themes.

Conti’s music went on to have other lives. One was unsolicited, when the 1979 Sophia Loren film Firepower used the main theme in its trailers and ads. The other came with a polite phone call from Robin Leach, who asked Conti if he could use the disco instrumental version of “Come With Me Now” for his new show, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

For this expanded release, Intrada retrieved the original multi-track masters stored at Universal Studios, not only recreating the original album program but expanding some of the more dramatic score that had been absent from the original release, adding five more cues to the program.

Thomas Pryor (Peppard) is an escaped convict from a Louisiana prison—running, swimming, driving, rowing, horseback riding, and flying across the country to California to be with his critically injured son. For five days, Pryor is hunted by cops in each state under the direction of prescient Inspector Markley (Neville Brand). Leaving IOUs for every stolen item along the way, fighting but injuring no one, recruiting a beagle puppy companion, and even rescuing a family from a burning house, Pryor proves that his breakneck spree is just a desperate commute home and that underneath his prison blues is a heart of gold.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 240
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A Goldsmith / Sinatra 2 for 1.

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INTRADA
Announces:



VON RYAN'S EXPRESS/THE DETECTIVE
Composed and Conducted by JERRY GOLDSMITH
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 232

Following Intrada's previous Jerry Goldsmith double-header from 20th Century Fox, Shock Treatment/Fate is the Hunter, Intrada now presents Von Ryan's Express/The Detective. Up first on this sparkling release is one of Goldsmith’s grittier scores -- The Detective. Frank Sinatra stars as Joe Leland, a wised-up but honest New York City cop freighted with problems both personal and professional. The case he’s working is particularly nasty: the gay son of a city bigwig has been found murdered, and Joe must deal with the grotesque homophobia of his fellow cops, the just-wrap-it-up attitude of his boss, and the too-easily obtained confession of a deeply damaged psychotic. Goldsmith attacks this lurid material with intelligence and restraint, beginning with a main title theme that displays superb muscularity: soaring trumpet, layered with a dirty, buzzing guitar line and crying strings.

Sinatra also stars in Von Ryan's Express, playing Colonel Joe Ryan, an American flyer who, after being shot down in Italy, suddenly finds himself the highest ranking officer at a miserable prison camp. This does not sit well with his mostly British fellow prisoners, particularly when Ryan shows more interest in taking care of the ragged, malaria-plagued detainees than in making what he considers futile attempts to escape. But when choice opportunity presents itself, Ryan initiates a daring mass escape by hijacking a train and fleeing with his troops through German-occupied Italy.

Composer Goldsmith's sparse score adds striking color to the film, with suspense, comedy, and sheer drama. Goldsmith signatures are everywhere: the combination of racing piano and low strings, the electronic decorations melded with pizzicato strings, heartbeat percussion and insinuating vibes, the trumpet-led variation on a theme, the sprightly recurring march and its triumphant if wistful restatement at the end. All packed into a tight 26-minute score.

With a couple of exceptions in Von Ryan's Express, both scores are presented in stereo from the original elements stored at 20th Century Fox and debut in complete form.

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I highly recommend this one. An exciting, catchy theme, a thrilling action cue in Runaway and he uses the orchestra to represent the train in several cues. Plus a bunch of good music in between.

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Kritzerland is proud to present a new limited edition soundtrack CD release and our first ever Jerry Goldsmith score:

BREAKHEART PASS

Music Composed and Conducted by Jerry Goldsmith

Breakheart Pass, a wonderfully entertaining thrill ride in the old west featured a stellar cast, including Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, and Jill Ireland, along with a terrific supporting cast that included Charles Durning, David Huddleston, Ed Lauter, Bill McKinney, Archie Moore, and Sally Kirkland.  The director was Tom Gries, the screenplay was by Alistair MacLean (The Guns of Navarone, When Eight Bells Toll, Puppet On a Chain, Force Ten from Navarone), and cameraman was the great Lucien Ballard.  What they all delivered was a terrific adventure yarn, one with rousing action sequences, and one that kept you guessing as to who was really who and who was doing what to whom. 

But what becomes an action adventure movie most is its score, and Jerry Goldsmith’s score for Breakheart Pass is as good as it gets.  Goldsmith had worked with director Gries on 100 Rifles and the mini-series QB VII so they knew each other’s sensibilities well.  From the first guitar strums of the main title, Goldsmith’s score does what all great scores do – involves you instantly and sets you up for what’s to come.  His theme is addictive and propulsive – it literally makes you sit up and take notice.  From there he captures not only the rhythm of the train itself (which is a character in the film), but tender moments, moments of high suspense, character moments, and, of course, the adventure sequences, which no one did better than Goldsmith. 

Breakheart Pass was previously released on CD by La La Land Records.  This release is essentially that album as mastered by James Nelson, with some notable exceptions: In the film, there is a wonderful action sequence towards the end on top of the train.  Goldsmith apparently didn’t score it, but Gries and his music editor thought music would help there and so two cues were edited together for that sequence (“Runaway” and “Box Car Fight”) and we’ve recreated that edit for this CD and put it in the proper sequence – it plays beautifully with it.  On the previous CD there were two bonus tracks – some guitar strums called “Four Styles” and a trumpet cavalry call.  We have left off the cavalry call since it has nothing to do with Jerry Goldsmith or his score.  The four guitar strums are not really germane to anything but we’ve kept them.  But the biggest difference is the inclusion of a cue that was missing from the previous release.  The hunt for that cue took weeks – pulling every tape MGM had and frustratingly not finding it anywhere.  Finally, we decided to pull the D/M/E tracks and that’s where we got it from – it’s a great cue (it’s actually the second half of the cue called “Here They Come”) and we’re thrilled to finally have it available.  We include it in two forms – in the score program as a part two of “Here They Come.”  The “Here They Come” album cue was missing almost fifteen seconds of its electronics at the beginning, so as a bonus we give you the entire cue as it plays in the film, complete from the music track of the D/M/E. 

Breakheart Pass is limited to 1000 copies only.  The price is $19.98, plus shipping.

CD will ship the third week of May but preorders placed at Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks early (we’ve been averaging four weeks). 

 

 

(Click on cover for enlarged version)

• Click on titles below to hear a song sample:
 

 

• Breakheart Pass – Main Title
Free Ride/Hot Stove
• Medical Supplies
• The Trestle
On the Move/Runaway
No Word Yet
Night Watch/Help Yourself
• Who Are You?
The Casket/Box Car Fight
Make Up Your Mind/Leaving the Fort
A New Friend
• Here They Come Part I
Here They Come Part II
Raiding Party
No Entry
Last Battle
• Reunited/Breakheart Pass – End Credits

Bonus tracks
Here They Come (film version)
Four Styles
End Credits (alternate mix)

Now that FSM 250 has been released and not what quite a few thought it would/ should be, we can now look forward to it's upcomming release from another label.

Bruce Kimmel at Kritzerland hinted that it was in the works awhile back and now Doug Fake drops this little tidbit today at Intrada's website.

You'll be getting a spectacular presentation of The Ten Commandments before too long, so don't worry. When you hear it all, you'll elevate it from "a fine score" to one of the greatest ever. But in the meantime, definitely enjoy FSM's spectacular release for The Wild Bunch. Another one of the greatest ever.
--Doug

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Outside of Dimitri Tiomkin's The High and The Mighty, this may be one of the last true grails of mine, a majestic film that was part of my Easter Sunday for more years than I can remember.

Elmer Bernstein's score ranks up along other biblical epics such as Rozsa's Ben Hur, King Of Kings and Newman's The Robe.