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To celebrate the fantastic Intrada release of the film score recording from The Eiger Sanction, I decided to create an isolated video presentation of that beautiful soundtrack! As you might know, the objective here is to present the movie as John Williams scored it. We know a lot of music that can be found on the Intrada release was unused in the final picture, one of the reasons being that some scenes were completely deleted. Those deleted scenes are not available, which means those particular fully unused cues will not be presented here (referring to Felicity, Art Masterpieces, Hemlock And Jemima). Some other scenes have also been heavily shortened compared to the cut John Williams scored. In some of those special cases, I decided to edit the music (properly, I promise ) instead of having pointless minutes of black screen (thinking of Love Scene and Car Chase here). Anyway, I hope these videos will be a great way to show that this score is another masterpiece from John Williams and also that this release by Intrada is definitely the best expansion of the year (at least for now!) Main Title / The Microfilm Killing The movie starts with a great Main Title cue introducing the gorgeous main theme of The Eiger Sanction. The Microfilm Killing fits properly even though some minor changes had to be made. To The Dragon The beginning of the cue was totally unused in the movie, it is restored properly here! Up The Drainpipe The first and last 10 seconds of that cue were also totally unused in the movie. It was a lot of fun to find out all the sync points of the fight sequence, what a brillant cue! Love Scene / The Unlocked Safe This is an example of two heavily shortened scenes. Instead of adding very long black screens, I edited the music the best way I could so it fits the final cut and the result is working pretty fine! Pay attention to the little scene where Hemlock discusses with Jemima as it contains part of an unreleased source music cue Friends And Enemies Two little cues, both used in the movie and merged in a single track for the Intrada presentation are shown here. I absolutely love how JW scored that transition sequence when Hemlock travels to Arizona, in the second half of the second cue. Never Quaver This is a restoration of a source cue that is included on the Intrada release, and it fits great! Running With George Here we have three training sections, two of them were heavily shortened compared to the cut JW scored. For one third one, instead of having a blackscreen for the whole cut section, I decided to use footage from the other two training montages. Part of another unreleased source cue can be heard between the first and second training section here! Leave Me Alone Another restoration of a source music cue that was used only partially in the movie. Note that you'll be able to hear two other unreleased source pieces before and after Leave Me Alone. The Top Of The World Small modifications were done here to make the first cue fit better. What an awesome sequence here! George Reveals Herself This one fits perfectly! The Car Chase / Hemlock's Bonus Those two cues ended up being completely unused and once again I've discovered that the final scenes were much shorter than the music. For The Car Chase, I decided to shorten a bit the music to avoid having black screens, the result is pretty great! For Hemlock's Bonus, I couldn't find any way to shorten the music properly so I let black screens where I think the missing shorts are. The Eiger / Hotel Bellevue The beginning of The Eiger wasn't used, this restoration shows that the funny little flute bit is supposed to score Faggot (the little...friendly dog) running to Hemlock's car. Hotel Bellevue is a lovely source music cue, featuring the main theme, that was totally unused in the final cut. I attempted to put it here and it works really great! Anna On The Stairs The track on the Intrada release contains two cues both totally unused that are restored here! Leading The Climb / The First Sunset The first cue plays ends much more quickly in the final movie which made me think at first that the scene got shortened. After putting the full cue on the final cut, I thought it still worked great so here it is. The First Sunset is absolutely gorgeous, definitely my favorite cue of the whole movie. For this one I adapted some sync points so it fits better than the movie version. Sunrise A little cue that most likely scored a slightly longer scene. I cheated a bit here by making the sun shot (a bit) longer Falling First part of the track Falling And Swinging that was fully used in the movie. Here too I adapted some sync points to make it fit better. Swinging / The Icy Ascent Second part of the Falling and Swinging track that originally scored a longer scene where Hemlock swung a few more times I believe! The Icy Ascent, an absolutely gorgeous cue that was fully used, fits perfectly with those beautiful mountain shots. The main theme renditions here are breathtaking... Down The Ice Face / Freytag Onto Ice The next two cues score the crew coming down the mountain. Down The Ice Face was most likely longer in the initial cut while Freytag Onto Ice fits well, even though I adapted many sync points so it fits better than the movie version. Hanging By A Thread This is the final big cue of the movie, which had its middle section completely dropped from the final cut. More than two minutes of music are properly restored here, and the result is amazing. End Title A jazzy rendition of the main theme, ending brillantly the movie. SFX/Dialogue versions For scenes that had some of their music dropped from the movie, I created mixes that keep the sound effects and dialogue from those scenes to present them as they would have looked like with the music. The Car Chase Anna On The Stairs Hanging By A Thread