Actually there was an excellent re-recording a few years ago (for the 20th anniversary of the film) which was obviously dialogue-free. Did you know about that Bruce? There's a really inexpensive copy on Discogs at the time of this post:
https://www.discogs.com/Nigel-Westlake- ... e/10842745Of course, what I *really* long for is a *premiere* recording of the score Jerry Goldsmith substantially wrote (apparently around 75-80%). The written scores survive in the Academy archives!
http://collections.new.oscars.org/Detai ... e/713030621-3r "The Drawing," 7 pages
1-4/2-1 "Lonely Babe," 9 pages
2-2r "What Dogs Do," 2 pages
2-3 "The Plan," 6 pages
3-1 "The Yarn," 4 pages
3-2 "The Sneeze," 3 pages
3-4/4-1 "Destruction," 4 pages
4-3 "Mother and Son," 7 pages
4-5 "Christmas Dinner," 2 pages
4-6 "Ferdie's Gone," 3 pages
5-2 "Mistaken Identity," 3 pages
5-3 "The Boss," 16 pages
6-1 "The Bite," 2 pages
6-2 "The Story of Rex," 11 pages
6-3 "A Tragic Day," 2 pages
7-4 "Pig of Destiny," 1 page
7-5/8-1 "Ferdie's Back," 5 pages
17 cues total, some of them quite substantial! Interesting to see where in the film he stopped composing, and a shame he didn't get to finish the story. But even so...who besides me would be up for a Kickstarter to fund a complete premiere recording of this score? I frankly can't think of any other Goldsmith recording project that would get me more excited, unless perhaps his unfinished cello concerto "Quadrants" were uncovered!
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