This was Doug's comment from last year about the possibility of Steiner WB scores on Intrada:
"Steiner at WB is on our list, as is a vast amount of stuff over there and elsewhere. But as Roger has often pointed out, even if we wave money in front of these good folks, they work at their own pace, not ours. But in fairness, it's that the various legal teams at their end are all overworked and perpetually swamped with agreements and paperwork to review. Things eventually happen, but we've learned to be patient. We have so many irons in the fire these days, if it takes years to put together Rio Bravo or Cahill: US Marshal or Summer Of '42 or whatever else we're bugging WB about, we've no shortage of things to do in the meantime."
Of course, I would also love to get THE HANGING TREE on CD, but I suppose that there are certainly a lot of legal hassles involved with this score in the same vein as it was with RIO BRAVO. You have WB, the Gary Cooper estate and the publishers of the "Hanging Tree" song, all of whom have to be brought together to get it licensed. I can imagine that this is not an easy situation.
Nevertheless, it would be nice to hear if such a project is financially feasible at all or not these days. For Fielding's JUNIOR BONNER we at least heard that it would cost too much money to get it released. But no one has commented yet anything about THE HANGING TREE.
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