INTRADA Announces:
HURRY SUNDOWN
Composed and Conducted by HUGO MONTENEGRO
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 353
For composer Hugo Montenegro, composing the score for the 1967 Otto Preminger film Hurry Sundown was his first assignment for a major Hollywood director. Montenegro spent three months on location, later crediting the director with helping teach him how “not to Mickey Mouse a film score” and how to avoid placing musical emphasis in the wrong places. A passionate, dramatic work, Montenegro makes strong use of the ravishing love theme for Lou (Faye Dunaway) and Rad (John Phillip Law). While a lush, stirring orchestral score in general, Jazz also plays a major role in the music, including the score’s longest sequence, “Playing With Dynamite," which runs nearly 11 minutes. Intrada presents the complete score, including the original RCA album assembly on this premiere 2-CD set, featuring nearly 2 hours and twenty minutes of music.
To present this expanded edition of Hurry Sundown, Intrada transferred the 35mm multi-channel scoring session masters, courtesy Paramount Pictures. The release includes the "roadshow" intermission music and exit pieces as well as music Montenegro recorded for the three-plus hour version of the film that is being heard for the first time. Because of the large number of cues recorded and the many channels of multi-track stereo music involved, Intrada had to mix and edit some 42 rolls of magnetic film. Incredibly, every roll survived in magnificent condition, yielding one of the most dynamic stereo presentations of filmmusic ever drawn from the '60s.
The film tells the tale of a pair of sharecroppers (one black, one white) battling the local landowner who wants to buy their land and seal the deal on a lucrative housing development and was filmed on location in what was still a racially-charged region. Based on the 1964 bestseller by K. B. Gilden, the film stars Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Robert Hooks, Faye Dunaway, Burgess Meredith and George Kennedy.
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 353
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