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Roger Feigelson · Joined: 19 Nov 2005 Posts: 1673

INTRADA Announces:

BOY ON A DOLPHIN

Composed by HUGO FRIEDHOFER
INTRADA Special Collection Volume 78

"Hugo Friedhofer’s superb score for Boy on a Dolphin (1957) pounces with a commanding blast of woodwinds that evolves into a sinuous, twining, Middle Eastern-flavored theme perfectly layered beneath cinematographer Milton Krasner’s travelogue-like views of the gorgeous Greek islands of Rhodes, Delos, Mykonos, and Hydra. It’s a stunningly confident musical announcement: we’re in for a wild ride..." describes Julie Kirgo in her liner notes to this first ever stereo-release of the complete Oscar-nominated score from the 20th Century Fox film.

Friedhofer’s music is at times tartlingly beautiful, as evidenced in “Love Scene,” with its poignant, string-heavy theme. By contrast, “On the Road,” features some other-worldly scoring for a scene set against Thessaly’s astonishing cliff-top monastery of Meteora with soaring strings, chimes, and the solemnity of religious chant. But perhaps the standouts here are the “underwater” cues, particularly “The Dive,” "The Search" and “Nocturnal Sea.” Here Friedhofer deploys every bit of instrumental color at his command to give a sense of the eerie beauty and essential mystery of the undersea world. Silky strings, sonorous brass, and undulating harp blend with perilous allure, topped off with the addition of the wordless siren song of a human voice.

Boy on a Dolphin starred Sophia Loren in her American debut, and co-stars Alan Ladd in the story a treasure hunt for the legendary solid gold statue of a boy riding on a dolphin, lost in a ship wreck in the Greek Isles. It has everything a treasure hunt should have...romance, a cunning adversary, misplaced trust, and gorgeous locales.

Boy on a Dolphin was originally released at the time of the film in 1957 on a Decca LP, issued only in mono and, along with a Japanese CD reissue of the same contents, now long out of print. This CD is an expanded version of that album, including not only several previously unreleased sequences but presenting everything—sumptuously—in stereo for the first time.

As Kirgo notes, "Its incandescence is a poignant reminder of the high art once casually passed off as mere craft by the Hollywood studio system."

This release is limited to 1500 copies.

INTRADA Special Collection - Volume 78
Retail Price: $19.99
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For track listing and sound samples, please visit
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kipling71 · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject:

To coin a phrase, PHWOOAARRR!!

(That's a good thing.) Very Happy

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nekromantik · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject:

MERCI BEAUCOUP! Wink

Olivier · Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 558 Location: Paris, France

As so often, I don't know the movie nor the score, but I loved the samples (past the longish 30-second exotic introduction-- not bad, but I was impatient to hear the rest, especially the sea cues described in the blurb).

Could (at least part of) this serve as a companion score to Herrmann's Beneath the 12-Mile Reef?
I will know for sure in a week...

Very Happy

Gary S. · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:48 pm Post subject:

Ordered. Friedhofer is always welcome. I am still kicking myself over missing Barbarian and the Geisha.

Gary
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Lokutus · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject:

Thanks! Ordered and can't wait to hear it... Smile

If only more of Friedhofer's scores was available... Wink

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RM Eastman · Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 300

One of Friedhofer's better scores-Bravo!
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American Nightmare · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 93

I'd never heard this score before, or seen the film, but I must admit, my fellow film score fans' enthusiasm was contagious, and the samples hooked me. Ordered!

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Jon A. Bell · Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 97

I've ordered this, too, since I love "underwater"music, and I'm curious: was any of this score re-worked for "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea?" (Since Friedhofer worked on the show, and cues from both Fox's The Enemy Below and Hell and High Water appeared in "Voyage.")

Just wondering,

-- Jon

crogrr · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 20 Location: Redondo Beach, CA

Incredible - expanded and in stereo from Fox elements - never thought it would/could happen! I have the Decca mono LP and the Japan MCA LP re-release - guess there is less Ebay value now!! Not that I mind - give the Intrada hamsters a special treat this week!!

Indy2003 · Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 423 Location: Griffin, GA

Wow, excellent! I can't wait to hear this album. Hugo Friedhofer, you can have my twenty dollars any day of the week.

Back at ya later

dadid · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 28

One word : bravo Very Happy

Alan · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 381 Location: Middlesex U.K.

I'm trying to cut back, but I had to buy this. I love Friedhofer in impressionist mode (& this sort of makes up for the missing tracks of The Rains Of Ranchipur). Still waiting for a DVD of this film, in fact a nice big box set of 50's CinemaScope films from Fox (with isolated music tracks) would go down a treat.

Ron Pulliam · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 992 Location: Oakland CA

I am thrilled beyond comprehension at this release.

Even after all these years of product being released from the Fox vaults, it is still possible for improbable treasures to be revealed.

I long to hold this CD in my hands and to stroke its spine with my fingers.

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