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Many of the Goldsmith scores I play most often already have been mentioned ahead of me, so I'll abide by Doug's hope for pulling still more obscure ones from under the rubble of neglect. That is, after I say I'm glad Lokutus brought up THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE, which I especially love because it was created for my favorite film. (It would have been good for its liner notes to have discussed why the small amount of missing score wasn't included -- or exactly why an alternate take of the main-title song is presented instead of the one heard in the movie -- but this isn't a perfect world.)

But two very likable Goldsmith entries which have similarities beyond never being mentioned by fans, are LOVE FIELD and THE TRAVELING EXECUTIONER. The two are quite different but still linked by the composer employing unexpected gospel aspects.

EXECUTIONER, which is so obscure I had to rent it for inclusion in my college-campus film series in 1972 in order to see it (I tried to see every Goldsmith picture even that far back), presents Stacy Keach as an intinerant professional who carts his own electric chair around the Southern U.S. in the 1930s (I think), along with a pre-HAROLD AND MAUDE Bud Cort as his apprentice. Its main theme plays like an amusingly sly rewriting of the song "That Old-Time Religion" and is very effective for the comic side of the story.

But the score's beautiful alternate side first accompanies a lengthy speech which Keach apparently offers every condemned man, talking them down from terror into beatific anticipation of death, by telling each (while securing him into the chair) how he's about to enter "the fields of Ambrosia." That same verbal imagery -- as well as the beautiful theme itself -- deepens in effect and significance over the course of the film. This one's something like THE FLIM-FLAM MAN with more poignancy.

LOVE FIELD, in contrast, is about a Southern fan of Jackie Kennedy who hits the road in over-identifying crisis after JFK's assassination but finds an adventure of her own. Michelle Pfeiffer receives a lovely theme adorned with gospel-type piano flourishes; but when I saw the film once more after finally obtaining the CD, I was puzzled and disappointed to find that Goldsmith's theme had been replaced in the movie over both main and end titles (as I recall) by more overt gospel-type instrumentals that weren't his. (If you know anything about that, Doug, what gave?) This one also offers a five-minute climactic chase cue which I particularly like.

A fun thought, however, is that for the first films which Pfeiffer and Sean Connery appeared in following THE RUSSIA HOUSE (1990), each had a hand in producing; and for both pictures -- LOVE FIELD ('91) and MEDICINE MAN ('92) -- they separately sought the RUSSIA HOUSE composer.

It's always nice when actors appreciate anyone else's contribution to their films!


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Here's, yet, another title that comes to mind. I don't know why, but it hardly ever gets mentioned.

Hollow Man. I love the scientific motifs, if you will, with his use of electronics, especially in the main title.


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Glad you mentioned loading iPods with music...

Right now I'm working on transferring A GIRL NAMED SOONER to MP3.

Now for my own personal enjoyment I let the iPod shuffle through albums at random and the odd (or interesting) thing is that it seems to like 100 RIFLES.
Nearly every day it'll select to play more than one track from that album.


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DEEP RISING is getting alot of mentions.
Makes me curious about the film.
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Deep Rising is a Stephen Sommers (The Mummy) sci-fi monster movie about some sort of giant killer octopus holding a cruise liner hostage on the open sea. None of it is particularly logical or can be taken seriously, and whether you'll like the movie may well depend on the frame of mind you're in while watching it. I kinda like it, it's straight B-movie trash for sure, but entertaining nevertheless, since nobody, including Goldsmith or Sommers, seem to take any of it seriously either. Of course, as a movie, it is certainly nowhere near in the league of Alien or The Thing.

Yet no doubt, for me (and I said the same thing years ago on the Film Score Monthly Message board when the movie came out) this is one of Jerry Goldsmith's most thrilling scores ever. It is basically over the top non-stop aggressive action music (with a few tense suspense cues for good measure thrown in) In fact, I find the action music to be among Goldsmith's most compelling, easily as listanable (if not more so) than much of the stuff he wrote for way better known scores such as Total Recall. It's not just exciting, it's just so darn relentless, that quite often when you think it's the climax of a cue, Goldsmith still somehow manages to turn it up a notch. Goldsmith has always been very good at writing exciting action music, so it's a blast to hear that album, which is basically just one non-stop action ballet, a kind of pop version of Stravinsky's Le Sacre; one half hour of rollicking, aggessively pounding rhythms.

Interestingly, I remember a renowned German classical music magazine giving the CD release a good review, stating that Goldsmith did a lot of stuff you otherwise only hear in the most avant-garde concert works.
Definitely one of the Goldsmith scores I listen to more often; though it's probably best if you don't listen to it at night, otherwise your neighbors will knock at you door (and it's no fun listening to it with the volume turned down).


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Agreed about DAMIEN - OMEN II, it's easily as good as THE OMEN or THE FINAL CONFLICT. It's the shortest OMEN score, but indeed, there is not a dull moment in the score. I like both the original recording and the re-recording; great choice by Varese to release both on the same disc.


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I play Goldsmith's THE CHAIRMAN incessantly, but it doesn't seem to get a lot of attention or praise, and I think it's one of his most incredible and moving themes!


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