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INTRADA Announces:



THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES
Composed and Conducted by RON GOODWIN

INTRADA Special Collection Volume 161

When Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines was first premiered as a “roadshow” feature in 1965, the album taken from the soundtrack contained less than 30 minutes from a score running close to two hours, with dialog highlights spread throughout the record as filler. It was less an album of the score and more a concept project -- simply a half hour audio souvenir of the movie experience. Adding insult to injury, though issued in both mono and stereo versions, many of the selections appeared in mono only, no matter what their respective jacket covers stated. But the packaging at least offered that great Ronald Searle campaign artwork.

Now some 46 years later, Intrada has completed a complete restoration of the lengthy score that spans two CDs. The energetic score Ron Goodwin provides an expansive musical landscape with a bent towards“national portraits”: motifs that underscore the film’s amusing and unabashed stereotypes. To do so, Goodwin often quotes from familiar sources—opera, anthems, marches, folk songs, pop songs—creating a musical collage of supreme liveliness and wit. There is plenty of mad, elegantly Mickey-Moused chase music on hand, complete with bells, whistles, car horns, and whoopeecushion blats. But here, too, is a soaring, string-led flight anthem; a gorgeous little love theme; and a fetching theme for the Lord’s winsome daughter.

Those Magnificent Men is the saga of a (fictional) 1910 London-to-Paris air race sponsored by a stuffy British newspaper magnate, Lord Rawnsley
(Robert Morley), with the encouragement of his speed-mad daughter (Sarah Miles) and her flyer-suitor, an upper-crust aristocrat (James Fox). As Rawnsley says, “The trouble with these international affairs is that they attract foreigners”—and sure enough, the race (with its £10,000 purse) draws the cream of global aviation, including a villainous English cheat, an easily distracted French lover-boy, an American cowboy, an excitable Italian Count, an inscrutable Japanese, and a couple of pompous, by-the-book Germans.

This release is limited to 2000 units.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 161
Retail Price: $24.99
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You can't go wrong with Ron!

Thanks a bunch, Hamsters!

This looks very promising. I've ordered this, as well. Thanks.

I'm completely unfamiliar with this, but I like the samples. I'll give it a try!

Ordered!

Dear old Ron, Magnificent indeed! Ordered. Goodnight Intrada and everybody !

Absolutely wonderful!

I've loved this movie and music since I was 7 years old - it was one of the very first movies my dad bought on VHS and I watched it over and over (of course I had to wait another 16 years or so to see in it's proper TODD-AO format on DVD) It's going to be a complete joy to have this to play, and the package looks stunning and comprehensive. Already one of my favourite releases ever, I can't wait for it to arrive in a couple of weeks. Thank you Intrada, really, this is brilliant.

"Of the fourteen starters, eight have landed, two crashed on takeoff, three crashed on the way here and one...is on his way to Scotland??!"

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Send one my way! I love this Ron Goodwin score.

I have a copy of the 20th Century Fox LP autographed by director Ken Annikin.

A really nice double score disc and a classic, epic, comedy film.

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"I used to worry about losing my mind. Now that I've lost it I don't worry about it anymore." -Wavy Gravy

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"I used to worry about losing my mind. Now that I've lost it I don't worry about it anymore." -Wavy Gravy

I love Goodwin's score to Where Eagles Dare, and his live action Disney scores. If this is around later this week. I will for sure buy it.

I also have to say the cover art, fonts, layout etc are to die for! One of the best covers. (Yet I have to say Intrada always gives good artwork) still one of my favs!

Reading the descriptive notes a few minutes ago, I said to myself... It's a good one, I mean Goodwin!

Of the countless film score discs being released these days, this is one that rises above most others in my opinion!

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"I used to worry about losing my mind. Now that I've lost it I don't worry about it anymore." -Wavy Gravy

Tremendous release, well worth waiting up for.

Many thanks to all involved in the release of one of Ron Goodwin's most magnificent scores, this really is a dream come true.

This has always been one of my favourite scores, I never thought that the LP release did it justice, but now we have the entire score, it's just unbelievable, it's been a long wait, but this release was well worth waiting for.

Intrada, you have given us the most Magnificent start to the year, thank you again.

Strange admission here: I've never seen this film and know nothing about the music. I ordered the CD along with Wrongfully Accused anyway because I really like Ron Goodwin, and the reactions this release has been getting have been very encouraging.

I bought this on the strength of the samples...and the fact that it is Ron Goodwin. I love his war movies, but am not real familiar with him outside of that realm. The samples are FANTASTIC though, so I have high hopes!!