There's an extremely tenuous connecting link to the score that this most resembles: Goldsmith's Star Trek: The Motion Picture. That movie was directed by Robert Wise, as was the 1963 original The Haunting. The musical link isn't the starry brass fanfares of the space opera, but the eerie wonder lost inside the V'ger cloud. As Liam Neeson's clueless group wander Hugh Craine's ...
Jerry Goldsmith maintains he wrote his best work for director Franklin J. Schaffner. With Planet of the Apes there was so much to be intellectually stimulated by, it's intriguing to consider what he might have put together under another director's mind-set (like the largely conventionally scored four sequels). There's no indication of music in the Ape culture; the film's heroic focal point ...