Manufacturer: Walt Disney
Manufacturer: MCA Records
Manufacturer: Decca
Manufacturer: Sbme Special MKTS.
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
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 ...
Manufacturer: Fox Classics
Not many Goldsmith tunes can claim to have gone on to be popular songs of their day. "And We Were Lovers" (lyrics by Johnny Mercer) from The Sand Pebbles ranks among the few and is a curiosity in as much as the film it was derived from hardly qualifies as romantic fluff. The Yangtze River of the 1920s is a background of turbulent waters to the political and racial intolerance ...
Manufacturer: Varèse-Sarabande
Unified in its resolve, aware of its filmic origins, and imaginative in its materials and orchestral thought, Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar-winning score for The Omen is a post-modern classic. Genre enthusiasts will remember the story of a married couple (Gregory Peck, Lee Remick) who adopt a five-year-old boy only to discover that he is the Anti-Christ. Written for mixed chorus and orchestra, ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger action films are so superfluous that when cynics try to dismiss the subgenre, it's been all too easy to throw out the baby with the bath water, to dump a True Lies alongside a Raw Deal. But 1990's Mars-set Total Recall remains one of Arnie's best, a reality bending adventure that not only anticipated The Matrix in key ways, but also took action ...
