Between 1970-85 Roy Budd brought his distinctive, sometimes jazzy music to 27 often good, though rarely first- rate films. The one indisputable classic was Michael Caine's Get Carter (1971), which led to his scoring a series of tough, at times brutal thrillers including Fear Is The Key, The Stone Killer, Diamonds, The Black Windmill and The Marseilles ...
There have been plenty of adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson's yarn, but how many can boast a kilted Michael Caine? This 1971 version bristles with swashbuckling charm. It also has a most memorable romantic theme, which you'd swear blind is a deconstruction of Henry VIII's classic "Greensleeves". The "Overture" belts it out at its heroic height and then finishing the disc is "For All My ...