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's something about the Sinbad saga that elicits the best from a composer. The Arabian Nights spent at the writing desk definitely result in something extra special--witness the Sinbad scores from Mikl--s R--zsa (The Golden Voyage of Sinbad) and Bernard Herrmann (The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad). Roy Budd, however, was better known for his in-the-groove jazz scores ...