DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID (2 CD) -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT
    Screen Archives Entertainment Screen Archives Entertainment    
   Home  Shipping Rates  Order Info  Contact Us  Links  Change Style
  search tips
   [log in]   [new customer?]  [join mailing list]
  Essential SSL


  
Our Price: $25.95
Bookmark and Share
Label:
Name: INTRADA
Number: INTISC475

DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID (2 CD) (CD)
Composed by: Miklos Rozsa

Miklos Rozsa’s final soundtrack on new 2-CD set! Released as part of the ongoing Universal Pictures Film Music Classics Collection and in honor of Rozsa’s 115th birthday (April 18, 1907), Intrada presents Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, the composer’s masterful tribute to his own scoring style of the Golden Age and his very final film soundtrack.

Carl Reiner directs Steve Martin in this 1982 homage to film noir, replete with murder, mystery and romance. Rachel Ward co-stars with a treasure trove of famous “cameos” by Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Burt Lancaster, Alan Ladd and others in bits from White Heat, The Lost Weekend, The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice, This Gun For Hire and other classics.

Miklos Rozsa has a most unusual opportunity to compose a rich symphonic score tipping his hat to the edged, aggressive dynamics of his earlier Double Indemnity and The Killers as well as paying tribute to his lush romantic vernacular. In signature fashion, Rozsa writes an angular motif for the suspense in the movie, full of interval leaps and intensity. Getting equal attention in the other direction is his warm, ravishing love theme, itself full of dips and swirls. Both ideas permeate the score throughout with a degree of forward motion and pace.

Keeping the orchestra in tempo is noted film music composer Lee Holdridge, who was brought in to conduct Rozsa’s “swan song” to the art form he so excelled at and earned three Academy Awards in the process. Intrada’s presentation of this splendid work has been assembled and mastered from the 1/2” three-channel stereo scoring session masters vaulted in pristine condition in the Universal archives. CD 1 contains Rozsa’s entire 62-minute score, CD 2 presents additional scoring cues and alternates. Footnote: Besides being the last soundtrack scored by Miklos Rozsa, this film was also the last to feature the incomparable costume designing of Edith Head. Score recorded in January 1982 by Robert Fernandez at The Burbank Studios. Lee Holdridge conducts, Miklos Rozsa composes. Intrada Special Collection 2-CD set available while quantities and interest remain! -INTRADA

CD 1 RÓZSA’S DRAMATIC SCORE
01. New Universal Signature (Jimmy McHugh) (0:18)
02. Prelude From Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid/Stormy Meeting (3:56)
03. The Front Page (0:14)
04. The Exterminator (3:00)
05. The First Bullet (0:36)
06. First Clue (0:41)
07. Cleaning Woman No. 1 (0:42)
08. Memories (1:07)
09. Wild Jazz Piece No. 2 (1:34)
10. Looking For Hastings (2:21)
11. Love Theme From Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (0:48)
12. The Swede (2:56)
13. Marlowe Appears (2:06)
14. The Railroad Car (1:23)
15. Embracing Hands (Original) (2:28)
16. A Meal Ticket (1:13)
17. Alias Sam Novak (1:26)
18. One-Sided Passion (Alternate) (1:34)
19. Cleaning Woman No. 2 (0:46)
20. Peace Offering (0:50)
21. The Hoods (3:21)
22. Transformation (0:38)
23. False Pretenses (2:27)
24. Mistaken Identity (4:00)
25. Love At Last (1:50)
26. Prison Break (1:02)
27. Trust (0:55)
28. Delusions/Carlotta (3:44)
29. Carlotta/Carlotta Café (2:01)
30. The Visit (1:20)
31. The Drink (0:55)
32. The Big Fish (2:55)
33. Final Instructions (1:15)
34. Final Cleaning Woman (0:16)
35. Finale From Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1:34)
36. End Credits From Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (4:05)
CD 1 Total Time: 61:48

CD 2 ADDITIONAL SCORE AND ALTERNATES
01. Love Theme From Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (Orchestra Demo) (1:56)
02. Fruitcake (1:13)
03. The Brentwood Club (1:28)
04. Fancy Restaurant (1:58)
05. The Party Crasher (1:18)
06. The Party Crasher (Alternate) (1:24)
07. Seduction (1:04)
08. Piano Solo (1:07)
09. Wild Jazz Piece (1:21)
10. Embracing Hands (Revised) (1:15)
11. Fancy Dinner Waltz (1:30)
12. One-Sided Passion (1:21)
13. “Dead Man’s Bolero” (2:30)
14. Carlotta Café (Alternate) (0:16)
15. Finale From Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (Alternate) (1:34)
16. Finale From Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (Short Version) (1:14)
17. End Credits From Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (Alternate) (3:53)
CD 2 Total Time: 25:04

Total Discs Time: 86:50

  
We also recommend:
CAPTAIN BLOOD
$12.95
 
LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD: MIKLOS ROZSA - JULIUS CAESAR, EL CID, YOUNG BESS, ETC.
$11.95
 
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (2CD)
$29.95
 
  
Last Items Viewed:
  
Reviews and Comments: (0)
All times US Eastern   |   login to post your own review or comments.
There are no reviews or comments yet. Log in or register to post your own reviews or comments.
 YOUR CART
  Your cart is empty.
TOP WEEKLY CDS
1 THE PINK PANTHER (2CD / EXPANDED)
2 DARLING LILI (2CD / EXPANDED)
3 THE MOLLY MAGUIRES (EXPANDED)
4 OUT OF AFRICA (2CD / EXPANDED)
5 PER QUALCHE DOLLARO IN PIU’ (FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE / 60TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
6 THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (2CD)
7 THE GODFATHER PART II (50TH ANNIVERSARY / 2CD)
8 THE SHADOW (2CD)
9 ISLANDS IN THE STREAM (REISSUE)
10 NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (2CD)

TOP WEEKLY DVD/BLU-RAY TITLES
1 TOM SAWYER (1973) / HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1974)
2 MEET JOHN DOE (Blu-ray) (1941)
3 THE INCIDENT (1967)
4 MELVIN AND HOWARD (1980)
5 THE BARKLEYS & THE HOUNDCATS (1972)
6 SOLSTICE: 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (1993)
7 WORLD OF GIANTS - THE COMPLETE SERIES (1959)
8 THE FIRM (2009)
9 THE RAIN KILLER (1990 / 1000 LIMITED EDITION)
10 10 RILLINGTON PLACE (1971)

 
© 2024 Screen Archives Entertainment