Dragon’s Domain Records presents THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION, VOLUME 5: SCIENCE FICTION ATOMIC MUTATION II. With this fifth collection of the composer’s music, we are pleased to explore two more films that he scored for director Bert I. Gordon in 1957 and 1958. Most of Gordon’s celebrated work was in the idiom of giant monster films. Albert Glasser consistently made musical magic out of limited resources and onrushing deadlines as one of Hollywood’s most prolific B-movie composers. THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION, VOLUME 5 features expanded releases of Glasser’s music for THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN and WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST.
The years 1957-58 were Albert Glasser’s busiest as a film composer, having scored fifteen B-movies that saw release in 1957, and ten in 1958. The films included Glasser’s celebrated science fiction/monster films MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN in ’57, and GIANT FROM THE UNKNOWN, ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE, WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST, and THE SPIDER from the following year, as well as a slew of Westerns, adventure sagas, crime, and juvenile gang movies.
Released in 1957, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN was something of a reversal of the same year’s INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN in which a man survives a plutonium explosion and grows 8 to 10 feet a day, finally reaching 60 feet tall. Both films tried to give their main characters an aura of tragic sympathy. Composer Hans Salter accomplished this in SHRINKING MAN through the use of a rhythmic melody, while Glasser uses a soft violin solo to provide a degree of pathos for the film’s unfortunate protagonist.
THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN spawned a sequel, WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST releeased the following year, in which the Colossal Man is revealed to have survived falling off the Hoover Dam but is left disfigured and nearly mindless by the trauma of his fall as he runs amok again. Glasser’s score follows the pattern of the first film, merging pathos for the man’s condition while evoking terror for his violence.
Dragon’s Domain Records presents THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION VOLUME 5: SCIENCE FICTION ATOMIC MUTATION II, featuring original music composed by Albert Glasser for THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN and WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST, mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland. The booklet contains liner notes written by noted film music journalist and author Randall D. Larson.
THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION VOLUME 5: SCIENCE FICTION ATOMIC MUTATION II is a limited edition release of 500 units 2022/9/19の週発売
WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST 10. AIP Emblem / Main Title / Mexican Village (3:06) 11. Puzzle / Miguel / Night Watch (3:12) 12. Footprint / The Mountain (3:47) 13. The Giant (2:16) 14. The Chase (3:35) 15. The Fanfares (0:33) 16. Montage (2:46) 17. Las Vegas / Boulder Dam (5:19) 18. Lois Tries / Escape / He's Gone (2:30) 19. Observatory (2:17) 20. There He Is! / End Title (4:01) 21. Wild Vibes (0:54) 22. Wind Gongs (0:30) 23. War of the Colossal Beast (1958) Theatrical Trailer (2:13)
アルバート・グラッサー作品集第5弾。"SCIENCE FICTION: ATOMIC MUTATION I"と題して“SF：放射能による変異”がテーマの第2弾。バート・Ｉ・ゴードン監督の２作品『戦慄！プルトニウム人間』と『巨人獣』（別題：『巨人獣／プルトニウム人間の逆襲』）のオリジナル・サウンドトラックをカップリング収録！限定500枚
トラックリスト「戦慄！プルトニウム人間」・・・プルトニウム爆弾の実験で放射能を浴びたマニング大佐(グレン・ランガン)が巨人化し、半狂乱のまま町を破壊していく。本国で公開時に話題となり、翌年「巨人獣／プルトニウム人間の逆襲」が続編として公開されたヒット作である。９４年に「ＳＦ・特撮・モンスター・シネマ秘蔵版大全」と銘打たれて劇場公開（コムストック配給）された。監督はバート・I・ゴードン。1957年米。
「巨人獣／プルトニウム人間の逆襲」・・・「戦慄!プルトニウム人間」の続編で、より凶暴化しより醜く変貌した巨人と、迎え撃つアメリカ軍との攻防を描いている。前作の興行的成功のため急遽製作された本作は、前作のフィルムの使いまわし等も見受けられるが、より恐怖感が増した演出と、最終部分を当時この種の映画では珍しいカラー化し、本国での興行成績も前作を凌駕した。巨大生物を撮り続けたバート・I・ゴードンの真骨頂作品だ。1958年米。
Dragon’s Domain Records presents THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION, VOLUME 5: SCIENCE FICTION ATOMIC MUTATION II. With this fifth collection of the composer’s music, we are pleased to explore two more films that he scored for director Bert I. Gordon in 1957 and 1958. Most of Gordon’s celebrated work was in the idiom of giant monster films. Albert Glasser consistently made musical magic out of limited resources and onrushing deadlines as one of Hollywood’s most prolific B-movie composers. THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION, VOLUME 5 features expanded releases of Glasser’s music for THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN and WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST.
The years 1957-58 were Albert Glasser’s busiest as a film composer, having scored fifteen B-movies that saw release in 1957, and ten in 1958. The films included Glasser’s celebrated science fiction/monster films MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN in ’57, and GIANT FROM THE UNKNOWN, ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE, WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST, and THE SPIDER from the following year, as well as a slew of Westerns, adventure sagas, crime, and juvenile gang movies.
Released in 1957, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN was something of a reversal of the same year’s INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN in which a man survives a plutonium explosion and grows 8 to 10 feet a day, finally reaching 60 feet tall. Both films tried to give their main characters an aura of tragic sympathy. Composer Hans Salter accomplished this in SHRINKING MAN through the use of a rhythmic melody, while Glasser uses a soft violin solo to provide a degree of pathos for the film’s unfortunate protagonist.
THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN spawned a sequel, WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST releeased the following year, in which the Colossal Man is revealed to have survived falling off the Hoover Dam but is left disfigured and nearly mindless by the trauma of his fall as he runs amok again. Glasser’s score follows the pattern of the first film, merging pathos for the man’s condition while evoking terror for his violence.
Dragon’s Domain Records presents THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION VOLUME 5: SCIENCE FICTION ATOMIC MUTATION II, featuring original music composed by Albert Glasser for THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN and WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST, mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland. The booklet contains liner notes written by noted film music journalist and author Randall D. Larson.
THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION VOLUME 5: SCIENCE FICTION ATOMIC MUTATION II is a limited edition release of 500 units
2022/9/19の週発売
THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN
1. AIP Emblem / 2:45 AM / Main Title / Time Zero (2:34)
2. He's Going Down / Married Tonight in Las Vegas (1:48)
3. Still Alive / Going To Be Alright (3:06)
4. Won't Be Able to Visit / To The Hospital / What Made Him Grow? (3:29)
5. Grow Until He Dies / Remembering (3:37)
6. I Don't Wan't To Grown Anymore! / Have Tent, Will Travel (8:30)
7. Large Hypodermic / Las Vegas Destruction (2:13)
8. Drive It Hard / Put The Girl Down / The End (2:31)
9. The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) Theatrical Trailer (2:03)
WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST
10. AIP Emblem / Main Title / Mexican Village (3:06)
11. Puzzle / Miguel / Night Watch (3:12)
12. Footprint / The Mountain (3:47)
13. The Giant (2:16)
14. The Chase (3:35)
15. The Fanfares (0:33)
16. Montage (2:46)
17. Las Vegas / Boulder Dam (5:19)
18. Lois Tries / Escape / He's Gone (2:30)
19. Observatory (2:17)
20. There He Is! / End Title (4:01)
21. Wild Vibes (0:54)
22. Wind Gongs (0:30)
23. War of the Colossal Beast (1958) Theatrical Trailer (2:13)
Total Time: 67:00