Kritzerland is pleased to present a new limited edition soundtrack release, two great scores on one CD:
THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA and VIOLENT SATURDAY Music Composed by Hugo Friedhofer
Based on a story by Ellis St. John, 1958’s The Barbarian and the Geisha recounts the story of Townsend Harris, who arrives in Japan in the 1850s as the first American to serve as Consul-General to Japan, and who was a key figure in opening relations between Japan and America. The film stars John Wayne, and is directed by John Huston. Much of it shot on location, the film is beautiful to look at and features Twentieth Century Fox’s usual top-notch production values.
One of The Barbarian and the Geisha’s strongest elements is its absolutely stunning score by Hugo Friedhofer. By that point, Friedhofer had already written several masterpieces, including The Best Years of Our Lives, The Bishop’s Wife, and, at Fox, such glorious scores as An Affair to Remember, The Boy on a Dolphin, The Rains of Ranchipur, Soldier of Fortune, Seven Cities of Gold, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, Between Heaven and Hell, and, the same year as Barbarian, The Young Lions.
Friedhofer’s score for The Barbarian and the Geisha manages to have Oriental color while remaining tonal in a completely American way. It’s a thing of sublime beauty and one of his best scores. His main theme is heartbreakingly beautiful and is repeated many times throughout the score, and the rest of his music complements and enriches every scene in the film - this is Golden Age movie music the way we remember Golden Age movie music - melodic, dramatic, tender, suspenseful, and evoking a different time and place through orchestral color and knowing how the orchestra can be utilized to also evoke Oriental textures without resorting to triteness.
Violent Saturday, based on the novel by W. L. Heath, was made three years earlier and is a taut and suspenseful film about a small-town robbery. Almost fifty after its release, it’s considered a classic (the DVD was recently released by Twilight Time and is a must-have), with terrific performances from Richard Egan, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and the large cast, excellent writing (screenplay by Sidney Boehm, who wrote the screenplay for the noir classic, The Big Heat), and great direction from Richard Fleischer,
Hugo Friedhofer’s score for Violent Saturday is perfection and a textbook example of how and when to use music. All told, the score is only about twenty minutes long, but it’s the perfect amount of music for this film. It does exactly what film music is supposed to do - propels the film, underscores the scenes that need it, and stays out of the way when music would serve no purpose. There are no classic Friedhofer themes to be found - just music that functions sometimes as subtext, sometimes as suspense, and sometimes as violent as the goings on in Violent Saturday.
Both The Barbarian and the Geisha and Violent Saturday had previous CD releases on Intrada, both long out of print and instant sellouts. The Barbarian and the Geisha was a standalone CD and Violent Saturday played second feature to Warlock by Leigh Harline. It’s great to be able to couple the two Friedhofer scores together, and make them available to those who may have missed out on the prior releases, or who’d like to have these two scores together on one CD. This release has been newly-remastered by James Nelson.
The Barbarian and the Geisha/Violent Saturday is limited to 1000 copies only. ---レーベルより
トラックリスト
THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA
1. Foreword/Main Title 2. The Intruders 3. The Consulate 4. Flag Raising 5. Orders from Edo 6. An Invitation 7. Homecoming 8. The Strange House 9. Awareness 10. The Tormentors 11. Outcast 12. The Plague 13. Narration and Scene 14. The Road to Edo 15. The Palace 16. Advice and Questions 17. Assassination 18. Celebration and Plot 19. Tamura Commands 20. Declaration 21. Finale
Kurt Graunke conducts the Graunke Orchestra
VIOLENT SATURDAY
22. Prologue 23. Violent Saturday - Main Title 24. If I’m Lucky 25. Harper 26. Dill and Library 27. Emily 28. Harper Takes a Walk 29. Shelly and Steve 30. Linda Comes Home 31. Insomnia 32. Mr. Reeves 33. Stalemate 34. Kidnapping 35. God Forgive Me 36. End Title
ヒューゴ・フリードホーファーのサウンドトラック２作品をカップリング収録。いずれもINTRADAレーベルから発売され、長らく廃盤になっていた作品。ニュー・リマスター盤。限定1000枚。
トラックリスト「黒船」・・・日本領事として、アメリカからタウンゼント・ハリス提督がやってきた。上陸先の下田の奉行は、彼ら一行を寺に押し込め、接待役にお吉という芸者をあてがうが……。二つの文化の間で翻弄される女性を描いた歴史ドラマ。監督：ジョン・ヒューストン、出演：ジョン・ウェイン、安藤永子。1958年米。
「恐怖の土曜日」・・・アリゾナの小さな町に、セールスマンと自称する三人の男たちがやってきた。しかし彼らの真の目的は、この町の銀行を襲うことだった。武装した強盗たちに、町の男たちも暴力を以て対抗するが……。銀行強盗に襲われた町の、一日の恐怖を描いたバイオレンス映画。監督：リチャード・フライシャー、出演：ヴィクター・マチュア、リー・マーヴィン、スティーヴン・マクナリー。1955年米。
Kritzerland is pleased to present a new limited edition soundtrack release, two great scores on one CD:
THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA
and VIOLENT SATURDAY
Music Composed by Hugo Friedhofer
Based on a story by Ellis St. John, 1958’s The Barbarian and the Geisha recounts the story of Townsend Harris, who arrives in Japan in the 1850s as the first American to serve as
Consul-General to Japan, and who was a key figure in opening relations between Japan and America. The film stars John Wayne, and is directed by John Huston. Much of it shot on location, the film is beautiful to look at and features Twentieth Century Fox’s usual top-notch production values.
One of The Barbarian and the Geisha’s strongest elements is its absolutely stunning score by Hugo Friedhofer. By that point, Friedhofer had already written several masterpieces, including The Best Years of Our Lives, The Bishop’s Wife, and, at Fox, such glorious scores as An Affair to Remember, The Boy on a Dolphin, The Rains of Ranchipur, Soldier of Fortune, Seven Cities of Gold, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, Between Heaven and Hell, and, the same year as Barbarian, The Young Lions.
Friedhofer’s score for The Barbarian and the Geisha manages to have Oriental color while remaining tonal in a completely American way. It’s a thing of sublime beauty and one of his best scores. His main theme is heartbreakingly beautiful and is repeated many times throughout the score, and the rest of his music complements and enriches every scene in the film - this is Golden Age movie music the way we remember Golden Age movie music - melodic, dramatic, tender, suspenseful, and evoking a different time and place through orchestral color and knowing how the orchestra can be utilized to also evoke Oriental textures without resorting to triteness.
Violent Saturday, based on the novel by W. L. Heath, was made three years earlier and is a taut and suspenseful film about a small-town robbery. Almost fifty after its release, it’s considered a classic (the DVD was recently released by Twilight Time and is a must-have), with terrific performances from Richard Egan, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and the large cast, excellent writing (screenplay by Sidney Boehm, who wrote the screenplay for the noir classic, The Big Heat), and great direction from Richard Fleischer,
Hugo Friedhofer’s score for Violent Saturday is perfection and a textbook example of how and when to use music. All told, the score is only about twenty minutes long, but it’s the perfect amount of music for this film. It does exactly what film music is supposed to do - propels the film, underscores the scenes that need it, and stays out of the way when music would serve no purpose. There are no classic Friedhofer themes to be found - just music that functions sometimes as subtext, sometimes as suspense, and sometimes as violent as the goings on in Violent Saturday.
Both The Barbarian and the Geisha and Violent Saturday had previous CD releases on Intrada, both long out of print and instant sellouts. The Barbarian and the Geisha was a standalone CD and Violent Saturday played second feature to Warlock by Leigh Harline. It’s great to be able to couple the two Friedhofer scores together, and make them available to those who may have missed out on the prior releases, or who’d like to have these two scores together on one CD. This release has been newly-remastered by James Nelson.
The Barbarian and the Geisha/Violent Saturday is limited to 1000 copies only. ---レーベルより
THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA
1. Foreword/Main Title
2. The Intruders
3. The Consulate
4. Flag Raising
5. Orders from Edo
6. An Invitation
7. Homecoming
8. The Strange House
9. Awareness
10. The Tormentors
11. Outcast
12. The Plague
13. Narration and Scene
14. The Road to Edo
15. The Palace
16. Advice and Questions
17. Assassination
18. Celebration and Plot
19. Tamura Commands
20. Declaration
21. Finale
Kurt Graunke conducts the Graunke Orchestra
VIOLENT SATURDAY
22. Prologue
23. Violent Saturday - Main Title
24. If I’m Lucky
25. Harper
26. Dill and Library
27. Emily
28. Harper Takes a Walk
29. Shelly and Steve
30. Linda Comes Home
31. Insomnia
32. Mr. Reeves
33. Stalemate
34. Kidnapping
35. God Forgive Me
36. End Title
Conducted by Lionel Newman