Kritzerland is pleased to present a new limited edition soundtrack CD - two great scores, one a world-premiere release, on one jam-packed CD:
THE WAYWARD BUS and THE ENEMY BELOW
Music Composed by Leigh Harline Conducted by Lionel Newman
John Steinbeck and the movies seemed made for each other. He was blessed to have major directors bring his works to the screen - such greats as John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath), Elia Kazan (Viva Zapata and East of Eden), Alfred Hitchcock (Lifeboat), Lewis Milestone (Of Mice and Men and The Red Pony), and Victor Fleming (Tortilla Flat). It was a homecoming of sorts for The Wayward Bus - Twentieth Century Fox had already done Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Lifeboat, and Viva Zapata, and The Wayward Bus, whose journey to the screen was indeed wayward, ended up at Fox after having floated around elsewhere for several years.
Top-billed was Joan Collins as an insecure, hard-drinking, jealous wife, with Rick Jason as her husband, the driver of the titular wayward bus. But it’s really an ensemble picture. Hot off her screen success in The Girl Can’t Help It, Jayne Mansfield turns in a wonderful and touching performance as a stag party gal, and Dan Dailey is also affecting as a salesman who takes an interest in her. Also terrific are Betty Lou Keim and Dolores Michaels - Keim playing an unhappy waitress getting away from her humdrum job, and Michaels as a young woman trying to break free of her strict parents.
Also released by Fox in 1957 was the tense and exciting war picture, The Enemy Below. Directed by Dick Powell, The Enemy Below is the story of two boats - an American destroyer and a German U-boat. Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens turn in excellent performances as the two captains engaged in a deadly battle of wits. The taut screenplay was by Wendell Mayes (The Spirit of St. Louis, Anatomy of a Murder, Advise and Consent, In Harm’s Way, Von Ryan’s Express, Hotel, The Poseidon Adventure, and Death Wish to name a few), based on the novel by D.A. Rayner, and the film was beautifully shot by Harold Rossen in color and Cinemascope.
The Wayward Bus and The Enemy Below, while polar opposites as films, did share something vital between them - two very different but superb musical scores by Leigh Harline.
Harline’s score for The Wayward Bus is filled with the longing and yearning of its characters. You can feel it immediately in the film’s main title music, and it continues in each successive cue - it really gets under the skin of the characters and drama, and it’s filled with plaintive melodies and colors. The music for The Enemy Below is thrilling and memorable. Harline’s scoring choices are interesting - he lets long dialogue sequences play without music, while scoring the action sequences, with his themes clearly defining the American and German boats and their maneuvers. Once the climactic battle begins, Harline lets his music go pretty much non-stop, and it’s simply exhilarating battle music, the kind no one seems to know how to write anymore.
This is the world premiere release of The Wayward Bus, in stereo and sounding wonderful, thanks to the usual tender loving care of Nick Redman’s team. We present the complete score as it appears in the film. The Enemy Below was previously released on Intrada (as a standalone score, which quickly sold out). We’ve remastered it for this release, presenting every note of Harline’s score, but omitting the bonus tracks from the Intrada CD, which consisted of a few German drinking songs and some radar blips.
The Wayward Bus/The Enemy Below is limited to 1000 copies only. --レーベルより
トラックリスト
THE WAYWARD BUS
1. The Wayward Bus (Main Title) 2. Johnny and Alice 3. Johnny Leaves/Johnny's Gone 4. The Old Road/Mirror Mirror 5. Lonesome Alice 6. Mildred and Johnny 7. Camille Calls in Love/Disillusioned/Remorse 8. A Time for Contemplation 9. End Title
THE ENEMY BELOW
10. The Enemy Below (Main Title)/Destroyer at Night 11. Radar Contact 12. Charting Tables 13. Alert Ships/Target Diving/Ready Torpedoes 14. Target Waiting 15. Target Safe 16. Ocean Bottom 17. Decisions/Montage/Torpedoes, LOS!/Target Hit 18. Abandon Ship 19. Counter Attack 20. Man the Life Boats/Rescue (Part 1) 21. Rescue (Part 2)/Escape 22. The Enemy Below (End Title)
音楽リー・ハーラインの２作品のサウンドトラックをカップリング収録！世界初リリースとなる「気まぐれバス」と再発となる「眼下の敵」（INTRADA盤に収録されたボーナストラックは省略）のオリジナル・サウンドトラック。指揮はいずれもライオネル・ニューマン。限定1000枚。
トラックリスト『気まぐれバス』・・・ジョン・スタインベックの同名小説の映画化。「島の女」のアイヴァン・モファットが脚色、「青い潮」のヴィクター・ヴィカスが監督した。(ヴィカスはアメリカに帰化)撮影監督は「回転木馬」のチャールズ・G・クラーク、音楽は「無法の王者ジェシイ・ジェームス」のリー・ハーラインが作曲、「めぐり逢い(1957)」のライオネル・ニューマンが指揮した。主演は「日のあたる島」のジョーン・コリンズ、「女はそれを我慢できない」のジェーン・マンスフィールド、「荒鷲の翼」のダン・デイリー、「スカートをはいた中尉さん」のリック・ジェーソン。
『気まぐれバス』・・・ディック・パウエルの紛れもない代表作にして、最高傑作。第二次大戦下の南大西洋を舞台に、アメリカ駆逐艦とドイツ潜水艦の文字通り息詰まる戦いを描く。大戦時、南太西洋で出会った米駆逐艦と独Uボート、互いに相手の動向を探りながら繰り広げられる死闘。海の男たちのスポーツにも似たフェア・プレイな戦い。頭脳的な攻撃、緊迫したサスペンスと駆け引きを描いた戦争アクション。出演：ロバート・ミッチャム、クルト・ユルゲンス、 クルト・クリューガー。1957年米。
Kritzerland is pleased to present a new limited edition soundtrack CD - two great scores, one a world-premiere release, on one jam-packed CD:
THE WAYWARD BUS
and
THE ENEMY BELOW
Music Composed by Leigh Harline Conducted by Lionel Newman
John Steinbeck and the movies seemed made for each other. He was blessed to have major directors bring his works to the screen - such greats as John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath), Elia Kazan (Viva Zapata and East of Eden), Alfred Hitchcock (Lifeboat), Lewis Milestone (Of Mice and Men and The Red Pony), and Victor Fleming (Tortilla Flat). It was a homecoming of sorts for The Wayward Bus - Twentieth Century Fox had already done Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Lifeboat, and Viva Zapata, and The Wayward Bus, whose journey to the screen was indeed wayward, ended up at Fox after having floated around elsewhere for several years.
Top-billed was Joan Collins as an insecure, hard-drinking, jealous wife, with Rick Jason as her husband, the driver of the titular wayward bus. But it’s really an ensemble picture. Hot off her screen success in The Girl Can’t Help It, Jayne Mansfield turns in a wonderful and touching performance as a stag party gal, and Dan Dailey is also affecting as a salesman who takes an interest in her. Also terrific are Betty Lou Keim and Dolores Michaels - Keim playing an unhappy waitress getting away from her humdrum job, and Michaels as a young woman trying to break free of her strict parents.
Also released by Fox in 1957 was the tense and exciting war picture, The Enemy Below. Directed by Dick Powell, The Enemy Below is the story of two boats - an American destroyer and a German U-boat. Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens turn in excellent performances as the two captains engaged in a deadly battle of wits. The taut screenplay was by Wendell Mayes (The Spirit of St. Louis, Anatomy of a Murder, Advise and Consent, In Harm’s Way, Von Ryan’s Express, Hotel, The Poseidon Adventure, and Death Wish to name a few), based on the novel by D.A. Rayner, and the film was beautifully shot by Harold Rossen in color and Cinemascope.
The Wayward Bus and The Enemy Below, while polar opposites as films, did share something vital between them - two very different but superb musical scores by Leigh Harline.
Harline’s score for The Wayward Bus is filled with the longing and yearning of its characters. You can feel it immediately in the film’s main title music, and it continues in each successive cue - it really gets under the skin of the characters and drama, and it’s filled with plaintive melodies and colors. The music for The Enemy Below is thrilling and memorable. Harline’s scoring choices are interesting - he lets long dialogue sequences play without music, while scoring the action sequences, with his themes clearly defining the American and German boats and their maneuvers. Once the climactic battle begins, Harline lets his music go pretty much non-stop, and it’s simply exhilarating battle music, the kind no one seems to know how to write anymore.
This is the world premiere release of The Wayward Bus, in stereo and sounding wonderful, thanks to the usual tender loving care of Nick Redman’s team. We present the complete score as it appears in the film. The Enemy Below was previously released on Intrada (as a standalone score, which quickly sold out). We’ve remastered it for this release, presenting every note of Harline’s score, but omitting the bonus tracks from the Intrada CD, which consisted of a few German drinking songs and some radar blips.
The Wayward Bus/The Enemy Below is limited to 1000 copies only. --レーベルより
THE WAYWARD BUS
1. The Wayward Bus (Main Title)
2. Johnny and Alice
3. Johnny Leaves/Johnny's Gone
4. The Old Road/Mirror Mirror
5. Lonesome Alice
6. Mildred and Johnny
7. Camille Calls in Love/Disillusioned/Remorse
8. A Time for Contemplation
9. End Title
THE ENEMY BELOW
10. The Enemy Below (Main Title)/Destroyer at Night
11. Radar Contact
12. Charting Tables
13. Alert Ships/Target Diving/Ready Torpedoes
14. Target Waiting
15. Target Safe
16. Ocean Bottom
17. Decisions/Montage/Torpedoes, LOS!/Target Hit
18. Abandon Ship
19. Counter Attack
20. Man the Life Boats/Rescue (Part 1)
21. Rescue (Part 2)/Escape
22. The Enemy Below (End Title)