Kritzerland is pleased to present a new limited edition soundtrack CD - two great scores on one CD:
THE FLY and RETURN OF THE FLY
Music Composed by Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter
“HELP MEEEEE”
The Fly began life as a short story by George Langelaan. Twentieth Century-Fox snapped up the rights and hired James Clavell to write the script, his first screenplay assignment (Clavell would go on to write the screenplays for The Great Escape, 633 Squadron, The Satan Bug, To Sir, With Love, the latter which he also directed - he also become a very successful novelist, turning out such books as King Rat, Tai-Pan, Shogun, and Noble House, all of which became either films or mini-series). Kurt Neumann was in the director chair. He’d already done a couple of sci-fi films, Rocketship X-M and Kronos. Of course, The Fly was both science fiction and horror.
A top-drawer cast was assembled, including young Al Hedison (who would soon change his name to David), Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Owens, and the child actor, Charles Herbert. It was given the Cinemascope and color treatment (shot by veteran cameraman Karl Struss). And it was a smash hit with audiences everywhere, grossing $3,000,000 on a budget of $700,000, in at time when those figures actually meant something.
In those days, sequels were not all that common, but after the success of the first film, Fox decided to do another Fly picture, Return of the Fly, which was rushed into production and released a year later.
The scores to The Fly and Return of the Fly were written by the team of Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter. Beginning with just the kind of bombastic and memorable music you’d want for a movie called The Fly, Sawtell and Shefter immediately introduce the theme for the happy couple at the film’s center, and it establishes immediately the human element of the story, which is so important for any sci-fi or horror film. From there it’s classic Sawtell and Shefter, with the scary music and the human music balancing out each other and creating a symphony of terror and things gone wrong, all in that unbelievably great Fox stereo sound. It’s one of the great sci-fi/horror scores. Return of the Fly is equally strong as a score and it’s not just a rehash of the first score, which is refreshing.
The Fly and Return of the Fly were both previously released in a box set on Percepto Records (which also contained Curse of the Fly, composed by Shefter alone), which has been long out of print and hard to find. For this reissue, we decided to just present the first two films, since they were made only a year apart and were both composed by Sawtell and Shefter. We’ve done some cleanup work and remastered the sound, combined a couple of shorter cues and removed the “Fox Fanfare” since it obviously wasn’t composed by Sawtell and Shefter. Both scores are complete - The Fly in glorious stereo, and the low budget Return of the Fly in glorious mono. So, turn off the lights and bask in the eerie glow of two classic sci-fi/horror scores by the great team of Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter.
The Fly/Return of the Fly is limited to 1000 copies only. --レーベルより
トラックリスト
THE FLY:
1. Main Title 2. Retrospect 3. Napaj Ni Edam/Happy Couple/Matchbox 4. The Claw 5. The Morning After 6. Fly’s Madam/Phillip’s Disappointment/Another Experiment 7. Helene’s Discovery 8. Strange Story/Show Me/Help Me 9. End Title
RETURN OF THE FLY:
10. Main Title 11. Amen/To the Foundry 12. How It Happened/Leave Me Alone 13. The House/Cecile 14. Fly Fright/The Heavy 15. The Experiment 16. Goodnight Phil 17. Gone Detective/The Phone Call 18. Rat Monster/Getting Rid of the Car 19. Explain/Fight 20. Disintegrated/Francois Shot 21. The Fly 22. Barthold/The Killing 23. Allen Dies/Righting Matters/End Titles
ジョルジュ・ランジュランの原作を映画化したＳＦホラーの古典。シリーズ２作品のサウンドトラックを収録。リマスター完全盤。限定1000枚。
トラックリスト『蝿男の恐怖』・・・物質転送を研究する科学者アンドレは、自らの体を使い実験を試みた。しかし、装置の中に1匹の蝿が紛れ込んでいたために頭と手だけが蝿の“蝿男”と化してしまう。自分の頭を持つ分身蝿を探すうち、徐々に人間としての意識が薄らいでいくことを感じた彼は、やがて絶望の淵へと追いやられていく……。監督：カート・ニューマン、出演：アル・ヘディソン、ヴィンセント・プライス。1958年米。
『蝿男の逆襲』・・・「蝿男の恐怖」のヒットによって製作された続編。前作で蝿男になってしまった科学者アンドレの息子フィリップは、母の死後、父の研究を続行しようと決意。伯父フランソワと親友の協力を得て別荘の地下室で物質転送機の開発を行う。だが実験が大詰めを迎えた時、親友が研究の横取りを企んでいる事が発覚。格闘の末、気絶させられたフィリップは転送機に入れられてしまうが、そこには一匹の蝿が……。監督：エドワード・Ｌ・バーンズ、出演：ヴィンセント・プライス、ブレット・ハルゼイ。1959年米。
Kritzerland is pleased to present a new limited edition soundtrack CD - two great scores on one CD:
THE FLY
and
RETURN OF THE FLY
Music Composed by Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter
“HELP MEEEEE”
The Fly began life as a short story by George Langelaan. Twentieth Century-Fox snapped up the rights and hired James Clavell to write the script, his first screenplay assignment (Clavell would go on to write the screenplays for The Great Escape, 633 Squadron, The Satan Bug, To Sir, With Love, the latter which he also directed - he also become a very successful novelist, turning out such books as King Rat, Tai-Pan, Shogun, and Noble House, all of which became either films or mini-series). Kurt Neumann was in the director chair. He’d already done a couple of sci-fi films, Rocketship X-M and Kronos. Of course, The Fly was both science fiction and horror.
A top-drawer cast was assembled, including young Al Hedison (who would soon change his name to David), Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Owens, and the child actor, Charles Herbert. It was given the Cinemascope and color treatment (shot by veteran cameraman Karl Struss). And it was a smash hit with audiences everywhere, grossing $3,000,000 on a budget of $700,000, in at time when those figures actually meant something.
In those days, sequels were not all that common, but after the success of the first film, Fox decided to do another Fly picture, Return of the Fly, which was rushed into production and released a year later.
The scores to The Fly and Return of the Fly were written by the team of Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter. Beginning with just the kind of bombastic and memorable music you’d want for a movie called The Fly, Sawtell and Shefter immediately introduce the theme for the happy couple at the film’s center, and it establishes immediately the human element of the story, which is so important for any sci-fi or horror film. From there it’s classic Sawtell and Shefter, with the scary music and the human music balancing out each other and creating a symphony of terror and things gone wrong, all in that unbelievably great Fox stereo sound. It’s one of the great sci-fi/horror scores. Return of the Fly is equally strong as a score and it’s not just a rehash of the first score, which is refreshing.
The Fly and Return of the Fly were both previously released in a box set on Percepto Records (which also contained Curse of the Fly, composed by Shefter alone), which has been long out of print and hard to find. For this reissue, we decided to just present the first two films, since they were made only a year apart and were both composed by Sawtell and Shefter. We’ve done some cleanup work and remastered the sound, combined a couple of shorter cues and removed the “Fox Fanfare” since it obviously wasn’t composed by Sawtell and Shefter. Both scores are complete - The Fly in glorious stereo, and the low budget Return of the Fly in glorious mono. So, turn off the lights and bask in the eerie glow of two classic sci-fi/horror scores by the great team of Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter.
The Fly/Return of the Fly is limited to 1000 copies only. --レーベルより
THE FLY:
1. Main Title
2. Retrospect
3. Napaj Ni Edam/Happy Couple/Matchbox
4. The Claw
5. The Morning After
6. Fly’s Madam/Phillip’s Disappointment/Another Experiment
7. Helene’s Discovery
8. Strange Story/Show Me/Help Me
9. End Title
RETURN OF THE FLY:
10. Main Title
11. Amen/To the Foundry
12. How It Happened/Leave Me Alone
13. The House/Cecile
14. Fly Fright/The Heavy
15. The Experiment
16. Goodnight Phil
17. Gone Detective/The Phone Call
18. Rat Monster/Getting Rid of the Car
19. Explain/Fight
20. Disintegrated/Francois Shot
21. The Fly
22. Barthold/The Killing
23. Allen Dies/Righting Matters/End Titles