Intrada Showcases Unheard Treasures from Goldsmith, Steiner, Conti

Four never-before-released scores by three veritable legends of film music are the latest releases from Intrada over the past three weeks. Works by Jerry Goldsmith, Bill Conti and Max Steiner (with some help from a pair of Disney Legends!) are the order of the day!

Jerry Goldsmith perhaps enjoyed no greater relationship at one film studio than at 20th Century-Fox, where he composed some of his greatest works, from Planet of the Apes to Alien. Intrada's latest title showcases two scores from 1964: first it's Shock Treatment, a soundtrack full of typical Goldsmith-esque suspense and some early electronic work. The film, starring Roddy MacDowall and Lauren Bacall on either side of an insane asylum, anticipates some of Goldsmith's great strengths; ironically, some passages anticipate his work for Planet of the Apes. Meanwhile, Fate is the Hunter (sharing only a name and a hazy theme with the Ernest K. Gann novel of the same name) sees Rod Taylor as a disgraced airline pilot whose last flight left few survivors and Glenn Ford as his old friend who seeks to clear him of any guilt in the process. Goldsmith's trumpet-based themes and haunting arrangements were among the film's high points.

Excerpts from both scores were released on a long-out-of-print 2004 box set by Varese Sarabande detailing Goldsmith's time at Fox, but this new release greatly expands upon both titles, as well as sourcing each from even better-sounding elements.

After the jump, Intrada unleashes another Disney treasure and a premiere score by Bill Conti!

Walt Disney's Those Calloways was typical live-action Disney family fare of 1965, with Brian Keith and Vera Miles heading a Vermont family and working to build a sanctuary for the Canadian geese that would annually migrate toward their land. It's all light stuff, but it's bolstered by a strong score that not only utilized the talents of Golden Age legend Max Steiner (his final film credit) but Walt's favorite collaborators, Richard and Robert Sherman of Mary Poppins songwriting legend (who contributed "Rhyme-Around" and the "Cabin Raising Song" to the film's soundtrack). The songwriting duo of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans later added lyrics to a Steiner theme to create pop single "Angel" for Johnny Tillotson. (The Arthur Freed-Nacio Herb Brown tune "You Were Meant for Me," as heard in various Hollywood revues as well as Singin' in the Rain, also features in the picture.) This is the premiere release of Steiner's final score before his death in 1971.

Finally, Intrada premieres the score to the 1983 film Bad Boys, a drama set in a juvenile detention facility. Known as one of the films that propelled Sean Penn toward a prolific career as a dramatic actor, Conti gave the drama an urban flavor when scoring, and wrote some incredibly dynamic music for action sequences sprinkled throughout the film. But most of those sequences were cut, meaning audiences are hearing some of Conti's most austere music for the first time - not to mention a selection of alternate cues sourced from the composer's personal tape archive.

All three discs are available to order below.

Jerry Goldsmith, Shock Treatment/Fate is the Hunter: Original Motion Picture Soundtracks (Intrada Special Collection Vol. 237, 2013 - original films released 1964)

Shock Treatment Main Title
Home Work *
Broken Glass *
The New Patients
Night Scene *
No More Shock
Aftershock
Edwina Wants the Money
Martin Comes To
Nelson's Seduction *
Shot in the Neck (Mono) *
Another Treatment
Ashley's Plight
Nelson's Escape *
Hot Money *
End Title *
Main Title Effects
Shock Treatment Main Title (Mono) *
The New Patients (Mono)
No More Scock (Mono)
Fate is the Hunter Main Title *
The Room *
The Room Revisited
Moon Fish
Forest Scene
Night Scene
Fate is the Hunter End Title *
Bar Room (Source)
Fate is the Hunter (Jerry Wright Vocal) *
Fate is the Hunter End Title Chorus

Tracks 1-20 from Shock Treatment. Tracks 21-30 from Fate is the Hunter. * indicates track previously released on Jerry Goldsmith At 20th Century-Fox box set (Varese Sarabande VCL 0204 1028-6, 2004)

Max Steiner, Walt Disney Presents Those Calloways: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Intrada Special Collection Vol. 237, 2013 - original films released 1965)