No matter the season, it seems like archival film scores are always in style! The last few weeks have seen some killer announcements from La-La Land, Varese Sarabande and Intrada - offering expansions of some action/adventure scores from the '80s, '90s and '00s, plus a terrific new soundtrack reissue of one of the best scores in the James Bond series.

La-La Land Records promised a "remastered edition" of John Barry's score to On Her Majesty's Secret Service in a recent Variety piece - and it's now been confirmed that the label has prepped a brilliant expansion of the music! The sixth Bond film was Barry's fifth score for the series, but the first (and only) performance by Australian model George Lazenby, making his acting debut as Ian Fleming's literary secret agent. One of the more emotional stories in the series, OHMSS pitted Bond against the villainous Blofeld (played this time by Telly Savalas) and had 007 enter a star-crossed romance with a mysterious countess (Diana Rigg). Barry's score was anchored by a new, riveting instrumental title theme that would become part of the Bond canon, and also featured the stirring "We Have All the Time in the World," a love theme written with lyricist Hal David that offered one of the last vocal performances by legendary jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong.

An unreleased film version with Armstrong's vocal is featured on the new 2CD version of the Majesty's score, packed with quality material including a new transfer of the score from three-track 1/2" stereo masters. (Two tracks have been pulled from the mono film stems and given stereo processing.) The score presentation is coupled with a new edit and mix of the original soundtrack LP and additional unreleased cues. La-La Land's Bond dream team is once again on hand for this release: Neil S. Bulk is the album's producer/mixer, Doug Schwartz is mastering engineer, Chris Malone engineered the mono stem tracks, and Dan Goldwasser designed the package (featuring a new cover by Jim TItus and liner notes that include an in-depth essay by Jon Burlingame and a note from David Arnold, who composed five Bond scores between 1997 and 2008). The set is limited to 5000 copies.

Also coming from LLL are two revisited scores from another series of espionage novels turned into films: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan stories. The Hunt for Red October, the 1984 novel that introduced the quick-thinking CIA analyst, was adapted into a film in 1990 that starred Alec Baldwin as Ryan, working to avoid a confrontation between the U.S. Navy and a rogue Soviet submarine captain portrayed by Sean Connery. One of the highest-grossing films of the year, Red October featured a stirring score by Basil Poledouris (Conan the Barbarian, RoboCop), combining orchestra, chorus and electronics in full measure. Though previously generously expanded by Intrada in 2013, that presentation was sourced from backup masters on analog tape. For this 35th anniversary release, access was granted to the original scoring masters for a new mix, which also revealed a further 16 alternate takes or mixes never copied over. Those, along with the original soundtrack album presentation, are offered on the back half of the 2CD set. Neil S. Bulk and Dan Goldwasser (who also designed the package) co-produce this abum, mixed and mastered by Chris Malone with liner notes by Jeff Bond. It's limited to 3000 copies.

After two further Jack Ryan films in the '90s, both starring Harrison Ford, the series was rebooted to feature a younger (but contemporary) version of the character, this time played by Ben Affleck in a loose adaptation of Clancy's The Sum of All Fears. This 2002 film was one of the last major action pictures scored by Jerry Goldsmith, who brings his usual dazzling patriotic flair to the proceedings (along with vocal interpretations of his themes on the Yolanda Adams-sung "If We Could Remember," with lyrics by Paul Williams). Slightly expanded and remixed from its original expansion by La-La Land in 2014, this 2CD set also now adds a new remastered edition of the original soundtrack album, which featured alternate takes and edits of some cues. Neil S. Bulk again co-produces with Goldsmith's longtime engineer Bruce Botnick, who offers his mixing and mastering skills. Dan Goldwasser once again designs and Jeff Bond updates his previous liner notes, in a set limited to 3000 copies.

Varese Sarabande dials it back to 2002 for two very different expanded scores by two celebrated composers. The label first expands John Debney's action-packed score to The Scorpion King. This blockbuster action picture starred wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in an early role, reprising his debut role of the villain in the previous year's sequel The Mummy Returns - this time as an antihero, set more than two millennia before his appearance in that period film. Debney, picking up the series' baton from Goldsmith and Alan Silvestri, hones the action scoring skills that made him the highlight of would-be blockbusters like Cutthroat Island (1995), combining rousing orchestral ideas with exotic non-Western instrumentation and even some blazing electric guitar for flavor.This 2CD set offers an expanded presentation of Debney's score alongside a selection of demos, with new notes by Daniel Schweiger that feature insight into the score from the composer himself. Varese also offers an expansion of Hans Zimmer's score to Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men, a comedy-drama adaptation about a neurotic con man (Nicolas Cage) whose life changes when he meets the daughter he never knew he had (Alison Lohman). Scott and Zimmer had worked together five times before - including Scott's last three films (2000's Gladiator and the 2001 films Black Hawk Down and Hannibal) - but Matchstick Men marked their final team-up, and it sounds like Kaya Savas' liner notes (featuring a Q&A with the composer) might get into why.

Finally, Intrada has prepped a few '80s reissues and expansions alongside one Silver Age classic of scoring. They've reissued Bruce Broughton's stirring score to Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) - a remaster by Chris Malone of their most recent presentation of the score from 2019 (featuring a complete assembly from Eric Tomlinson's original mixes, a selection of alternates and a remaster of the original soundtrack LP) that's got a new cover design by Stéphane Coëdel. They've next prepared the first-ever release of Ernest Gold's score to 1961's The Last Sunset, a Western starring Kirk Douglas (fresh off Spartacus) as a wanted murderer pursued on a cattle drive by a dogged sheriff (Rock Hudson). Mike Matessino has restored this score for CD release from Universal's original master tapes; Frank K. DeWald has penned liner notes in a package designed by Coedel. Finally, Intrada has expanded Jerry Goldsmith's memorable score to 1982's The Secret of NIMH, former Disney animator Don Bluth's directorial debut. This presentation from producer Chris Malone reinstates eight minutes of missing music, sourced from audio stems of the original 35mm film stored in the MGM vaults and blended with the remainder of the original score sources; it also includes a reconstruction of the original soundtrack album as Goldsmith assembled it.

You can see all the track lists below, and order all these titles at their respective labels as well.

John Barry, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Music from the Motion Picture - Expanded Edition) (La-La Land Records LLLCD1667, 2025 - original film released 1969)

Disc 1: Film score

1. Gun Barrel (from On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
2. This Never Happened to the Other Fella (Film Version)
3. Main Title: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Film Version)
4. We Have All the Time in the World (Film Version)
5. Try (Film Version)
6. James and Tracy
7. You Have An Appointment
8. The Capu
9. Resignation
10. Two Weeks Leave
11. Prelude for Guitar and Strings
12. We Have All the Time in the World (Film Mix) - Louis Armstrong
13. Gumbold's Safe
14. The College of Arms
15. Journey to Piz Gloria
16. The Usual Comforts
17. Twelve Gorgeous Girls
18. Heraldry
19. Count Balthazar de Bleuchamp
20. Eight
21. It's True!/The Hidden Persuader/You'll Need to Be
22. Uncovered
23. I'll Do What I Claim
24. Deep Hypnosis
25. Escape from Piz Gloria
26. Blizzard
27. Proposal
28. Ski Chase (Extended Version)

Disc 2: Film score continued, original soundtrack album and additional music

1. Don't Be So Proud
2. Over and Out (Film Version)
3. Battle At Piz Gloria
4. Bobsled Chase
5. The Wedding Ring
6. We Have All the Time in the World - James Bond Theme (Film Version)
7. We Have All the Time in the World - Louis Armstrong
8. This Never Happened to the Other Fella
9. Try
10. Ski Chase
11. Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? - Nina
12. Main Title: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
13. Journey to Blofeld's Hideaway
14. We Have All the Time in the World
15. Over and Out
16. Battle At Piz Gloria
17. We Have All the Time in the World - James Bond Theme
18. We Have All the Time in the World (Unused Film Version) - Louis Armstrong
19. Journey to Blofeld's Hideaway (Unused Album Version)
20. Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? (Wild Instrumental)
21. Deep Hypnosis (with Full Overlay)
22. Escape from Piz Gloria (Mono Stem, Film Take)
23. Grand Christmas Eve Ball
24. Tracy to the Rescue (Mono Stem)
25. We Have All the Time in the World (Unused Album Version)

Disc 2, Tracks 7-17 released as United Artists Records UAS 29020 (U.K.)/UAS 5204 (U.S.), 1969
Portions throughout previously released as bonus tracks on Capitol/EMI CD 72435 41419 2 8, 2003

Basil Poledouris, The Hunt for Red October (Music from the Motion Picture - 35th Anniversary Expanded Edition) (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1671, 2025 - original film released 1990)

Disc 1: Score presentation (* not used in film; ** contains material not used in film)

1. Never Happened *
2. Hymn to Red October (Main Title) (Film Version)
3. Putin's Demise (Film Version)
4. Tyler's Office/Ramius and the Doctor/Dallas Listens
5. Course Two-Five-Zero
6. Interlude/Two-Five-Zero */Padorin Reads *
7. Ryan's Wheels/Tupolev **/Buckaroo **
8. The Line
9. Red Route I (Film Version)
10. Ancestral Aid
11. Plane Crash (Film Version)
12. Ryan Lifts Off/Emergence *
13. Two Wives *
14. Chopper (Film Version)
15. Submarine Dive/Necessary Force
16. Outer Doors
17. Nuclear Scam (Film Version)
18. Mini-Sub/Contact
19. Tupolev's Torpedo/Torpedo Hits
20. Kaboom!!! (Film Version)
21. End Title (Ancestral Aid/Hymn to Red October/Nuclear Scam)

Disc 2: Original soundtrack album and additional music

1. Hymn to Red October (Main Title)
2. Nuclear Scam
3. Putin's Demise
4. Course Two-Five-Zero
5. Ancestral Aid
6. Chopper
7. Two Wives
8. Red Route I
9. Plane Crash
10. Kaboom!!!
11. Hymn to Red October (Main Title) (Orchestra Only)
12. Putin's Demise (Alternate)
13. Putin's Demise (Alternate Mix)
14. Tyler's Office (Alternate Mix)
15. Course Two-Five-Zero (Orchestra Only)
16. Two-Five-Zero (Shorter Alternate)
17. Ryan's Wheels (Original Version)
18. Ryan's Wheels (Alternate Mix)
19. The Line (Alternate Mix)
20. Red Route I (Alternate Mix)
21. Ancestral Aid (Alternate)
22. Plane Crash (Alternate Mix)
23. Necessary Force (Alternate Mix)
24. Outer Doors (Alternate Mix)
25. Nuclear Scam (Orchestra Only)
26. Mini-Sub (Alternate Mix)/Contact (Alternate)
27. Kaboom!!! (Alternate Mix)
28. The Anthem of the Soviet Union (Vocal)

Disc 1 and Disc 2, Tracks 23 and 28 released on Intrada ISC 257, 2013. Disc 2, Tracks 1-10 released as MCA Records 6428, 1990

Jerry Goldsmith, The Sum of All Fears (Music from the Motion Picture - Expanded Edition) (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1672, 2015 - original film released 2002)

Disc 1: Score presentation

1. The Mission (Includes "If We Could Remember")
2. Do It!/I'll Go
3. The Bomb
4. 14 Months
5. The Deal
6. Thanks a Lot
7. That Went Well (Film Version)
8. The Shipment/Moscow Time
9. Nice Going
10. The Docks
11. Mrs. Spassky/The Lab
12. The Reservoir/Night Landing
13. Deserted Lab
14. Shoot Him
15. Changes
16. Clear the Stadium (Film Version)
17. Not the Russians/Man Your Aircraft
18. Further Aggression
19. State of War
20. Supplies
21. To the Docks
22. Real Time
23. Cabot is Dead
24. His Name is Olson
25. Snap Count
26. Maximum Readiness/Get a Doctor
27. How Close?
28. The Same Air (Extended Version)
29. If We Could Remember
30. The Mission (Excerpt, Synth Choir Version)
31. The Bomb (Synth Choir Version)
32. The Star-Spangled Banner
33. His Name is Olson (Synth Choir Version)
34. Theme from The Sum of All Fears (Synth Demo)

Disc 2: Remastered soundtrack album

1. If We Could Remember - Yolanda Adams
2. The Mission (Includes "If We Could Remember")
3. The Bomb
4. That Went Well
5. Clear the Stadium
6. If We Get Through This - Tabitha Fair
7. The Deal
8. Changes
9. Snap Count
10. His Name is Olson
11. Nessun dorma (From Turandot)
12. Deserted Lab
13. Real Time
14. How Close?
15. The Same Air
16. If We Could Remember (Reprise) - Yolanda Adams

Disc 1, Tracks 1-28, 30 and 32-34 released on La-La Land Records LLLCD 1295, 2014. Disc 2 released as Elektra 62786, 2002

John Debney, The Scorpion King (Original Motion Picture Score - The Deluxe Edition) (Varese Sarabande, 2025 - original film released 2002)

Disc 1

1. Never An Akadian
2. Boo!
3. The Scorpion King: Main Title
4. Tribal Council
5. Camels Are Smarter
6. Night Attack
7. Mathayus Meets Memnon/Fire Ants (Suite)
8. Escape from Ants
9. Cassandra's Vision
10. Savage World
11. Enemy At the Gate
12. Pickpockets
13. Failed Attempt
14. Wild Ride
15. Harem Scarem
16. Cassandra's Bath
17. Time to Go
18. Message to Memnon
19. Valley of the Dead
20. In the Cave
21. Mathyus Arises
22. Healing
23. Return to Sender
24. The Oasis
25. Balthazar's Camp
26. Vision of Doom

Disc 2

1. I Had a Vision
2. Cassandra Leaves Camp
3. Step Aside/Marching In (Suite)
4. Cassandra Returns
5. Veiled Threat
6. A Small Demonstration
7. Party's Over
8. I've Come for the Woman
9. Balthazar Arrives
10. Die Well, Assassin
11. The Scorpion King
12. Never An Akadian (Demo)
13. Boo! (Demo)
14. The Scorpion King: Main Title (Demo)
15. Night Attack (Demo)
16. Escape from Ants (Demo)
17. Savage World (Demo)
18. Failed Attempt (Demo)
19. Wild Ride (Demo)
20. Valley of the Dead (Demo)
21. Mathayus Arises (Demo)
22. Return to Sender (Demo)
23. The Oasis/Balthazar's Camp (Demo)

Disc 1, Tracks 2-3, 6, 12, 19-21, 25-26 and Disc 2, Tracks 1 and 8-11 released as Varese Sarabande 302 066 368 2, 2002

Hans Zimmer, Matchstick Men (Original Motion Picture Score - The Deluxe Edition) (Varese Sarabande, 2025 - original film released 2002)

1. Flim Flam
2. Ichi-Ni-San
3. Matchstick Men #
4. Klein's Office *
5. Taking Pills *#
6. I Have a Daughter?
7. Rug Dream *
8. Pygmies!
9. Suzi's Topology *
10. Angela
11. Ticks & Twitches #
12. Pool Lights
13. Nosy Parker #
14. Keep the Change
15. Roy's Rules #
16. Dad & Daughter
17. Con Artist #
18. Let's Do This
19. Airport Con *
20. Car Chase
21. They Printed You
22. No More Pills #
23. Obsessive Compulsive *#
24. Shame on You
25. Frechette is Shot **
26. Tuna Fish and Cigarettes *
27. Weird is Good #
28. Carpeteria
29. Closing #
30. The Banker's Waltz

* co-composed by Geoff Zanelli; ** co-composed by Jim Dooley; # includes "La Dolce Vita" by Nino Rota

Tracks 1-3, 6, 8, 11-15, 22, 24, 26-28 and 30 released on Varese Sarabande 302 066 515 2, 2002

Bruce Broughton, Young Sherlock Holmes (Music from the Motion Picture) (Intrada ISC 522, 2025 - original film released 1985)

Disc 1: Film score

1. The First Victim
2. The Old Hat Trick
3. Main Title
4. Watson's Arrival
5. The Bear Riddle
6. Library Love/Waxflatter's First Flight
7. Fencing with Rathe
8. The Glass Soldier
9. Solving the Crime
10. Second Attempt
11. Cold Revenge
12. Waxflatter's Death
13. The Hat
14. Holmes and Elizabeth - Love Theme
15. Getting the Point

Disc 2: Film score continued

1. Rame Tep
2. Pastries and Crypts
3. Discovered by Rathe
4. To Cragwitch's
5. The Explanation
6. Cragwitch Goes Again
7. It's You!
8. Waxing Elizabeth
9. Temple Fire
10. Ehtar's Escape (Revised Version)
11. Duel and Final Farewell
12. The Riddles Solved and End Credits
13. Ytrairom Spelled Backwards

Disc 3: Extras (1-9) and original soundtrack album

1. Main Title (Film Version)
2. Waxflatter's Death (Original)
3. Belly Dancer
4. Rame Tep (Orchestra)
5. Rame Tep (Chorus)
6. It's You! (Alternate)
7. Waxing Elizabeth (Orchestra)
8. Ehtar's Escape (Original Version)
9. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (arr. Bruce Broughton)
10. Main Title
11. Solving the Crime
12. Library Love/Waxflatter's First Flight
13. Pastries & Crypts
14. Waxing Elizabeth
15. Holmes and Elizabeth - Love Theme
16. Ehtar's Escape
17. The Final Duel
18. Final Farewell
19. The Riddles Solved/End Credits

All tracks previously released on Intrada ISC 429, 2019
Discs 1-2 and Disc 3, Tracks 1, 3 and 7-9 first released on Intrada MAF 7131, 2014
Discs 3, Tracks 10-19 released as MCA Records 6159, 1985

Ernest Gold, The Last Sunset (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Intrada ISC 521, 2025 - original film released 1961)

1. Main Title (from The Last Sunset)
2. Breckenridge Ranch
3. Reunion
4. O'Malley's Indecision
5. Crazy Cowboy
6. The Drive Starts
7. Breckenridge's Death
8. Fist Fight
9. A Friendly Hand
10. Lesson for the Kid
11. Dangerous Dreams
12. Stribling Takes Over
13. Quicksand and Journey to Sundown
14. At the Border
15. Missy Proposes
16. More Indecision
17. O'Malley Bows Out
18. Death Duel
19. End Title (from The Last Sunset)
20. La Mesticita
21. Concheros/Fiesta/La Torto Lito
22. Mexican Hat Dance

Jerry Goldsmith, The Secret of NIMH (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Intrada ISC 524, 2025 - original film released 1982)

* previously unreleased ** contains previously unreleased material

Disc 1: Film score

1. Main Title (Film Version)
2. Potion *
3. Allergic Reaction (Film Version)
4. Athletic Type (Film Version)
5. Flying Dreams (Vocal Film Version) - Sally Stevens
6. The Tractor
7. No Thanks
8. Step Inside My House
9. In Disguise (Film Version)
10. The Sentry Reel (Film Version) **
11. At Your Service
12. Tied Up *
13. Be Brief *
14. The Story of NIMH (Film Version)
15. Escape from NIMH (Film Version)
16. New Resolve *
17. In Disguise *
18. A Better Mousetrap *
19. Moving Day
20. House Raising
21. Flying High/Flying Dreams (Film Version)/End Title (Film Version) **
22. Flying Dreams (Demo - Piano Duet)
23. Flying Dreams (End Title Demo) - Sally Stevens
24. Flying Dreams (Demo) - Paul Williams)
25. Flying Dreams (End Title Foreign Language Version) - Sally Stevens *

Tracks 22-24 originally released on Intrada ISC 332, 2015

Disc 2: Original soundtrack album (released as Varese Sarabande STV 81169, 1982)

1. Main Title
2. Allergic Reaction/Athletic Type
3. Flying Dreams - Sally Stevens
4. The Tractor
5. The Sentry Reel/The Story of NIMH
6. Escape from NIMH/In Disguise
7. Flying Dreams - Paul Williams
8. Step Inside My House
9. No Thanks
10. Moving Day
11. House Raising
12. Flying High/End Title