I've always like the music to this movie. Particularly the thunderous title sequence. Johnny Douglas ( who would later do some great music for the Transformers and GI Joe cartoon shows of the '80's ) outdid himself when he composed this score and it really needs to be on CD.
shareYes, John Douglas's score for CRACK IN THE WORLD was probably the best he ever did that I have heard anyway. I wrote to a soundtrack producing label requesting it once and was told that John Douglas apparently didn't think anyone would ever see any value in his movie scores and tossed out all the sheet music he wrote for them. He saved the love themes to some movies including the one for this movie but that's all that's left. Title theme for this movie and all the rest, thrown in the garbage. Lost forever.
I agree . but at least we have the movie track enjoy the reason we liked it in the first place . full of power , and emotion. It would be great as a symphonic work but i suspect it would blow an audience away in the best possible sense.
shareIf the sheet music for the score has been destroyed it could be recreated from the score itself. I have several cd's of film music that have been recreated that way including Dimitri Tiomkin's full score from "It's A Wonderful life", Cyril Mockridge's score from "Miracle On 34th Street", and Richard Addinsell's brilliant score from the 1951 "A Christmas Carol". Just because the printed scores are lost doesn't mean that the score is gone forever. All it takes is a talented person who can read and write music to listen to the existing score on film and transpose it onto paper again in the original arrangements. It can and has been done very successfully before, and I hope that someday someone will do it here with John Douglas's score, especially his main title theme which is very powerful and very beautiful.
shareActually, if they would just record the main title theme and the sequence of them chasing the train to the gorge, I would be happy. I wrote to a company called Monstrous Movie Music who specializes in those kinds of scores and they told me Johnny Douglas had very little regard for his film scores. I think the technology exists to simply pull the score from the film itself and extract the dialogue and sound effects. Maybe someday.
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