Kritzerland Presents Special Edition Soundtracks for CARRIE, THE MATCHMAKER, & More

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Kritzerland Records has just announced their plans to re-release special editions of some of Hollywood's classic movies. The full list of upcoming releases, are below:

HUD (Music Composed and Conducted by Elmer Bernstein) and THE LONELY MAN (Music Composed and Conducted by Nathan Van Cleave)
THE MAN WITH THE BARBED WIRE SOUL
Kritzerland is proud to present a world premiere limited edition soundtrack release - two great scores on one great CD:

Based on the 1961 novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry (The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment), Hud featured a powerhouse cast - including Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal and Brandon de Wilde. With a screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., direction by Martin Ritt, and striking black-and-white photography by the brilliant James Wong Howe, Hud leaps off the screen from first frame to last. Bosley Crowther's review in The New York Times was typical, trumpeting Hud as the year's "most powerful film." The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won three - for Best Supporting Actress (the superb Patricia Neal), Best Supporting Actor (Melvyn Douglas) and Best Cinematography (James Wong Howe).

Elmer Bernstein's score for Hud runs approximately six minutes, making it one of the shortest film scores ever. But what a six minutes it is - in fact, it's perfection and just right for the film. Bernstein recorded his six minutes twice: once with a 12-piece ensemble, and then, a week later, re-orchestrated (by Bob Bain) for three guitars. Presumably the revision was at Ritt's request for a smaller and even more intimate sound - which really was the right choice. The music is sparse, yes, but it's potent every time it appears. There's also some source music in the film - car radios, jukeboxes, records.

Nathan Van Cleave's score for the 1957 western The Lonely Man is paired with Hud. Starring Jack Palance and Anthony Perkins (with a supporting cast of character actors including Elisha Cook Jr., Robert Middleton, Neville Brand, Claude Akins and Lee Van Cleef), The Lonely Man is a stark and somber western about a former gunslinger and his attempts to do something for the son who hates him and from whom he's been estranged for years. Well directed by Henry Levin (April Love, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Where the Boys Are, The Wonderful World of The Brothers Grimm) and stunningly photographed in VistaVision and black-and-white by Lionel Lindon, The Lonely Man may not be well known today, but it's a solid film and one well worth seeking out.

For The Lonely Man, Van Cleave came up with a beautiful main theme, for which Jack Brooks provided lyrics; Tennessee Ernie Ford sings the song in the film. The score has real depth and its secondary themes are dramatic, elegiac and poignant, giving the film a strong spine. The Lonely Man is a world premiere release on CD and is presented complete from tapes housed in the Paramount vaults. A few cues were taken from the music stem. We hope you'll enjoy discovering this really terrific music.

Hud/The Lonely Man is limited to 1000 copies only. The price is $19.98, plus shipping.
CDs will ship the second week of February. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.

HOT SPELL (Music Composed and Conducted by Alex North) and THE MATCHMAKER (Music Composed and Conducted by Adolph Deutsch)

How many women star in their first movie at age fifty-four - and win an Oscar for doing so? Well, that's what happened to Shirley Booth when she made her film debut for Paramount, reprising her Tony Award-winning role in William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba. Booth had already had a hugely successful theatre career and stage work is what she preferred, making only a total of five films before going on to become a TV star in the hit series Hazel. She made her final two films in 1958 and both of them are represented on this world premiere CD release.