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©2001 Film Score Monthly
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Track Listings
- Main Title / The Super Sub
- Dive
- Lucky Man / Under the Sea
- Ice Block Collision / The Red Sea / Survivor
- Rising Heat / Catastrophe
- To New York / Nelson’s Decision
- Raw Nerves
- Brave Volunteers / Cable Search /
Dangerous Grounds / The Squid Attacks
- Alvarez’s Resignation /
Minefield Explosions /
All Back - Dead Slow
- Fire in Red / Fresh Air / The Ghost Ship
- Lunatic Action / The Burnout Point
- Enemy Torpedoes / The Monster Attacks
- Fatal Dose / Alvarez Acts /
Successful Mission
Bonus Material
- Main Title (temporary)
- Alternate Main Title (demo)
- Nervous Hysteria (damaged)
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The
wonderful folk at Film Score Monthly keep doing it and doing it so well. I
have always said that there is a lack of composers Bert Shefter and Paul Sawtell’s
output on CD. They have composed music to some great genre and thrilling films.
The Fly, Return of the Fly, Kronos (no not captain), It, The Terror From Beyond
Space, The Big Circus, Five Weeks in a Balloon and Jack the Giant Killer to
name a few. None of this material is on CD . . . yet. We await a suite of
Paul Sawtell’s music from The Animal World on the Monstrous Music label, and
some of Sawtell’s TV music from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (VBOS) has
been released but very little of this collaborative team’s efforts have found
their way onto our soundtrack shelves.
FSM
has gone into the Fox vaults and culled together the complete session tapes
to Irwin Allen’s Jules Verne like epic, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. This
is the kind of score we fans never thought would end up on CD . . . ahhh how
wrong we are. This is wonderful music; what I like to call real movie music
scoring. The music doesn’t pull any punches. It uses the Wagnarian leitmotifs;
meaning what we see on the screen is basically described by the music itself
. . . in my opinion the best type of scoring for films. Sawtell and Shefter
are well known for this technique and yet always delivering a wonderful melody
for the main theme in the process. Look at their scores for The Big Circus
or the Harryhausen imitation, Jack the Giant Killer.
The
main theme by Russell Faith and sung by Frankie Avalon, is used throughout
the score by Sawtel and Shefter. I might add that this music was not used
on the television show that Irwin Allen came out with in 1964. The swirling
movements of the orchestra as the Seaview is on the move are fabulous. The
perils that the crew and sub get into are caught up in this fabulous score.
FSM
has done a wonderful job restoring this score which contained a lot of wow.
But by using different film stems during the new mix, they have hidden a lot
of this wow. The music sounds wonderful. There is one piece in the bonus section
that they couldn’t get the wow out, but it really isn’t that bad and it could
have been left in chronological order. It is interesting to note that the
last track was not available; a 40 second cue. FSM has taken the last 20 seconds
from the actual release print and have skillfully edited it into the very
last track . . . superb. I highly recommend this release and only hope that
other Shefter and Sawtell Fox scores are released by the brave men at Film
Score Monthly.
By the way, the truly brave men and women of the NYPD, FDNY and our armed
forces overseas are the real heroes and we here at Cinema Concerto will
always remember that!
Marc Harwood
CINEMA CONCERTO
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