Veröffentlichung Varese CD Club/Quartet Records: BLOODLINE (Ennio Morricone)

Alexander Grodzinski · 29. Februar 2016

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It’s 2016 and Ennio Morricone is 87 years old. He’s still a busy composer and also in the middle of a world concert tour celebrating his 60 years in music. And just last night he won the Best Score Academy Award for The Hateful Eight. For lovers of great film music, there could be little as exciting as all of this.

To join the celebration we are thrilled to bring our original soundtrack release for the 1979 thriller Bloodline to CD, in its entirely, for the first time. We had included some highlights from the score on our 1990 CD release of Morricone’s Red Sonja, but this time it’s all here! Bloodline features one of the maestro’s most beautiful love themes.

Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Irene Papas, Omar Sharif all starred in director Terence Young’s film version of Sidney Sheldon’s novel Bloodline.

Sam Roffe, president of a multi-national pharmaceutical corporation, is killed while mountain-climbing. It is first determined to be an accident, but Inspector Max Hormung later deduces that Roffe was murdered. Sam's daughter Elizabeth (Hepburn) assumes control of the company, and while traveling through Europe she immediately becomes a target as well. Suspicion falls on the Roffe cousins, all of whom want to go public with the company and sell their stock at a huge profit. Since this would be against her father's wishes, Elizabeth rejects their advice and decides to keep the company within the family. As Inspector Hormung investigates the background of the cousins, more attempts are made on Elizabeth's life. Hoping to reveal the guilty party, Hormung is able to connect these attempts to a series of murders on prostitutes, which are recorded on snuff films.

Limited Edition of 2000 copies

1. Main Title (Love Theme) (1:50)

2. Mountain Murder (1:45)

3. Corporate Maneuvers (2:22)

4. Out Of The Past (2:48)

5. Pills On Parade (Original Version)* (3:27)

6. Bloodline Murder (2:23)

7. Arrival At The Villa (2:36)

8. Bobsled (:37)

9. Death Threat (1:50)

10. Pills On Parade (Film Version)† (4:50)

11. An Almost Perfect Indiscretion (3:24)

12. The Trip To Paris (1:34)

13. Another Bloodline Murder (2:11)

14. Dinner At Maxim’s (2:42)

15. Reconciliation (1:20)

16. Lights Out (2:33)

17. No Accident! (2:08)

18. Horrible Discovery (3:25)

19. Resolution / End Title (3:46)

Alexander Grodzinski · 8. Dezember 2023

Kommt nun noch mal als Doppel-CD von Quartet.

Quartet Records and Paramount Pictures present an expanded and remastered 2-CD edition of 1979 Ennio Morricone’s classy thriller-drama score for Terence Young’s BLOODLINE.

Based on a best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon, BLOODLINE mixes bizarre stories of family inheritance, control over a failing international pharmaceutical company, family business, betrayal, infidelity, murder and snuff movies! It features a cast of international stars including Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Romy Schneider, Omar Sharif, Irene Papas, Maurice Ronet and Gert Fröbe.

Ennio Morricone was no stranger to Terence Young (with whom he had previously worked on L’AVVENTURIERO) and the studio, having just received his first Academy-Award nomination for DAYS OF HEAVEN. Morricone offers one of his best efforts for a Hollywood film, with an unforgettable love theme performed by Edda Dell’Orso, tension cues, dramatic and violent music. The score is mainly dark and fatalistic, in a style that the Italian maestro would continue in other Hollywood adventures such as THE THING, STATE OF GRACE and BUGSY

A 47-minute soundtrack album of BLOODLINE was released in 1980 by Varèse Sarabande. The same program was later reissued in their limited CD Club in 2012. Unfortunately, the film suffered several changes in the final cut, which moved some cues from their original places and omitted several important passages. Disc 1 includes the score as it was conceived by Morricone with music never heard before, plus some delightful source pieces for party and casino sequences that appear here for the first time. Disc 2 includes the newly remixed original soundtrack album as well as numerous alternate versions and extras.

The entire collection has been mixed and mastered by Chris Malone from the 16-track masters preserved in mint condition and courtesy of Paramount Pictures. The package includes a 16-page booklet with in-depth liner notes by film music writer John Takis.

Disc 1. The Film Score

1. Main Title – Part I (Love Theme From Bloodline) 2:31

2. Main Title – Part II (Mountain Murder) 3:17

3. Arrivat At The Villa 2:38

4. Pills On Parade (Factory Fantasy) 3:29

5. Out Of The Past I 1:48

6. Out Of The Past II 2:48

7. Out Of The Past III 1:05

8. Lights Out I 1:24

9. Bloodline Murder 2:24

10. Extortion 1:55

11. Death Threat 1:51