Kritzerland veröffentlicht Hugo Friedhofers One-Eyed Jacks

[BigMacGyver]

Ein klassiker findet seinen weg auf cd:

Kritzerland is proud to present a very special 2 CD soundtrack release:

ONE-EYED JACKS

Music Composed and Conducted by Hugo Friedhofer

From the moment of their inception, some films are simply destined to become legendary in one way or another and Marlon Brandos sole directorial effort had legend stamped on it from the get-go. Based on the book The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider, the films first script was written by a young up-and-coming writer named Sam Peckinpah. It was subsequently re-written by Calder Willingham and then Guy Trosper. After viewing a movie called The Killing, Brando hired its director, Stanley Kubrick. By the time the film went before the cameras, Kubrick was gone and Brando was not only starring, but also directing. While the end result might not be to everyones liking, the fact is that the finished film is oddly compelling, poetic, and sometimes completely bizarre, and fully deserving of its legendary cult status.

The film looks gorgeous it was the final film made in Paramounts brilliant process, VistaVision, and the great Charles Lang was the director of photography. The cast also included Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, and the supremely weird Timothy Carey. There are some truly great scenes and some eminently quotable dialogue (Get up off the floor, you scum-sucking pig). But what gives the film a great deal of its luster and brilliance is the score by Hugo Friedhofer.

Sometimes the stars are magically aligned and a composer gets a perfect project, one that plays to all his musical strengths Friedhofers music elevates One-Eyed Jacks in every sense its passionate, beautiful, exciting, dramatic, luminous and one of Friedhofers greatest achievements, in a career filled with them: The Best Years of Our Lives, The Bishops Wife, The Rains of Ranchipur, This Earth Is Mine, The Young Lions (also with Brando), The Harder They Fall, Vera Cruz, Soldier of Fortune, Seven Cities of Gold, Violent Saturday, Hondo, Rancho Notorious, Broken Arrow, and the list could go on for several more pages.

One-Eyed Jacks was originally released on LP by Liberty Records. Friedhofer had all the scoring masters available to him and from these he prepared the album release (any thoughts of a 2 LP set vanished when the film did not perform at the box office). Obviously because of LP time restrictions, less than half of Friedhofers amazing score was on the album. On CD 1, we present that original album program, remastered from the original two-track album masters, along with two alternate cues from the full score. On CD 2 we present Friedhofers entire score in all its magnificence, in pristine stereo sound. To hear this score complete is a revelation and for Friedhofer fans and any fan of great film music, this 2 CD set is a must-have. This is the world premiere release of any of this music on CD. The booklet features new and great liner notes by Nick Redman.

This release is limited to 1200 copies only. For this release, we are offering this 2 CD set at our usual 1 CD price: $19.98 plus shipping.

CD will ship by the last week of September however, preorders placed directly through Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks earlier (weve been averaging four weeks early). To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.

Leider kein bernstein, aber friedhofer ist immer was feines.

[Bernd Junker]

Ich bin gespannt, inwiefern sich nun die "Monopol-Stellung" des Belgiers auf die Endkundenpreise in Europa auswirkt. Sollte man nun den ein oder anderen Euro mehr bezahlen müssen, weiß man zumindest, wo das Geld geblieben ist. ;)

[peter-anselm]

Die wird schnell weg sein, hab gerade geordert. Für den Preis ein 2-CD-Set...nicht schlecht

[Mephisto]

Auf alle Fälle super! Ich werde ihn mir auch bestellen, ist ja ungewöhnlich viel Musik zu einem Film für ein Kritzerland-Album.

[Bernd Junker]

Die wird schnell weg sein, ...

Natürlich: 200 für die Endkunden direkt über Kritzerland.com und 1.000 gehen nach Belgien.

[BigMacGyver]

Wieso eigentlich nach belgien?

[Bernd Junker]

Wieso eigentlich nach belgien?

Weil Kritzerland ab sofort keine Händler mehr direkt beliefert.

Alles soll nun über den belgischen Großhändler laufen ...

[Heiko Heinrichs]

Ich habe mir den auch bestellt. Ein sehr guter Score.

[Mephisto]

Aber trotzdem könntest Du doch deine 30 Exemplare am Belgier "vorbei importieren", da kann doch niemand was dagegen haben bis auf den Belgier.

[Bernd Junker]

Aber trotzdem könntest Du doch deine 30 Exemplare am Belgier "vorbei importieren", da kann doch niemand was dagegen haben bis auf den Belgier.

Natürlich ...

30 x $19,98 = $599,40

+ $40,00 Versandkosten

= $639,40

» €505,18 (heutiger Kurs)

+ €117,02 Zoll

= € 622,20

» EK €20,74/Stück

Und dann am besten noch für €18,95 weiterverkaufen ...

[Mephisto]

Und was verlangt der Belgier so ungefähr? Ich weiß ja nicht, ob Du überhaupt 30 Exemplare brauchst. Dann wäre der Zoll immerhin weniger.