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THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL
Having just watched this 'unusual' movie with two legendary actors together for the first time and some wonderful Jerry Goldsmith film scoring, I must admit that this is one of the few Jerry Goldsmith scores I do not possess and would like to eventually.
According to SC's database, this score has received two identical official CD releases, one Canadian and one Japanese, with only 3 tracks and 1 song totalling nearly 40 minutes of music.
I highly doubt that this is the complete film score.
Just wondering... has there been any type of release with the COMPLETE SCORE for ''The Boys From Brazil''???
If not, this Jerry Goldsmith film score gem should finally and officially receive the expanded & remastered complete score treatment soon damn it!
Cheers!...
serifiot, May 27, 2007; 3:05 PM
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I completely agree!
I've heard rumours that a Laser Disc of this movie with isolated score does exist. I don't know if this is true, but a bootleg with the complete score (and poor sound quality) floats over there...
In my opinion, this is the kind of soundtrack that INTRADA uses to surprise us with from time to time :-)
I cross my fingers...
angeldibujo, May 27, 2007; 7:04 PM

Hi Angel!
Indeed "The Boys From Brazil" laserdisc you mentioned seems to have been released in 1997 with an isolated score as one of its features.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077269/laserdisc
This particular laserdisc is out of print and hard to track down.
Now I'm only assuming even though it is not always the case, since there was a laserdisc isolated score available once, that some type of a decently sounding complete score CD release must be available as well... officially or unofficially.
Wishful thinking?...
;- )
serifiot, May 27, 2007; 9:48 PM

I have this laserdisc and unfortunately this is not a isolated score ! Most correctly this is a isolated soundtrack music, it means re-worked music tapes during sound mixing in sound department to feeting the level of music with dialogues & sound effects, so the result is an unstable sound level, sometimes music is high & sometimes down as you can heard in the movie; so forget about a CD after laserdisc (actual poor bootleg CD is recorded from laserdisc). Maybe company don't wanted spend time and money to search for original tapes and work on it to record on the laserdisc! Lets hope the real scoring sessions recordings tapes is kept safe & sound somewhere in Fox music department.
filmmusicparis, May 28, 2007; 1:18 PM

I may be able to shed some light as to the cause of lack of complete score.
The Boys From Brazil is an ITC feature, it is only 20th Century Fox in North America & certain other countries. By and large the film was issued by a number of companies at various points in it's life.
As with Capricorn One & many others from the ITC stable, the rights to such features are in a bit of a mess.
The films were produced by Lord Lew Grade, who often ran part or all of the films with some connection to his TV studio/comany ATV. In the late 70's/early 80's ATV lost it's franchise licence & became Carlton TV who along with Granada TV bouht up most of the other companies in the UK & pretty much run the whole Independent Television Network.
what this means is that a lot of the product co owned or under some kind of ITC/ATV banner are basically in distribution hell, often happens, where so many parties are involved in 1 product, who owns what & where etc.
I know when I worked on the promotion for Boys From Brazil & Raise The Titanic, we had to be careful what art we were using as it was often paid for by someone else for a different county etc etc.
The only up beat thing about all this, is that as Intrada crack'd the Capricone One situation, I would not be too surprised if Boys From Brazil were in a similar copy right situation & maybe something they have tucked away for a release.
No I have no inside information on this, just a theory.
But I do know that ATV had a lot of ITC items in their storage, so maybe thats where the orginal tracks were, but who knows with the take overs etc??
It's possible a case where it has all become so complicated that how much is it really worth in lawyer fees etc to put out?
A sad situation but often the case with films in general.
Well what ever you are listening to, enjoy the music.
regards
Andy b
ajbjmdb, May 28, 2007; 11:24 PM

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