Original released on LP ABC ABDP-848
(US, 1974)
Like Bernard Herrmann's "Citizen Kane", Miklos Rozsa's "Ben-Hur" and Elmer Bernstein's "To Kill a Mockingbird", one of the most influential film scores ever written. It's hard to imagine that Jerry Goldsmith actually composed this score in ten days. Producer Robert Evans was dissatisfied with the film's original composer Phillip Lambro's score that he scrapped it and hired Goldsmith to write a new one on the eve of the film's scheduled 1974 release. What's remarkable about this is that it turned out to be Goldsmith's best work in a stunning career: "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1961), "The Blue Max" (1966), "Planet of the Apes" (1968), "Patton" (1970), "The Omen" (1976) or "Alien" (1980), only to mention his most popular contributions to Cinema. One of the most beautiful and haunting film scores ever written.
