GENGHIS KHAN Film Score LP 1965 DUŠAN RADI? Omar Sharif James Mason US PROMO Lib
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Description
Label: Liberty
Year: 1965
Country: USA
Vinyl: VG. Overall clean surface on visual inspection bar one or two scratches and some scuffing due possibly to this being an "audition record" promo. Plays well with no sticking or skipping.
Cover and sleeve: EX-NM. No obvious edge wear and colours are unfaded and clean. This cover art has been printed on unusually thick cardboard stock so has helped keep this item from undue damage over the years.
Music by DUSAN RADIC.
All selections conducted by Muir Mathieson.
This is listed as an 'Audition Record'. Promo.
Track listing
1. March of the Mongols (Main Title Theme) (02:14)
2. Always Your Hand (Love Theme) (02:30)
3. Escape from Slavery (01:50)
4. The Long Road to the Great Wall (02:57)
5. Bath à La Chinese (02:53)
6. Parade of the Mongol Horde (02:29)
7. Return to Peking (03:46)
8. The Emperor of China (04:59)
9. The Great Battle (03:11)
10. Death of Genghis Khan (02:30)
11. Finale-March of the Mongols (01:08)
Review:
Genghis Khan hit movie screens in 1965 at the tail end of a ten-year run of epic films on epic subjects.
While not up to the classics that had preceded it (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, Spartacus, El Cid, and others), it wasn’t really trying to be – in fact, it was more of a boy’s adventure film, but with a little sex in it.
It was one of many multi-national films made at the time, with an irresistible cast of actors, including Omar Sharif, Stephen Boyd James Mason, Robert Morley, Francoise Dorleac, Telly Savalas, Eli Wallach, Woody Strode, Michael Hordern, and hordes of extras splashing across the Technicolor and Panavision screen. As to historical accuracy – well, no. As to entertainment – well, yes, especially seen today. It’s one of those “they don’t make ‘em like that anymore” movies and one looks back on some of these films rather fondly. The film did not do well at the box-office and wasn’t well-reviewed, but seen today it’s a really fun adventure yarn.
Helping the film enormously is the grand, robust, and adventure-filled score of Dusan Radic. A Yugoslavian composer born in 1929, Radic had previously scored many films in his home country, as well as being very prolific in the classical world, but became known in America with two 1960s films – The Long Ships and, a year later, Genghis Khan, both of which thankfully received LP releases.
These LP releases were must-haves for those who loved and collected soundtracks back then.
The score of Genghis Khan is real old-fashioned movie music – music in classic adventure mode with themes galore, whether a heroic march or a beautiful love theme. Radic’s music propels the film from scene to scene, which helps the pace of the two-hour plus film immeasurably. It’s a shame Radic didn’t continue to work on American films.
This original soundtrack release of Genghis Khan was on Liberty Records. Although there was both a mono and stereo LP release, both were, in fact, mono – a stereo release simply never existed.
Just as with the film (they don’t make ‘em like that anymore), so it is with Dusan Radic’s score – they don’t write ‘em like that anymore.
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