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Getaway: The Unused Score (Bonus Dvd)
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks

Track Listings (17) - Disc #1
1. Benyon's World
2. The Water Hole
3. Doc And Carol
4. Casing The Joint
5. The Bank Robbery
6. Bullet Proof
7. Payoff
8. Bag Theft
9. Laughlin's
10. Punch It, Baby
11. Shall We Gather At The River
12. Texas Trash Heap
13. Hombres
14. Money Talks
15. Hotel Confrontation
16. End Credits
17. Special Free Bonus DVD: MAIN TITLE 1M1: Jerry Fielding, Sam Peckinpah And The Getaway

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Getaway: The Unused Score (Bonus Dvd)
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Film Score Monthly
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 3/14/2006
Album Type: Soundtrack
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks
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Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 638558020821

Synopsis

Album Description

Composed and conducted by Jerry Fielding. As a special bonus, this CD package includes a bonus promotional item not for sale separately: a DVD of the half-hour documentary, Main Title 1M1: Jerry Fielding, Sam Peckinpah and The Getaway, a highly personal reminiscence by three of the women in Jerry Fielding's life: his wife Camille, daughter Elizabeth, and Peckinpah confidante Katy Haber. (Please note: This is an ALL REGION NTSC DVD, which means it will play on an ALL REGION DVD player.) Liner notes by Peckinpah authority Nick Redman -- who produced this album and directed the documentary film -- provide a wealth of historical detail, and exact timings for relating the music to the motion picture. This is a must-have package for fans of Peckinpah, Fielding, and '70s cinema.

CD Reviews

Fielding's Score for 'The Getaway'.

Paul A. Lewis | United Kingdom | 07/26/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Peckinpah's 'The Getaway' suffered very little interference from the studio. Reputedly, when he saw the rough cut the film's star Steve McQueen demanded some alternate takes be used because they showed him in a better light. However, unlike other Peckinpah-helmed pictures such as 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid' and 'Major Dundee', 'The Getaway' escaped from the clutches of the studio relatively unscathed. However, the studio did demand one major change: Jerry Fielding had composed a score for the movie, but the studio decided to abandon it in favour of a new score which was composed by Quincy Jones.

Whilst Jones' music for the film is almost iconic of early-1970s action cinema, Fielding's original score for the film (represented on this CD) is very different and feels more like the kind of score that Peckinpah would have used, together with a reworking of 'Shall We Gather at the River', a song that crops up in several of Peckinpah's films (usually used by Peckinpah as an ironic homage to John Ford's idealistic representation of the community).

For me, Fielding's score surpasses Jones' work for the film, and I particularly enjoyed the music Fielding composed for the heist sequence, which is tense and somewhat similar to the music Fielding composed for Starbuck bank robbery in the opening scenes of 'The Wild Bunch'.

The CD also contains a short documentary about the scoring of the film.

So this isn't Quincy Jones' score for 'The Getaway', but it *is* a fascinating insight into the movie that could-have-been. If only Fielding's music could be re-integrated into the movie: I'd love to see how the score plays out alongside the finished edit of the film."