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AICN EXCLUSIVE: The Never Before Released Score For THE ENFORCER Is Coming Soon!!
Greetings! ScoreKeeper here getting dirty and increasingly hairy in anticipation of the latest electrifying score to hit the city streets courtesy of Lalo Schifrin’s signature label, Aleph Records.
On June 26th, movie music lovers worldwide can sink their ears into the premiere release of original music from the third installment of the Dirty Harry quintilogy, THE ENFORCER (1976), penned by composer Jerry Fielding.
THE ENFORCER marks the lone occasion where a composer other than Schifrin was tasked to compose the score for a Dirty Harry motion picture. Having previously scribed scores for the first two films in the series, DIRTY HARRY (1971) and MAGNUM FORCE (1973), Schifrin was unavailable to score THE ENFORCER which was subsequently delegated to Jerry Fielding. Schifrin returned to round out the series composing scores for the final pair of films, SUDDEN IMPACT (1983) and THE DEAD POOL (1988).
Here is the track listing for this exquisitely recorded album clocking in a shade over forty minutes:
1). Prologue • Main Title
2). Harry’s World
3). Warehouse Heist
4). Code Blue
5). Rooftop Chase
6). Raid on Mustafa’s
7). Kidnap Zap
8). Tiffany’s Number Eleven
9). The Shooting Nun
10). Alcatraz Encounter
11). Death on the Rock
12). Finale (Elegy for Inspector Moore)
13). Finale (Alternate)
The music from THE ENFORCER exemplifies Fielding’s brooding lyricism swathed in a rich harmonic tapestry stemming from Fielding’s jazz roots. Like other urban action scores from the 1970’s, jazz is employed as a primary vehicle to forward the narrative; however, this is not merely a one trick pony. In THE ENFORCER, Fielding further establishes himself as one of the premiere idiosyncratic composers of his time through an encyclopedic musical vocabulary sounding remarkably fresh even through twenty-first century ears.
Fielding’s career began as a bandleader in television before being blacklisted in 1953. He returned to Hollywood in 1962 at the request of Otto Preminger who hired Fielding to compose the score for ADVISE AND CONSENT (1962). His distinguished career is highlighted by such memorable scores as THE WILD BUNCH (1969), STRAW DOGS (1971), JUNIOR BONNER (1972), SCORPIO (1973), BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (1974), THE BAD NEWS BEARS (1976), THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976), ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (1979), and television scores including HOGAN’S HEROS (1965-66), MANNIX (1967), MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1966) and even a couple episodes of STAR TREK (1967-68).
Among the accolades accorded to Fielding during his career were three Academy Award nominations and an Emmy Award for HIGH MIDNIGHT (1979).
Aleph Records, owned by Lalo Schifrin, has released such classic film scores as BULLIT (1968), THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979), COOL HAND LUKE (1967), THE EAGLE HAS LANDED (1976), DIRTY HARRY (1971), and MAGNUM FORCE (1973). THE ENFORCER marks Aleph Records first soundtrack release by a composer other than Schifrin.
The CD will be available for purchase at retail outlets online and in stores as well as iTunes. Visit http://www.schifrin.com for more information.
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Are we sure this score isn't a fake? :O
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I think Clint has on more Dirty Harry left in him.
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The first two are uber cool, preferred the original release scores (the remastered clean-ups took some of the crunch and the echo chamber lo fi coolness out of the originals). Would love to see Shifrin return to the balls of those jazz/funk scores (Shiffers stuff is pretty tame now, with none of that 'old skool' patina that plenty of DJs like David Holmes go out of their way to recreate. Bullet, Enter the Dragon, Dirty Harry and Magnum Force are untouchable.
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I like Dirty Harry as much as the next guy who was born in the late 70s but...
C'mon... who cares?
This isn't cool news.
Then again, so little on here these days is, and you get all the pompous idiots running about talking about how soldiers ruined 28 Days Later and making me want to punch them in their adams apples.
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Dirty Harry movie by far. Gotta love John Millius.
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sorry guys', I meant Magnum Force. Fucking Tyne Daly.
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will be released!
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The Official Soundtrack of the feature film Sabrina -
Now you're talking excitement!
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DIRTY HARRY. Accept no substitutes. That's one underrated movie. Would be almost interesting to see a ROCKY BALBOA-esque Harry Callahan movie, though, if only to see what they did with the character. BUBBA HO-TEP sequel anyone, with Eastwood (replacing Ossie Davis) teaming up with Bruce Campbell?
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There's hope for me yet!
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Apr 24, 2007 3:23:22 PM CDT
If it's good enough for Lalo's personal record label...
by harry weinstein
...it's good enough for me. Goddamn right it's cool news, this guy's a Schifrin protege who wrote scores for Peckinpah and Eastwood. I trust Schifrin and Eastwood on music more than I trust any talkback poster on anything. This is the sort of stuff AICN needs more of.
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And an "Exclusive" at that. Wow. I didn't know this movie existed.
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...she's going to have to learn how to carry her end of the log.
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You laugh at me you bastard and I'll shoot you right where you stand.
Tyne Daly was just off the hook in this film. -
an exclusive ... commercial
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I am a huge fan of movie soundtracks. But the release of a decades old movie soundtrack does not, in my opinion, qualify as top news material. Definitely newsworthy, but I expect more out of the left column.
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My music collection was really missing this.
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Who cares?
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Doesn't that pic of clint look like Hugh Jackman? Just sayin...
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Not one of them is interesting enough to read. The most interesting stuff lately is the Joker and Hulk misinformation posts. And Herc's coaxial section.
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Pretty much all the "top stories" are advertisements. Doesn't really make we wanna visit here as often.
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Because it sure does most of us.
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Lets throw a Dirty Harry theme party. No, kids, its not THAT kind of party...
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What stupid news. A movie soundtrack to a film nobody has cared about in 25 years. Yawn.
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Why can't even soundtracks use the real poster graphics?
http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/enforcer.jpg
I know why floating heads are put on DVD covers - so that morons can say "Oh, it's the guy from 'XXX 5 vs. Predator', I'll buy it!" - but why soundtracks??? -
It's an excellent Dirty Harry film, and a under appreciated Eastwood film at that. It's up there with "Bronco Billy" "Firefox" and "The Gauntlet" as ones that deserve a second look if you haven't seen it in a while, or at all.
This is the "OHMSS" of the Dirty Harry franchise. Tyne Daly breaks your heart, and Harry's, in this film. -
For all you slack-jawed chumblenuts saying, “who cares?!” and “this is boring!”, let me explain why this is cool to film music fans. 1.) Jerry Fielding was an extremely talented composer who died WAY too young (he was only 58 years old), 2.) he composed some really cool, innovative, jazz-influenced scores, including music for Sam Pekinpah (The Wild Bunch) and Clint Eastwood, 3.) he composed for the original “Star Trek” (The Trouble with Tribbles and Spectre of the Gun), and most important, 4.) he has very few releases on CD, so getting ANY previously unreleased music from him is a godsend. And as a reminder to the ignorant 20-something dipshits who attack anything that THEY aren’t personally familiar with… it swings both ways, kiddies. Unlike many of you, I wasn’t a little kid back in the 80s who is now creaming his jeans because a fucking “Transformers” movie is coming out. Personally, I don’t give one-quintillionth of a rat fuck about the original cartoon or the upcoming film -- but I do think that having a new Jerry Fielding film score release kicks major ass, and a bunch of other knowledgeable film music fans would agree.
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I don't care if Gauntlet was a Dirty Harry ripoff. It was aweome. And Firefox, hell yeah. The first 2/3 of the movie didn't even have the plane, it was just an awesome spy drama. As a matter of fact I love the movie, but I gotta say it peaked the second he escaped with the jet. The rest was good, but up to then it was great. Plus we had Cliff Clavin driving a sub.
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Agreed, The Gauntlet is the shit. Same goes for Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. George Kennedy all the way.
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I especially liked the music in the scene where Callahan is running after some guy he needs to catch and then beats him up in the church. The Dirty Harry movies > most other movies.
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Clint Eastwood movies always have great music, esp. Dirty Harry movies!
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Tyne Daly's character's last words. Not the finest moment of feminist cinema, but she really was hot back then. Maybe tied for my fourth favorite Dirty Harry film. The first was a perfect stand alone classic but i sincerely love "Magnum Force". "a man's got to know his limitations" may be my favorite Harry Callahan catch phrase. And what the heck kind of name is Astrachan? (Though I swear until I just now looked it up at IMDb I always thought it was "Astrochan" *** Yeah, classic movie soundtrack albums are cool. Especially the Jazz ones. Now I don't feel so geeky for having all those early Bond soundtracks in my vinyl collection. Herbie Hancock's "Blow Up" soundtrack LP with the Yardbirds playing "Stoll On" rules.
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just can't bring myself to care. it's not like dirty harry was any real great series of films. it's a cop with a gun who likes violence and shooting people. whoopty freaking do.
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