a small little gem of a score. And completely different than Alien3, etc.

and the same for JNH's The Saint of Fort Washington.

I just love this score. However since it is from an cartoon I doubt many know of it.

NP-Driving Miss Daisy ****/*****

A few more:
The Old Man And The Sea (Bruce Broughton)
Anne OF Green Gables (Hagood Hardy)
Pelle The Conqueror: (Stefan Nilsson)

Frankie Starlight by Elmer Bernstein.

another ondes martenot score, but I don't mind. It's an intriguing sound, and I don't have much Bernstein anyway!

good score!

Others:

- Elmer Bernstein's "Spacehunter"
- Basil Poledouris' "Farewell to the King"
- Morricone's "Rampage"
- Goldsmith's "Powder" - great underrated score!
- Chris Young's "The Vagrant" - bizarre!
- James Horner's "A Far Off Place" - his last real good score
- Howard Shore's "Ed Wood" - best score for a Tim Burton movie
- Randy Newman's "Awakenings"
- Robert Folk's "Beastmaster 2"
- Yamashiro Shoji's "Akira"
- Danny Elfman's "Midnight Run" - his best effort to date
- Patrick Doyle's "Needful Things"
- James Newton Howard's "The Prince of Tides"
- Zibgnew Preisner's "Trois Colors: Bleu"

Glengarry Glen Ross (JNH)
Last of the Dogmen (David Arnold)
Carlito's Way (Patrick Doyle)
French Kiss (JNH)
Afterglow (Mark Isham)
Primal Fear (JNH)
Malice (Jerry Goldsmith)
Cinderella Liberty (John Williams)
The Chamber (Carter Burwell)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Christopher Young)
The Paper Chase (John Williams)
Blood In Blood Out (Bill Conti)
Sunchaser (Maurice Jarre)
Article 99 (Danny Elfman)
The Astronaut's Wife (George S.Clinton)
Mulholland Falls (Dave Grusin)
Teaching Miss Tingle (John Frizzell)
The Net (Mark Isham)
Devil In A Blue Dress (Elmer Bernstein)
The Crucible (George Fenton)
The Last Seduction (Joseph Viterelli)
Pacific Heights (Hans Zimmer)
M.Butterfly (Howard Shore)
A Walk In The Clouds (Maurice Jarre)
The River Wild (Jerry Goldsmith)
The Three Musketeers (Michael Kamen)
Cool World (Mark Isham)
The Manhattan Project (Philippe Sarde)
Extreme Prejuidce (Jerry Goldsmith)
Most Wanted (Paul Buckmaster)
Romancing the Stone (Alan Silvestri)
The Man Without A Face (James Horner)

Dr.Jeckyl and Sister Hyde - David Whitaker...never released

Into Thin Air - Lee Holdridge

Pan Tadeusz - Wojciech Kilar....no one bar me seem's to have this recent excellent release.

Haunted Summer - Chris Young

The Killing Fields - Mike Oldfield/David Bedford

A Far Off Place - Horner....nice one for noting this Andre!

Conan The Barbarian - Poledouris....wha's wrong wit you people, TONE DEAF OR SUMMINK!! .....am I d'only one who ever heard dis?....gowan out n'buy it

But Alan Howarth's scores for Halloween 4, 5 and 6 are the best of the series. He's developed additional themes and cues, and his scores are actually more listenable than Carpenter's because (though his scores are just fine). In fact, most of Howarth's music sounds almost acoustical. Too bad he didn't score H20. Ottman had some good stuff, but Howarth (in my opinion) is the only person who can correctly score a Halloween film

(P.S.: As if you couldn't tell, I'm a huge Halloween fanatic.)

NP: Halloween II - "The Shape Stalks Again" ****/***** (A more intense version of the original's "The Shape Stalks," as Michael Myers persues Donald Pleasance and Jamie Lee through the hospital.)

MEMPHIS BELLE (George Fenton)
FRANK & JESSE (Mark McKenzie)
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD (Rachel Portman, first time I noticed her)
PUMPKINHEAD (Richard Stone)
THE TRAVELING EXECUTIONER (Jerry Goldsmith -- perhaps unwise to mention a Goldsmith score at all, but it's like nobody ever heard of this one, although the decent-sounding bootleg, coupled with Goldsmith's excellent STRIPPER, has been out forever)
NORMA JEAN & MARILYN (Christopher Young)
BOSS OF THE UNDERWORLD (Akira Ifukube)
LATE FOR DINNER (David Mansfield, short but wonderful score)
DEAD CALM (Graeme Revell, still possibly the best work he's done in films)
CHILDREN OF THE CORN 2 (Daniel Licht)
THE HITMAN (Joel Derouin)

and,

Obsession
Taxi Driver
Under The Volcano
Cross Creek
King Kong Lives
Iceman
Return to Oz
Dragonslayer
Swing Kids
Old Gringo
Quest for Fire
Chaplin
Enemy Mine
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Boy Who Could Fly
Blade Runner
Magdelena
We're no Angels

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Originally posted by SBD:
SPACEBALLS by John Morris. A great score for an excellent comedy.

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"Marshall Flagg, Marshall Flagg
He does something and his footsteps drag
Younger folks keep makin' jokes
They'll be laughin' at Marshall Flagg"

I remember that from a TV screening of twenty years ago, so the lyrics are far from accurate ("He does something"...?), but I remember it like that.

I also seem to remember a badly composed (photographically) shot, in which someone stood behind Robert Mitchum with a burning torch and it looked like his head was on fire. Or maybe Robert Mitchum wasn't in it. I can't be bothered to check.

William Lava! Tell us something about him, John Winfrey! I think he contributed some library music to old Columbia films...

The Dark Crystal
Mountains of the Moon
DragonSlayer

All three of these are favorites of mine in the "lesser known" category. A few others:

SpaceCamp
The Final Countdown
Time After Time
Young Sherlock Holmes

SpaceCamp especially is a fave of mine. It's a Williams score. Every time I listen to it I keep thinking of what he could do with a Star Trek score.