Age of Innocence, The
Concerto for Guitar
Deep End of the Ocean, The
Good Son, The
Great Escape, The
Grifters, The
Hoodlum
Last Man Standing
Magnificent Seven, The
Return of the Magnificent Seven
Spies Like Us
Ten Commandments, The
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wild Wild West

It's a decent collection, though I know the man has composed more that just what I own. Heck, he's done over 200 motion pictures. What's available? What's a must-have? What are your favorites? and why?

Jeron

You read my mind Jeron! When I saw the topic line two words jumped to mind...

HEAVY METAL!!!!!

One of the best film scores EVER IMHBO

Thou shalt spend thy money on the following, cuz I said so, dang ye.

Frankie Starlight, on Varese Sarabande
Bringing Out the Dead, promo
Hawaii, on Tsunami I think (either way, it was released on LP, and I have a transfer)

The Comancheros, on FSM
From the Terrace, bar none the best thing FSM have released.
The Hallelujah Trail, on LP

NP -- Muzyka filmowa 2, Wojciech Kilar

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Originally posted by Racerprose:
North by Northwest.

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by ELMER BERNSTEIN!??

Admittedly, my only Bernstein score so far is Magnificient Seven (the Sedares recording, coupled with the Hallelujah Trail ouverture).

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Originally posted by JJH:
The Hallelujah Trail, on LP

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My God what a score...I ain't telling you nothing about it Jeron, just believe and go get!

Heavy Metal - great epic fantasy music
The Black Cauldron - incredibly dark score for a Disney cartoon
Marie Ward - also known as The Black Cauldron 2, musically to me at least!
Airplane - due to the parodies he does of other scores, not to mention the music that's not parodied is quite impressive for a comedy
Ghostbusters - another somewhat dark score for yet another comedy

An American Werewolf In London
Heavy Metal (a complete, excellent sounding legal copy)
Trading Places
Animal House
McQ
Funny Farm
Search and Destroy
The Journey of Natty Gann (rejected score)
Class
A Night In The Life of Jimmy Reardon
Going Ape
The Chosen
Meatballs
From Noon Till Three

A lot of scores I like by him, like Men in War, Where's Jack?, Some Came Running, etc. are only available on OOP LPs or CDs.

Given what you already have and what's available I suggest these:

The Rainmaker (recent Coppola film, not to be confused with 50s film scored by Alex North)

The Commancheros

Bernstein by Bernstein on Denon Records--these are re-recorded suites of the key scores, including Heavy Metal and Hawaii.

House: After 5 Years of Living--the absolutely great music from this short is available on 2 different CDs:
The Midas Run/House/The Night Visitor on Citadel records
The Films of Charles and Ray Eames Volume One on Amber records (Bernstein's own record label)

Summer and Smoke--this was reissued in Spain not long ago and you might be able to find a copy of it somewhere

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Lastly, despite the thumbs up from both Rocco and JJH, I'm not as big a fan of From The Terrace as they are

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Lou!
can't we agree on anything?!

Not Available to my knowledge:
I enjoy the main melody to Love With a Proper Stranger. I was going
to turn off an old 50’s soap opera movie tonight until the narrator mentioned the
music was by Elmer Bernstein, so I watched about 15 minutes of it before
we had to leave. The movie was By Love Possessed, and the music was
gorgeous.

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Originally posted by JEC:
Zulu Dawn

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Originally posted by Marian Schedenig:
There's a CD from the German semi-boot label Tsunami. I nearly picked it up once, but didn't in the end, and now I can't find it anymore.

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