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C. Bakaleinikoff, George Bassman, Anthony Collins, Adolph Deutsch, Hugo W. Friedhofer, Anton Karas, Lester Russell, Bob Lee, Jack Siras, John Little, Andre Previn, David Raksin - Legendary Film Noir Movies

C. Bakaleinikoff, George Bassman, Anthony Collins, Adolph Deutsch, Hugo W. Friedhofer, Anton Karas, Lester Russell, Bob Lee, Jack Siras, John Little, Andre Previn, David Raksin - Legendary Film Noir Movies

Band: C. Bakaleinikoff, George Bassman, Anthony Collins, Adolph Deutsch, Hugo W. Friedhofer, Anton Karas, Lester Russell, Bob Lee, Jack Siras, John Little, Andre Previn, David Raksin Title: Legendary Film Noir Movies Rating: Release Date: 25 May, 2004 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Angels With Dirty Faces 2: Roaring Twenties 3: Letter 4: High Sierra 5: Maltese Falcon 6: Shadow of a Doubt 7: Laura 8: Double Indemnity 9: Mildred Pierce 10: Big Sleep 11: Postman Always Rings Twice 12: Killers 13: Dark Passage 14: Brute Force 15: Out of the Past 16: Born to Kill 17: Body and Soul 18: Key Largo 19: Force of Evil 20: Lady from Shanghai 21: Scene of the Crime 22: Third Man 23: White Heat 24: Asphalt Jungle 25: Racket 26: Strangers on a Train 27: Macao 28: Blue Gardenia

Customer Reviews Skip this CD The short excerpts are very bad and fade out just as the tempo begins to build. This CD seems to have gone out of its way to trnsfer the worst VHS tapes to CD Audio and package it as classic film scores. If you love film noir, skip this CD. If you are interested in film noir, skip this CD. Great soundtracks "from the original films!" This is not a collection of restored and re-recorded scores by a modern orchestra. I feel compelled to respond to some of the negative criticism below. These are the original soundtracks from the films themselves. Given that they are in mono and suffer from age, they cannot possibly be judged by the same criteria as a modern recording. BUT, as a collection of noir soundtracks, they are superb. It's a huge list of title tracks from great films noir. And, as many of these are unavailable as restored and re-recorded scores, it is a wonderful disc to have in your collection. If the only scores you like are high-fidelity, however, then this is definitely not for you. But this disc also can't be judged by those sonic standards. For those of you who desire to listen to some of this more obscure film music--just as it would sound playing the video on your TV--then this is a great disc to have. Good for fans It's certainly not the most polished work, but it does have a lot of film scores and no fan should be without it. Given that there are very few Film Noir compilation soundtrack cd's available, I'd say this one works just fine for what it is. I'm glad I bought it. . You can see a complete list of all C. Bakaleinikoff, George Bassman, Anthony Collins, Adolph Deutsch, Hugo W. Friedhofer, Anton Karas, Lester Russell, Bob Lee, Jack Siras, John Little, Andre Previn, David Raksin discography, or go back to the C. Bakaleinikoff, George Bassman, Anthony Collins, Adolph Deutsch, Hugo W. Friedhofer, Anton Karas, Lester Russell, Bob Lee, Jack Siras, John Little, Andre Previn, David Raksin tabs