Rip of a Quartet 2-CD release.
Goldsmith's score for
Von Ryan's Express includes a not-so-subtle hint or two at what was to come in
Patton five years later. And a very brief look-ahead cue to
Tora! Tora! Tora! as well.
The program booklet discusses in some detail the compromises Goldsmith had to make--no, make that "swallow"--in getting his musical take on
The Blue Max to the screen. There was even an ever-so-slight chance that director John Guillermin would get the jump on Stanley Kubrick in appropriating Richard Strauss'
Also Sprach Zarathustra as
Blue Max's opening theme. This release has both the complete score, including a number of the unused or alternate tracks and cues the composer wrote for the film, and the final soundtrack.
Excellent sound.