At the Piano Bar
Search: Too Marvelous For Words
by:
Artie Schroeck
Release Date February 08, 2005
Here's a release that's as appetising as a cardboard sandwich! Poorly
presented, woefully researched, it is a mishmash of dialogue - mostly
dialogue - and music from some eighteen of the Cinema's great film noirs.
Almost all of the 'Main Titles' are badly transferred to disc sounding
squeaky and distorted, and to add insult to injury, Max Steiner's beloved
Warner fanfare is missing from his title music for KEY LARGO, MILDRED
PIERCE, WHITE HEAT, THE BIG SLEEP and Adolph Deutsch's HIGH SIERRA and THE MALTESE FALCON. Strange this! Since Rhino Records have full rights to the fanfare. Also, the dialogue excerpts are OK but they jump from scene to scene in the respective films without any sense of unity or ...
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