The Misfits (Score) [Soundtrack]

Alex North (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 3, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B0002KQO4O
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,437 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Theme - Alex North

2. Rendezvous

3. New Life

4. Roslyn

5. Love's Reverie

6. Love Idyll

7. Paddleball

8. Reno Bar Dance

9. Compassion / Compassion for Guido

10. Help

11. The Round-Up (Disagreement, Round-Up, Chase, Tension)

12. Trying For Freedom

13. Resolved Part 1

14. Resolved - End Title

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Renowned as the final screen vehicle of both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, director John Huston's unsentimental portrait of a group of outcasts teamed in a metaphorical hunt for wild Mustangs in the American Southwest can also be seen as a bittersweet elegy to Hollywood's Golden Age. But composer Alex North (whose work here marks the beginning of a quarter century long association with Huston) eschews virtually every shred of traditional Western musical cliché; ironically, he'd beat out his old teacher -- and one of the chief architects of said American musical iconography -- for the job: Aaron Copland. North underpins the film's characters and their deep-seated conflicts with an evocative orchestral score that often turns on the composer's trademark emotional introspection, yet one whose sweep seamlessly encompasses romantic traditions, 20th century classicism, the jazz inflections of some of his 50's work and even some early rock-tinged atmospherics. It's a masterful fusion of melancholy and melodrama, rendered with North's impeccable dramatic instincts and attention to detail. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Misfits (score) by Alex North, July 2, 2010

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Dan P. Miller (Salt Lake City, Utah USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Misfits (Score) (Audio CD)

This beautifully composed music brings vivid memories of Marilyn Monroe's amazing, last film, which was written for her by renowned playwright Arthur Miller and husband at the time. In listening to the score and companion pieces on their own, you realize the importance of Alex North's contribution to this great American film.