My favourite film score ever. All JG’s 60s stuff was fantastic main theme from ‘The Prize’ is beautiful even ‘Sebastian’ is brilliant the score best thing about the film! ‘Trouble With Angels’ wonderful, the big three Goldsmith, Barry, and Williams absolute legends.
The full soundtracks from both films are here on YT and just happen to be my YT homepage for the last decade. I grew up watching In Like Flint and it was one of my favorites. One of the networks would show it annually in the 70s around my birthday in November. Our Man Flint was not shown as often...Both Flint soundtracks get played weekly for ambiance music in my house and my gal often hums along even though she won't sit though either movie.
Jerry Goldsmith's music was always a proper fit for the films he scored. The director's if they were smart let him go unleashed to create the music for the films he worked on. The variations on a theme is wondrous to behold. Its rarely done in modern movies. Our Man Flint and In Like Flint were and still are extraordinary film scores and Our Man Goldsmth was the only one that could do them justice.
I worked in HOLLYWOOD for 40 years as a studiuo historian for both 20th Century-Fox and MCA-Universa, among other duties, and I has so fortunate to have met several of it's most iconic music composers... Jerry Goldsmith was one of them, and I was a fan even as a child when he would score the theme of so many TV shows, but notably DR.KILDARE in the early 1960's. The man who could do it all no matter the genre, he had the gift and the talent. The score for PLANET OF THE APES was exceptional with his using mixing bowls and exotic instruments... LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER, THE OMEN and CAPRICORN ONE for their intense menacing themes. TV's THE WALTONS, POLICE STORY... LONELY ARE THE BRAVE, so many favorites. I'd often wonder wether it's Jerry, Elmer, Lalo, Hank Mancini, John Barry etc., I'd wonder where they get their inspiration from, especially if they hate the movie itself... the masters like Max Steiner, Alfred Newman, Victor Young and alike, they were under long studio contracts and they gave their best no matter what, and I'm sure all composers do, but again I feel they need to be inspired by the movie! Unfortunately today, movies rarely have memorable iconic scores... I as a Baby Boomer was blessed to have heard the best in the theaters when they were first heard by the world!
Jerry loved what he did. He loved writing music. He knew what he was capable of and held himself to that standard. He always gave his very best and treated every film as though it was Chinatown, even if it was just The Swarm. How wonderful that you were able to meet so many of the great composers! I cherish the memories I have of doing so much work with some many of them. Pretty much everyone who was still alive when my career began in 1986, including Alex North, Miklos Rózsa and Georges Delerue.
@@roberttownson9459 Robert, I was so lucky being in the proverbial right place at the right time... I got to meet so many people who I noted their credits as a child watching them on TV and in the movies... movie composers, writers, directors, DP's and FX guys, legendary people... Lalo Schifrin, is I believe the last one of that iconic group still alive, a group that was heavily influenced by Jazz, whereas another of my favorites John Barry, came out of pop music. I still have a record of him singing and playing with the John Barry Seven. We have a lot in common Robert, and I thank and congratulate you on helping to preserve and keep alive movie music soundtracks, I have so many LP's and CD's!
Too bad Coburn got tired of the role. Would have been nice to have rounded this out as a trilogy. And the real star, of course, was his caigarette lighter! "This has 82 different functions... 83, if you wish to light a cigar."
Galaxy a go-go in the film Our Man Flint is not the same as in the soundtrack. Also the beginning piece in In Like Flint film was not on the soundtrack. Why wasn't this piece on the soundtrack? To me it was the best music part of In Like Flint. I was pissed off. No class whatsoever (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!
