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Demetrius and the Gladiators (CD) \| Kritzerland \| KR200276

Category: original soundtrack

Composer: - Franz Waxman


Price: € 21,6		Available	Format: CD Audio


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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

Demetrius and the Gladiators was a shrewd attempt to capitalize on the historic success of the first CinemaScope picture, The Robe. Even before The Robe opened, the canny Twentieth Century Fox production chief, Darryl F. Zanuck, had Demetrius and the Gladiators under way. Robe veterans, writer Philip Dunne, producer Frank Ross, art directors George W. Davis and Lyle Wheeler, and actors Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, and Jay Robinson were now freshly energized by newcomers; director Delmer Daves, cinematographer Milton Krasner, and composer Waxman replaced their counterparts still occupied on The Robe: Henry Koster, Leon Shamroy, and Newman.

The surprise is that, while The Robe eclipsed its successor in its day, decades later, it looks like Demetrius is, in fact, what screenwriter Philip Dunne called it: ''a far better pure movie.'' And one of the true pleasures of the film is Franz Waxman's tantalizing score, which, while incorporating several of Alfred Newman's incomparably majestic themes from The Robe, nevertheless manages to display a modernist élan and power all its own. Demetrius and the Gladiators was this fabulously versatile composer's first Biblical epic; as usual, he adapted his talents to a new genre with superbly dramatic dexterity. Beginning with a pulse-pounding ''Prelude'' which twines Newman's themes with his own, Waxman moves on to one stunning cue after another.

Demetrius and the Gladiators has undergone a long overdue full digital restoration using the best that state-of-the-art audio technology can offer. Restoration and remixing was undertaken at 96k 24bit resolution. Sadly, three cues from the score had completely deteriorated by the time the original reels were transferred in 1997: ''Kneel to Your God'' (6m3/7m1), ''Temptation'' (7m2), and ''The Kiss'' (8m1). Using the original 4-track stereo audio for the film itself, we have rescued brief segments of these, which were unmarred by dialogue and sound effects and included them in the program in order to present as much of the score as possible. An additional excerpt of ''Temptation,'' with sound effects but no dialogue, is included as a bonus track. Also in the bonus section is the deteriorated stereo version of the cue ''Claudius and Caligula,'' while the main program features a more sonically palatable monaural mix. Every effort has been made to bring out its original brilliance so that, as a listening experience, Demetrius may take its rightful place beside recent musical restorations of other Fox Biblical epics of the period.

Track listing

1. Prelude
2. Night in the Palace
3. Messalina
4. Claudius
5. The Catacombs
6. The Slave Market / Roman Police
7. Lucia
8. Claudius and Messalina
9. Wait
10. Torch Dancers / Egyptian Dancers
11. Caligula Enters
12. Gladiator March
13. The Victors
14. After the Fight
15. Messalina at Home
16. Temptation (excerpt)
17. At the Pottery / The Gladiator's Party
18. The Kiss (excerpt) / Fanfare for Gladiator's Entrance
19. Victory
20. Temple of Isis
21. Claudius and Caligula (mono source)
22. Messalina and Demetrius
23. Peter's Return
24. Caligula's Rage
25. Return to Faith
26. The Dungeon - Glycon
27. Caligula's Death
28. Gloria

BONUS TRACKS

29. Temporary Dance Track
30. Temporary Fanfares
31. Arena Fanfare
32. Caligula's Death (unused percussion)
33. Claudius and Caligula (stereo - damaged)
34. Temptation (excerpt with sound effects)
35. Gloria (orchestra only)

	Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)

Aka:	- Demetrio e i gladiatori - Demetrius y los gladiadores - Les gladiateurs

Genre:	- Action
Music:	- Franz Waxman

Director:	- Delmer Daves

Actors:	- Victor Mature - Susan Hayward - Michael Rennie