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Marathon Man / The Parallax View

Marathon Man / The Parallax View

Limited Edition of 10,000 Copies

Film Score Monthly (FSM Vol. 13 No. 5)

Release Date: April 2010

Conducted by Michael Small

Format: CD

Music By

Track Listing

1. MARATHON MAN: Main Title

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 3:01
2. Tragedy At The Truck

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 1:33
3. In Hot Pursuit/Out Of The Race

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 1:21
4. Bellman And Pram

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 1:50
5. The Doll's Demise

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 0:53
6. Biesenthal Flashback

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 0:40
7. Soccer Ball

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 0:57
8. Elsa's Intrigue

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 0:38
9. Szell Arrives

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 0:29
10. Love Scene

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 3:02
11. The Letter

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 1:02
12. Airport

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 0:54
13. Resemble Diamonds / Fountain Appointment

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 1:51
14. Scylla Stabbed

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 1:54
15. Doc Dies

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 0:37
16. Nightmare Of The Past

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 1:24
17. Bathroom Terror

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 1:52
18. False Rescue

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 1:14
19. Betrayal/Drilling Horror

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 0:52
20. Escape

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 0:47
21. Chase Pt 1

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 2:09
22. Chase Pt 2

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 1:00
23. Urgent Phone Call

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 1:40
24. Calculated Risk / Gang Moves In

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 2:01
25. House On The Hill / Approaching Showdown

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 2:42
26. Jewelry Market Pt 1

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 1:25
27. Market Continuation

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 0:31
28. The Recognition

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 1:49
29. Szell Escapes

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 1:27
30. All That Glitters Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

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 0:44
31. Too Close / Essen

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 0:35
32. Diamonds Of Death

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 1:19
33. Babe Tosses Gun

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 1:55
34. End Credits

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 2:06
35. BONUS TRACKS: Main Title (Alternate)

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 3:00
36. Fountain Appointment (Alternate)

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 1:42
37. False Rescue (Alternate)

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 1:15
38. THE PARALLAX VIEW: Commission And Main Title

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 2:45
39. Morgue

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 0:53
40. Sheriff's House

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 1:00
41. Car Chase

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 1:15
42. Testing Center

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 1:08
43. Out To Sea

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 0:54
44. Slide Of Art/Austin Sleeps

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 1:58
45. Parallax Test

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 4:58
46. Art In Cafeteria / Suitcase Bomb

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 3:57
47. Gunmen Search

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 1:32
48. Joe's Final Run

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 1:32
49. End Title

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 2:02
  Total Album Time: 78:05

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From the Manufacturer

FSM presents two superb Michael Small thriller scores long requested on CD: Marathon Man (1976) and The Parallax View (1974), both from the Paramount Pictures vaults—two classic works of pain and paranoia from the 1970s.

A huge part of the success of both films is their music by Michael Small, a master of the suspense and subtlety required of these pictures. Marathon Man features a melancholy main theme for Hoffman's troubled graduate student and a foreboding anthem for Olivier's Nazi, as well as fascinating textural ideas such as pitch-bending strings, ominous piano and piercing synthesizer. The Parallax View centers on a skewered patriotic march for the Parallax Corporation, and features a five-minute pop-rock source cue, "The Parallax Test," for a pivotal recruitment film. Both scores feature arresting action cues that emerge perfectly from the atmospheric dissonance.

Marathon Man, although produced second, comes first on this CD as it is newly mixed from the original 16-track 2" multitrack tapes for modern stereo sound. No scoring session masters survived for The Parallax View, so its score is presented in mono (given a light stereo reverb for listenability) from the film's edited music stem.

The booklet features incisive essays on the films by Scott Bettencourt and Jeff Bond, respectively.

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