The Eagle Has Landed: Original Film Score [Soundtrack]

the eagle has landed: original film score [soundtrack]

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Original film score from 1978 movie starring Robert Duvall, Michael Caine & Donald Sutherland. Aleph Records.

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The Eagle Has Landed: Original Film Score [Soundtrack]
The Eagle Has Landed: Original Film Score
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • The Eagle Has Arrived!
  • GREAT SOUNDTRACK
 The Eagle Has Landed: Original Film Score
Lalo Schifrin
Manufacturer: Aleph Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000I9WM
Release Date: 1999-04-06

Tracks:

  1. Main Title
  2. Eagle Falls In Love
  3. The Eagle's Enemy
  4. The Eagle Grows (Part 1)
  5. Steiner
  6. Eagle Goes To Church
  7. The Eagle Grows (Part 2)
  8. Eagle In Danger
  9. The Swan
  10. The Eagle's Bite
  11. Flight Of The Eagles
  12. Eagle's Resolution
  13. Eagles Are Landing
  14. Eagle Discovered
  15. Eagle Versus Fox
  16. Paratrooper Plays Organ
  17. The Hound
  18. Dogs
  19. End Credits (March)

Album Description

Original film score from 1978 movie starring Robert Duvall, Michael Caine & Donald Sutherland. Aleph Records.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The Eagle Has Arrived!.......2000-02-23

This is an album I've been looking for for a long time, mainly on account of the "March." This is a rousing, military theme, stated early on in the "Main Title," but only cropping up in muted form for the rest of the album, most notably in "The Hounds." But it also recurs in unusual ways: in "Eagle Goes to Church," it's played on recorders, and in one cue, it's played on a church organ. It's a splendid theme, and I wish it could get fuller development somewhere other than the end credits.

A second theme is what the notes to the album call the "obsession" theme, a pouding, rhythmic pulse that occurs frequently throughout. A third motif is a trill on an instrument called a cymbalom. That's actually quite distinctive of this soundtrack -- it's easy to recall the poignant moments of the movie being punctuated by that unusual sound. There's also a love theme that's adequate, and unusual in that it features a whistler.

Schifrin's style sometimes seems a bit naive, I think. The rhythm of the military music seems a bit too obvious, and the use of dissonance is a little too frequent to make for pleasant listening. On those grounds, I think I'd cut the cues called "Steiner," "The Eagle's Bite (Part 2)," "The Eagle's Bite," and "Dogs." The latter features the piercing whistle with which the Donald Sutherland character tames the guard dogs at the end of the movie. I thought a human being probably couldn't make that noise, and it's horrible. It sounds like someone driving spikes into my ears. The rest of the cues are wonderful.

There are occasionally echoes of others of Schifrin's work. "The Eagle's Bite" sounds like the crazy person music from "Dirty Harry," for example, and "Flight of Eagles" features snare drums with high woodwinds that is reminiscent of the incidental music to "Mission: Impossible."

Overall, I'd give this soundtrack a high rating, but it loses a star for the dissonance, and particularly the awful noise in "Dogs."

4 out of 5 stars GREAT SOUNDTRACK.......1999-11-09

I've always loved this flick and the music is really evocative and adventurous. The Main Title theme alone is worth the buy.

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