Score to Pursuit (1972).

Martin Sheen in Pursuit (1972)

As Scott Bettencourt writes in Film Music Friday, Intrada has released Jerry Goldsmith's score to the TV movie Pursuit (dir. and writ. Michael Crichton, 1972). In Pursuit, G-man Ben Gazzara seeks to thwart an extremist who plans to unleash nerve gas on a city. For more information and to hear some selections, go here. 

Film Music Friday: Whodunits.

Edward G. Robinson in
The Red House (1947)

The latest episode of Kansas Public Radio's Film Music Friday focuses on whodunits. Included is music from The Big Sleep (composer: Max Steiner), Chinatown (composer: Jerry Goldsmith), High and Low (composer: Masaru Sato), Knives Out (composer: Nathan Johnson), Murder on the Orient Express (composer: Richard Rodney Bennett), and The Red House (composer: Miklós Rózsa).

Film Music Friday: Chase films, Jerry Goldsmith.

"Top o' the world":
James Cagney in
White Heat (1949)

The latest episodes of Kansas Public Radio's Film Music Friday feature music from chase films (e.g., The Bourne Identity, The Fugitive, North by Northwest, The 39 Steps, White Heat) and that by famed composer Jerry Goldsmith (e.g., Chinatown).

Happy birthday, Jerry Goldsmith.

Noted film and TV composer Jerry Goldsmith was born on February 10, 1929. He died in 2004.

A student of legendary film composer Miklos Rozsa, Goldsmith possesses considerable credits, including the theme for The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the Star Trek films, Hoosiers, The Planet of the Apes, The Sand Pebbles, and most of all for mystery fans, Barnaby Jones, L.A. Confidential, The List of Adrian Messenger, Police Story, and Chinatown. I'll be playing some excerpts from the Chinatown soundtrack and Man from U.N.C.L.E. on the February 12th broadcast of "It's a Mystery" in Goldsmith's honor.