1941: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Composer: John WilliamsConductor: John Williams
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1997-09-09
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- The March From '1941'
- The Invasion
- The Sentries
- Riot At The U.S.O.
- To Hollywood And Glory
- Swing, Swing, Swing
- The Battle Of Hollywood
- The Ferris Wheel Sequence
- Finale
Music reviews of 1941: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Review: A Case Of The Score Outshining The Film
Rating: 4 Stars
There are very few instances in Hollywood where a film score is actually better, if not more memorable, than the film it goes with. But when it comes to "1941", this is one of those instances.
Alongside the collaborations of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, and Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone, no director/composer pairing has ever been as consistently and mutually stimulating as the one Steven Spielberg developed with John Williams. It had begun in 1974 with the Americana-type score for THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS, continued on with the menacing, cello-driven music of JAWS in 1975, and then to ethereal music of the spheres for 1977's CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. Williams had enjoyed success working for others as well, including Spielberg's good pal George Lucas on the STAR WARS films and on Irwin Allen's disaster classics THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE and THE TOWERING INFERNO, but it was with Spielberg that his genius clearly flourished. And for "1941", he provided a particularly spectacular, rather over-the-top and semi-comic marital military score to accompany the proceedings of the comical paranoia undergone by the populace of L.A. when a Japanese sub surfaces off the coast less than a week after Pearl Harbor. Of particular note is the jaunty March, which has gained a certain cachet for being so brazenly anarchic.
As such, it is not surprising that Williams should have come up with something this splendid, even if it was outside what many would call his own "comfort zone." The problem, however, is that the film it goes with just happens to be arguably its director's worst. With a lot of painful mugging from a cast that included John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, plus the wholesale wanton destruction of Los Angeles, but minus any real sustained laughs, "1941" went well over budget and schedule, and was thoroughly roasted by critics and audiences alike upon its release at the end of 1979. The film's standing has improved somewhat over time, but in general it is still not well thought of. Williams' score, however, was cited as a true high point of "1941"; and this recording proves that rather well.
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