Sunday, May 20, 2012

6 Pack Cinema vol II..chapter 3


Just getting things rolling & plenty on tap.

Onto the next nomination for best picture as I really went back into the vault some 80 years.

From 1935 Michael Curtiz's Captain Blood


Enslaved for treason doctor Peter Blood breaks from the chains of oppression & sets to the high seas w/ his band of pirates. A noble swashbuckler he & his men pillage for booty but it's Arabella Bishop's booty that almost costs him the loyalty of crew as he sets sail for the mouth of the lion who hunts them..I'll take a classic like this over shit like Pirates of the Caribbean any day.

Time to serve up the next award in this 6 pack for best music score or soundtrax – The Rolling Rock

 
Convoy



C W McCalls song convoy is a trucker classic. It makes me want to get behind the wheel of an 18 wheeler & haul freight across the country. In the 70s sub-genre of truxpoitation to have a movie made based on the song just sorta seems a natural fit. Although Sam Peckinpah's effect isn't necessarily successful you can't deny just how catchy that theme song is..Keep truckin good buddy!

Chopping Mall


Chuck Cirino's driving synth score is 80s glorious. It is a perfect fit for Chopping Mall big hunk of mega cheese & quite often is the best thing about the film loaded w/ ass wipe characters aside of Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov & Dick Miller.

Conan the Barbarian



Basil Poledouris score (especially the theme) is sometimes as grandiose as Schwarzenegger's physique. It gives magnitude to a character that is larger then life in a world of hot steel.

Carlito's Way



The soundtrax The Carloto's Way is loaded w/ great music from the 70s including KC & The Sunshine Band, BT Express, The Bee Gees, The Hues Corporation & Ray Barretto. Disco & a Latin touch that I haven't boogied so much since the last time I watched Saturday Night Fever.

Cleopatra Jones & the Casino of Gold



Funky w/ a touch of the Orient the score to the sequel to Cleopatra Jones is as leggy as Tamara Dobson. Even the theme song Playin w/ Fire that I questioned @ the beginning grows on you.

Chain Gang Women



I enjoyed the music by Bob Duncan & Ross Olmstead a hell of a lot more then Chain Gang Women itself. Catchy chain gang songs & wild banjos & fiddles had me smiling & tappin my toe. Jesus Can You Love a Working Man just might be my new theme song @ work.

..& the winner is

Carlito's Way


..let's Rock the Boat Baby. I hate to admit it but I like disco especially in film. Maybe it's just my love of the 70s. After watching Carlito's Way & listened to a shit pile of music from it & they became my soundtrax for the night's drinking.

Another dead solider.
Still more to come.

..Be back after this



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