DAVID SHIRE / デヴィッド・シャイア / THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE / CD

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地下鉄ハイジャックの顛末を描いた1974年のパニック・サスペンスアクション。 デヴィッド・シャイアの超クールなファンク・ジャズスコアがマスターテープからレストア、完全リマスターで再発売!ARK SOUNDTRACK SQUARE推薦!限定500枚。

全米ベストセラーとなったジョン・ゴーディの小説を、『シャレード』のピーター・ストーンが巧みに脚色。とぼけた顔の切れ者ウォルター・マッソー、不敵なロバート・ショウら芸達者な名優を揃え、娯楽派ジョセフ・サージェント監督が放った犯罪サスペンス。知略を尽くした頭脳戦と、ドキュメンタリー・タッチで畳み掛ける緊迫感のなかに漂うユーモア。人質列車が都市を爆走するパニックと、忘れ難きラストの味わい。70年代を代表する不朽の傑作。

午後のニューヨーク。地下鉄のペラム駅発123号列車が武装集団にハイジャックされた。冷静沈着な元傭兵ブルー(R・ショー)率いる占拠犯4人は、17人の乗客と車掌を人質に取り、100万ドルを要求。猶予は1時間。1分遅れるごとに人質ひとりが射殺される。交渉役となった交通公安局のガーバー警部補(W・マッソー)は人命を優先させ、身代金の手配を市長に要請。出入口を閉鎖した構内には警官隊が配備され、無線を通して冷酷な犯人たちを相手に熾烈な駆け引きが始まる。
監督: ジョセフ・サージェント、出演:ウォルター・マッソー、ロバート・ショウ。1974年米。

Quartet Records and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer present a remastered, limited-edition reissue of the electrifying funk/jazz/groove masterpiece score by David Shire (THE CONVERSATION, ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN, RETURN TO OZ, ZODIAC) for Joseph Sargent’s famous classic urban thriller THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974), starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam and Hector Elizondo.

Based on the popular novel by John Godey, the film is about four men, dressed alike in trench coats, who take a subway car hostage and demand $1 million in ransom. In crafting his music to PELHAM, David Shire invented one of the most individual and exceptionally well-realized scores from the 1970s. Conscious that the sounds of the subway and excitement would crowd the film’s sound mix, the composer shrewdly elected to energize the frequency spectrum from below and above. The foundation of the composer’s hand-picked roster of musicians provides a pervasive, fat bass ‘womp, womp, womp’ ostinato with weight and heft courtesy of angry tuba, snarling trombones, electric bass and timpani; the ceiling comes from screeching reeds, explosive trumpets, tinkling (electronic) piano and feverish percussion. Drums, utilizing both rock and jazz rhythms, provide forward propulsion.

This David Shire classic never had an LP release at the time, although it was eagerly requested by fans throughout the years. In 1995, it was finally released on CD by Retrograde Records?the first album produced by Lukas Kendall, which led to the birth of the essential and sorely missed Film Score Monthly label. This new edition contains the same music as the previous edition (with around 15 minutes of music not included in the film), mostly in stereo with some cues in mono. The sound has been entirely restored and mastered by Chris Malone from tapes courtesy of the composer’s archive. The lavishly illustrated booklet includes an essay by Tim Greiving about the film and score, including a new and exclusive interview with Mr. Shire. Limited 500 copies. ---レーベルより