Lassie Come Home: The Canine Cinema Collection
ARCHIVAL EDITION—SOME TRACKS INCLUDE SOUND EFFECTS...AND EVEN DIALOGUE! PLEASE READ CAREFULLY—THIS IS A LABOR OF LOVE One of the biggest stars on M-G-M’s roster in the 1940s and early ’50s was a precocious collie named Lassie. After the great success of Lassie Come Home (1943), the canine went on to star in six more films for the studio before transferring to television in 1954. Film Score Monthly’s Lassie Come Home: The Canine Cinema Collection presents music from all seven of these family films, written by a veritable “Who’s Who” of Golden Age composers. These talented and skilled practitioners of the film music art took advantage of the heartwarming stories, beautiful scenery and long stretches without dialogue to write extensive symphonic scores in the finest tradition of the studio. The five CDs are packaged in a single clamshell case along with a 28-page booklet (designed, as always, by Joe Sikoryak). The booklet features an essay by Jim Lochner on the Lassie phenomenon that provides the context for each film and score. An introduction by Lukas Kendall explains the challenges inherent in preserving and presenting this archival material. Detailed track lists and film stills are included, but even more information can be found online, with additional background on each title and FSM’s customary track-by-track analyses.
Andre Previn  (Composer),     Daniele Amfitheatrof  (Composer),     Elmer Bernstein  (Composer),     Scott Bradley  (Composer),     Robert Franklyn  (Composer),     Herbert Stothart  (Composer),     Bronislau Kaper  (Composer)    &                   3                  more   Format: Audio CD
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