"The Old Man And The Sea"

Dimitri Tiomkin Original Soundtrack

Full Length CD

Description: This 18-track CD is in excellent/near mint condition, the CD plays perfect. Minor wear to jewel case. Clean tiny drill hole at top left corner penetrating front of case spine only. The open case scan may be blurry. All original inserts included. UPC barcode: 706404002823. Please see pictures. See our other listings for more film soundtracks & broadway musical CDs. The pictures display the actual CD you will receive. Satisfaction guaranteed. We ship worldwide in safe, secure packaging. Please contact us with any questions for prompt reply. Thank-you.

Tracklist:

1    The Old Man And The Sea
2    Cojimar Harbor And The Old Man
3    The Boy
4    Fisherman's Cantina
5    The Old Man Loved The Boy
6    The Fisherman's Lament
7    And The Old Man Rowed Out To The Ocean
8    The Old Man Catches His Bait
9    Sunset And Red Clouds
10    I Am Your Dream
11    A Small Bird Came Toward The Skiff
12    In The Tavern At Casa Blanca
13    Just Before It Was Dark
14    The Duel With The Fish
15    The Shark Fight
16    The Lost Fight
17    Cubana
18    Finale

The Old Man And The Sea is a 1958 American adventure drama film directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy. The screenplay by Peter Viertel was based on the 1952 novella of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. Dimitri Tiomkin won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the film. The film was also nominated for Best Color Cinematography (Howe) and Best Actor (Tracy). The Old Man in the film is a Cuban fisherman who has gone 84 days without a catch. His only friend is a 14-year-old boy named Manolin, who has been barred by his father from accompanying the Old Man out to sea. On the Old Man's 85th day out, he finally hooks a huge marlin, which he then tries to haul in from far out past shore. For three days and nights he battles the fish, which is portrayed in the film (as it had been in Hemingway's novella) as a trial of mental and physical courage that becomes the ultimate test for him of his worth as a man. The director originally assigned to the film was Fred Zinnemann, but he withdrew, and was replaced by John Sturges. The film's budget, originally $2 million, grew to $5 million "in search of suitable fish footage." Sturges called it "technically the sloppiest picture I have ever made." According to Turner Classic Movies, a February 2005 CNN article points out that The Old Man and the Sea was one of the first films to "use a bluescreen compositing technology invented by Arthur Widmer, that combined actors on a soundstage with a pre-filmed background." The credits note that "Some of the marlin film used in this picture was of the world's record catch by Alfred C. Glassell Jr. at the Cabo Blanco Fishing Club in Peru. Mr. Glassell acted as special advisor for these sequences." Veteran film composer Dimitri Tiomkin composed and conducted the music for the film. His soundtrack recording, with the Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra, was recorded in the auditorium of Hollywood Post No. 43, American Legion, in Hollywood; Billboard reported that the acoustics in the Hollywood Legion were "far superior to most studio space in Hollywood and similar to that of the best concert halls." During the week of April 21, 1958, Columbia held open sessions for The Old Man and the Sea at the Legion Hall. The soundtrack was later released in both stereo and mono by Columbia Records. (wiki)

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