Soundtrack for an Australian film starring Kirk Douglas. Music composed, arranged, and conducted by Bruce Rowland. I don't think I've ever seen the show, but my high school buddy Scott somehow discovered the movie back in early '80s, loved the soundtrack, bought the album, and made us listen to it quite a bit. The soaring main theme is quite lovely and I'm 90% sure I played an arrangement of said theme with one of my junior high bands back when I made a living teaching in the public schools in the early 1990s. Scott's LP was also my introduction to the Varèse Sarabande label. I really wasn't looking for a copy of the soundtrack, but when you can buy a bit of nostalgia for 50¢ in a thrift store, you do so.
The soundtrack won prizes for Rowland in the category of best score from the Australian Film Institute as well as the Australasian Performing Right Association.
Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: Did not chart
Tracks: 14 tracks, 34 minutes. As with many soundtracks, you get two or three themes and then varients of those themes in all sorts of intrumention and tempi.
Personal Memory Associated with this CD: see above
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