Movie-Title

1964

LP: 20th Century Fox TFM 3128

1. Chicken Delhi Cold (3:05)
2. Kate's Blues (5:20)
3. Barney's Blues (3:07)

The Movie

I got to see about 1/4 of this one night and wished I could have finished it. Robert Mitchum is forced to defend a disturbed american GI (Keenan Wynn) in a British military court. It was interesting because most courtroom dramas have very sympathetic defendants, but Keenan Wynn was just a prick--at least for the part that I saw. So it had some novelty going for it. If it ever runs again (yeah, right) I'll definitely watch it.

The Music

This appears to be a similar deal to From Russia with Love, where Lionel Bart wrote the title song and Barry conducted it; and Barry composed, arranged and conducted the rest. "Chicken Delhi Cold" is reminiscent of Barry's King Rat work to my mind. The other two Barry pieces are big-band jazz.

Release Notes

This got an LP release an promptly disappeared. It is hard to find and pricey. Note that the track listing numbers aren't right--my copy of the LP is in storage. I'll correct the track numbers when I can. As far as I know, the music is not available anywhere else.