Two major soundtracks have been released by Film Score Monthly on one limited edition CD. The Bridge At Remagen features one of master composer Elmer Bernstein's most requested scores, but a soundtrack LP was never issued to tie in with the release of the 1969 war film that depicted the fall of the last bridge leading into Nazi Germany. The big budget film was largely under-rated in its day and had an interesting history: it was shooting on location in Czechosolvakia when the Soviets invaded in 1968, causing the cast and crew to be subjected to house arrest. Stars Robert Vaughn and Ben Gazzara fled the country in a daring nocturnal escape that is recounted in Gazzara's recent autobiography. The film also starred George Segal and features some of the best action sequences ever devised for a war movie.
The Train was the 1965 film that would prove to be one of the last major black and white studio releases. Burt Lancaster teamed with director John Frankenheimer for this superb action thriller in which a member of the French Resistance attempts to prevent a German officer from looting France's art treasures in the closing days of the war. A soundtrack of composer Maurice Jarre's score had been issued for the film in 1965 but it has been hard to come by in recent years.
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