Intrada has released a limited edition (1500) CD of composer Jerry Fielding's score for director Michael Winner's 1972 Gothic chiller The Nightcomers, a prequel to Henry James' classic ghost story The Turn of the Screw. Marlon Brando and Stephanie Beacham starred in the atmospheric film that raised eyebrows for its provocative sexual content. Here is the description of the CD from the Screen Archives Entertainment site:
World premiere of complete original soundtrack from intense Michael
Winner prequel to Henry James' "Turn of the Screw", starring Marlon
Brando. Jerry Fielding makes rare foray into horror genre, spotlights
dynamic contrast between pastoral exterior of tale, violent interior.
Elegant brass & woodwinds assist in former, strings are heart of
latter. Fielding balances accessible harmonies for gentle scenes with
dark, cerebral ones for perverse behaviors, violence, then finally
turns score inside out with cold, atonal finish playing in total
opposition to prim & proper beginning. Brilliant! Intrada CD
presents entire score in sequence from original stereo session masters
in superb condition. Authoritative notes from Nick Redman, dramatic
graphics from Joe Sikoryak complete package. Jerry Fielding conducts.
Special Collection release limited to 1500 copies! - Douglass Fake,
Intrada producer
1. 1M1 Main Title 2:45
2. 1M2 The Smoking Frog 2:08
3. 2M2 Bedtime at Blye House 3:03
4. 3M1 New Clothes for Quint 0:36
5. 3M2 The Children’s Hour 1:22
6. 3M3 Pas De Deux 1:26
7. 3M4A Like a Chicken on a Spit 0:57
8. 4M1 All That Pain 0:59
9. 5M1/6M1 Summer Rowing 2:04
10. 6M2 Quint Has a Kite 1:01
11. 6M3 Act Two Prelude: Myles in the Air 0:55
12. 6M4 Upside Down Turtle 1:36
13. 7M1 An Arrow for Mrs. Grose 0:32
14. 7M2 Flora and Miss Jessel 1:12
15. 7M4 Tea in the Tree 1:02
16. 7M5 The Flower Bath 2:22
17. 8M1 Pig Sty 1:38
18. 9M1 Moving Day 0:55
19. 9M2 The Big Swim 3:32
20. 9M4/10M1 Through the Looking Glass 2:42
21. 10M2 Burning Dolls 2:07
22. 10M3/10M4 Exit Peter Quint, Enter the New Governess; Recapitulation and Postlude 2:01
Total Score Time = 37:53
BONUS TRACK
23. 6M5 Pub Piano 2:13
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(For an extensive interview with director Michael Winner about the making of The Nightcomers, see Cinema Retro issue #2 in our back issues section.)