Over at La-La Land, it's ghoulish fun on disc from Universal, plus some fan favorites for film and TV score lovers. La-La Land Scares Up Casper, Munsters, Quinn Martin and More
Chas Ferry has mastered from original tapes possessed by Bernstein's estate, while Tim Grieving has written liner notes. Director Barry Sonnenfeld devoted lavish attention to the film's set pieces and effects, while Bernstein channels the Western energy he delivered to classics like The Magnificent Seven for a fun musical romp, here greatly expanded and limited to 2000 units. Loveless (Kenneth Branagh) - played here not as a little person, but a legless man with a steam-powered wheelchair and a giant mechanical spider (a strange longtime desire of producer Jon Peters). Marshal Artemus Gordon, recruited by Ulysses S. Smith starred as Captain Jim West alongside Kevin Kline as U.S. Though the film somewhat infamously broke co-star Will Smith's ironclad grip on the July 4 weekend box office after star turns in Independence Day (1996) and Men In Black (1997), the weird cult charm of this adaptation of the CBS spy-cum-Western show is hard to ignore.
The latest title in Varese Sarabande's CD Club was an expansion of Elmer Bernstein's heroic score to the 1999 blockbuster Wild Wild West. September was an unusually bountiful month for archival soundtracks, and we're here to break it all down.