Albert Glasser - The Albert Glasser Collection, Vol. 3 '2022

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       Dragon’s Domain Records presents THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION
Volume 3, featuring the premiere releases of Albert Glasser’s music for
FOUR BOYS AND A GUN and STREET OF SINNERS. The two films in this third
collection of 1950s classic Albert Glasser scores from Dragon’s Domain
Records are essentially juvenile delinquent crime films from 1957, and were
released by United Artists. Both films were directed by William Berke
(1903–1958), a veteran director of nearly 100 films since 1934, including
many Westerns and crime dramas, and a handful of television episodes during the
early 1950s.

OUR BOYS AND A GUN is based on a 1944 novel of the same name by Willard Wiener
(1900-1982) who later wrote episodes of TV’s FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE and the
like in the 1950s. Leo Townsend and Philip Yordan wrote the screenplay. While
the four “boys” – Ollie, Eddie, Johnny, and Stanley –
are clearly young grown-ups, the juvenile delinquent genre tag fits the
presentation of their characters. These four young friends, needing cash to pay
off a bookie after Ollie spent the money impressing a girl instead, decide at
Ollie’s direction to hold up a boxing arena in order to obtain the
necessary cash to pay off the loan. When a cop is killed during the robbery, the
four are quickly found and arrested, and the district attorney is brought in to
determine which of the four boys fired the fatal shot. He leaves it to the four
of them to identify the shooter, or else all four will go to the electric chair
– and three of them don’t know which of them that was. Albert
Glasser provides a powerful score using a jazz group of 20 players (4 trumpets,
4 trombones, 5 saxophones, piano, etc.) that perfectly fits the style of the
film and the attitude of the period.

STREET OF SINNERS is based on a story by Philip Yordan, with a screenplay
written by John McPartland (THE WILD PARTY, NO DOWN PAYMENT, THE LOST MISSILE).
It’s as hard-hitting a story as FOUR BOYS AND A GUN although it focuses
on a rookie cop taking over the beat on a particularly unruly downtown street.
Unlike his genial predecessor, the young new officer, strictly by-the-book, is
unwilling to look the other way and let the young hoodlums hanging out on the
street continue to get away with minor crimes. Veteran actor George Montgomery
(who starred in Glasser’s HUK! in 1956) plays officer John Dean; with
Geraldine Brooks as Terry, an alcoholic divorcee hoping to get a second chance
at romance with the tall, handsome beat cop; and Marilee Earle as Nancy, one of
the street’s tough girls who manages to reform herself through the
influence of Officer Dean, ultimately serving as the film’s leading
heroine. William Harrigan plays Gus, the retiring officer who tolerated much of
what happens on “Nameless” Street but finds a chance for redemption
later in the story. Nehemiah Persoff is Leon, the bar owner who runs crime on
the street and becomes Dean’s leading adversary, and Stephen Joyce plays
Ricky, the unhappy ex-soldier who fancies himself as Nancy’s guy until he
jumps at the opportunity to become Leon’s “muscle.” Another
veteran actor getting his first feature film role here is Clifford Davis, whose
star took off on television in the 1970s and in films during the 1980s and
beyond (BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, THE EXORCIST III, SIGNS,
KINSEY). He plays Tommy, Leon’s brother and one of the toughs hanging out
on Nameless Street. Glasser’s score, like that of FOUR BOYS AND A GUN, is
heavily styled in jazz, but with more of a dramatic punch and a touch of noir
intonations than was found in the previous movie. With few exceptions, the
film’s music is music of the street – the wild, the brash, the
lifestyle of the hustlers and the wannabees; Glasser’s occasional
interludes are reserved for a handful of specific dramatic or emotional moments.

1.01 - Albert Glasser - Four Boys and a Gun Main Title (From "Four Boys and a
Gun") (1:45)
1.02 - Albert Glasser - After the Robbery (From "Four Boys and a Gun") (1:29)
1.03 - Albert Glasser - At the Bar (From "Four Boys and a Gun") (2:31)
1.04 - Albert Glasser - Her Apartment (From "Four Boys and a Gun") (2:54)
1.05 - Albert Glasser - The Cops Arrive / Walk to the Chair (From "Four Boys and
a Gun") (2:15)
1.06 - Albert Glasser - Truck Run (From "Four Boys and a Gun") (1:25)
1.07 - Albert Glasser - Dandelion Club (From "Four Boys and a Gun") (2:36)
1.08 - Albert Glasser - Ollie's Sad Story (From "Four Boys and a Gun") (2:09)
1.09 - Albert Glasser - Rumble at the Pool Hall (From "Four Boys and a Gun")
(3:33)
1.10 - Albert Glasser - Bad Luck (From "Four Boys and a Gun") (2:21)
1.11 - Albert Glasser - Stanley's Story / Johnny and His Wife (From "Four Boys
and a Gun") (3:40)
1.12 - Albert Glasser - Al's Bar (From "Four Boys and a Gun") (2:11)
1.13 - Albert Glasser - The Boys Dejected (From "Four Boys and a Gun") (4:32)
1.14 - Albert Glasser - "Ten Years if we are Lucky" (From "Four Boys and a Gun")
(3:13)
1.15 - Albert Glasser - The Final Choice / Four Boys and A Gun End Credits (From
"Four Boys and a Gun") (1:36)
1.16 - Albert Glasser - Albert Glasser Wraps-Up Four Boys and a Gun (3:04)
1.17 - Albert Glasser - Street of Sinners Main Title / On the Beat / Suicide
(From "Street of Sinners") (4:54)
1.18 - Albert Glasser - Nancy and Ricky (From "Street of Sinners") (3:41)
1.19 - Albert Glasser - Walking the Beat (From "Street of Sinners") (2:44)
1.20 - Albert Glasser - Off Duty (From "Street of Sinners") (3:15)
1.21 - Albert Glasser - Street Action (From "Street of Sinners") (2:32)
1.22 - Albert Glasser - Car Trouble / Leon and Nancy (From "Street of Sinners")
(4:23)
1.23 - Albert Glasser - Night Life (From "Street of Sinners") (2:34)
1.24 - Albert Glasser - Leon and Ricky (From "Street of Sinners") (2:35)
1.25 - Albert Glasser - The Truth about Leon (From "Street of Sinners") (2:39)
1.26 - Albert Glasser - Ricky’s Place (From "Street of Sinners") (2:53)
1.27 - Albert Glasser - The End of Leon and Street of Sinners End Title (From
"Street of Sinners") (3:54)
1.28 - Albert Glasser - Albert Glasser Wraps-Up Street of Sinners (1:02) 

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