Albert Glasser - The Albert Glasser Collection Vol. 4 '2022

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       Dragon’s Domain Records presents THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION,
VOLUME 4: SCIENCE FICTION: ATOMIC MUTATION I. With this fourth collection of the
composer’s music, we are pleased to explore two films that he scored for
director Bert I. Gordon in 1957. Most of Gordon’s celebrated work is in
the idiom of giant monster films. Albert Glasser consistently made musical magic
out of limited resources and onrushing deadlines as one of Hollywood’s
most prolific B-movie composers. THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION, VOLUME 4
features expanded releases of Glasser’s music for THE CYCLOPS and
BEGINNING OF THE END. 

The years 1957-58 were Albert Glasser’s busiest as a film composer,
having scored fifteen B-movies that saw release in 1957, and ten in 1958. The
films included Glasser’s celebrated science fiction/monster films MONSTER
FROM GREEN HELL, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN in ’57, and GIANT FROM THE
UNKNOWN, ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE, WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST, and THE SPIDER
from the following year, as well as a slew of Westerns, adventure sagas, crime,
and juvenile gang movies.

THE CYCLOPS tells the story of Susan Winter (Gloria Talbot), a young woman who
undertakes a mission into remote Mexico to find her fiancée, missing for
three years after a plane crash. She and her unlikely cohorts – scientist
Russ Bradford (James Craig), pilot Lee Brand (Tom Drake), and a uranium mining
expert with his own agenda, Martin Melville (Lon Chaney Jr.), fly into unknown
territory and soon discover a lost world of oversized animals and, of course,
Susan’s surviving fiancée, now grown to gigantic proportions due to
radiation in the area.

BEGINNING OF THE END was made after THE CYCLOPS but preceded it into theaters.
Intrepid journalist Audrey Ames (Peggie Castle) is determined to get the scoop
on enormous grasshoppers that were accidentally created at the Illinois State
experimental farm, and she races to save Chicago despite a military cover-up.
For its day, the film was a typical but below-average
giant-insects-versus-humanity drive-in film, but its internal story logic and
special effects have not weathered the years well.

Tracklist:
1 01. Albert Glasser - Main Title (From "The Cyclops") (01:13)
1 02. Albert Glasser - Guayjorm, Mexico / Magazine Stand (From "The Cyclops")
(02:51)
1 03. Albert Glasser - Mexican Cafe (From "The Cyclops") (01:31)
1 04. Albert Glasser - Airport / Take Off / The Plane In Trouble! (From "The
Cyclops") (04:17)
1 05. Albert Glasser - Big Lizard / Fluttering Wings / The Hawk And The Rat
(From "The Cyclops") (06:17)
1 06. Albert Glasser - The Night Camp / The Iguana Fight / They Rest / Dead
Iguana (From "The Cyclops") (04:37)
1 07. Albert Glasser - Something Is Watching / Susan Captured (From "The
Cyclops") (02:59)
1 08. Albert Glasser - The Cyclops Eye! / The Cyclops! (From "The Cyclops")
(03:57)
1 09. Albert Glasser - Chaney Swipes The Gun / Susan Talks To The Cyclops (From
"The Cyclops") (04:49)
1 10. Albert Glasser - Battle With The Snake / Susan Cries (From "The Cyclops")
(03:38)
1 11. Albert Glasser - Cyclops Sleeps / Bloody Eye! / Cyclops Dies / End Title
(From "The Cyclops") (03:34)
1 12. Albert Glasser - Wild Drums (From "The Cyclops") (00:45)
1 13. Albert Glasser - Theatrical Trailer (From "The Cyclops") (01:30)
1 14. Albert Glasser - Prelude (From "Beginning Of The End") (00:57)
1 15. Albert Glasser - Destroyed Car / Crime Scene / Destroyed Town (From
"Beginning Of The End") (02:20)
1 16. Albert Glasser - Taking Pictures (From "Beginning Of The End") (01:33)
1 17. Albert Glasser - Destroyed Warehouse / Goodbye Frank (From "Beginning Of
The End") (04:05)
1 18. Albert Glasser - Into The Woods / Giant Locust Attack (From "Beginning Of
The End") (03:56)
1 19. Albert Glasser - Chicago Is Next / Here Come The Locusts (From "Beginning
Of The End") (04:28)
1 20. Albert Glasser - Capturing A Live Specimen (From "Beginning Of The End")
(03:26)
1 21. Albert Glasser - Stop The Bomb (From "Beginning Of The End") (01:54)
1 22. Albert Glasser - The Signal (From "Beginning Of The End") (03:34)
1 23. Albert Glasser - The Final Attack (From "Beginning Of The End") (03:23)
1 24. Albert Glasser - Following The Signal / Finale (From "Beginning Of The
End") (04:36)
1 25. Albert Glasser - Making Out In The Car (Not Used In Film) (From "Beginning
Of The End") (00:53)
1 26. Albert Glasser - Theatrical Trailer (From "Beginning Of The End") (01:30) 

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