Albert Glasser - The Albert Glasser Collection, Vol. 7 - Film Noir Thrillers #1 '2024

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Dragon’s Domain Records presents THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION, VOLUME 7:
FILM NOIR THRILLERS #1. With this seventh collection of the composer’s
music, we are pleased to explore two more films from the composer’s vast
filmography, PLEASE MURDER ME and TREASURE OF MONTE CRISTO. Both of these scores
demonstrate Albert Glasser’s capability to craft a powerful soundtrack
with limited means.
Released in 1956, PLEASE MURDER ME is a first-rate noir thriller. Directed by
Peter Godfrey (HOTEL BERLIN, THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS, THE WOMAN IN WHITE) from a
screenplay from Donald Hyd and Al C. Ward, PLEASE MURDER ME stars Raymond Burr,
Dick Foran, and Angela Lansbury. Glasser provides a suitable orchestral score
that fits the film’s noirish oeuvre, bolstered by the frequent use of
theremin.

Released in 1949, TREASURE OF MONTE CRISTO, a fast-moving modern American
suspense/noir crime drama directed by William Berke (ISLAND WOMEN, FOUR BOYS AND
A GUN, F.B.I. GIRL, FURY OF THE CONGO, TRAIN TO TOMBSTONE, CAGED FURY). Starring
Glenn Langan (Edmund Dantes), Adele Jergens (Jean Turner), and Steve Brodie
(Earl Jackson), the film is a mix of historical fiction and modern crime drama
about a crooked San Francisco lawyer (Earl) who uses a beautiful blonde (Jean)
to lure a merchant seaman (Ed, a descendant of the Count of Monte Cristo) into a
trap to locate a fortune in jewels that disappeared thirty years before from a
castle in southern France. Filmed entirely in San Francisco, Albert Glasser
gives the movie a splendid orchestral score that accommodates both the
film’s storyline and the monochrome background of 1949’s San
Francisco.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Albert Glasser - Prologue / Main Title / Dictation (From "Please Murder
Me") (3:56) 
1.02 - Albert Glasser - I'm In Love With Her Joe / Give Me A Couple Of Days To
Kick it Around (From "Please Murder Me") (3:57) 
1.03 - Albert Glasser - Quit Livin' In A Dreamworld Lou / Chalk Him Off And Dust
The Place (From "Please Murder Me") (4:15) 
1.04 - Albert Glasser - That Is All / I Am That Man (From "Please Murder Me")
(0:58) 
1.05 - Albert Glasser - The Letter / She's In love With Some Kind Of An Artist
(From "Please Murder Me") (3:26) 
1.06 - Albert Glasser - I Was Expecting A Friend (From "Please Murder Me")
(2:11) 
1.07 - Albert Glasser - This Time You're Wrong / Dining With Craig (From "Please
Murder Me") (2:10) 
1.08 - Albert Glasser - The Surprise (From "Please Murder Me") (2:08) 
1.09 - Albert Glasser - This Grotesque Joke Of Yours Has Gone Far Enough (From
"Please Murder Me") (2:30) 
1.10 - Albert Glasser - Don't Make Me Do It! (From "Please Murder Me") (3:56) 
1.11 - Albert Glasser - In Exactly 55 Minutes, I Will Be Dead / End Credit (From
"Please Murder Me") (1:54) 
1.12 - Albert Glasser - Prologue / Main Title / Dictation (alternate) (From
"Please Murder Me") (3:55) 
1.13 - Albert Glasser - Prelude / Main Title / Mason Gets It (From "Treasure of
Monte Cristo") (3:38) 
1.14 - Albert Glasser - Dantes Rescues Adele / Dantes And Adele Leave (From
"Treasure of Monte Cristo") (2:11) 
1.15 - Albert Glasser - Reno Montage / Honeymoon Hotel (From "Treasure of Monte
Cristo") (1:50) 
1.16 - Albert Glasser - Dantes Climbs Building (From "Treasure of Monte Cristo")
(3:08) 
1.17 - Albert Glasser - Dantes Indicted / Adele Slapped / Jury Chosen (From
"Treasure of Monte Cristo") (1:50) 
1.18 - Albert Glasser - The Escape (From "Treasure of Monte Cristo") (1:57) 
1.19 - Albert Glasser - Juke Box (From "Treasure of Monte Cristo") (2:33) 
1.20 - Albert Glasser - The Hospital Scene (From "Treasure of Monte Cristo")
(3:19) 
1.21 - Albert Glasser - Two things, You're The Second (From "Treasure of Monte
Cristo") (1:00) 
1.22 - Albert Glasser - Dantes Searches Files (From "Treasure of Monte Cristo")
(3:39) 
1.23 - Albert Glasser - Hold it! / Jackson Gets Shot (From "Treasure of Monte
Cristo") (3:20) 
1.24 - Albert Glasser - End Title (From "Treasure of Monte Cristo") (2:22)

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