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MICKEY BLUE EYES – Basil Poledouris and Wolfgang Hammerschmid
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton After almost a year’s respite from the pressures of the film scoring circuit, Basil Poledouris returns to the fray with Mickey Blue Eyes, the second of 1999’s two...
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FOR LOVE OF THE GAME – Basil Poledouris
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton It’s been a long time coming, but Basil Poledouris has finally returned to top form with For Love of the Game, Sam Raimi’s unexpectedly beautiful homage to the...
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CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LOS ANGELES – Basil Poledouris
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Paul Hogan must have had an especially large electric bill last year – otherwise why on Earth would he resurrect his now rather dated character Crocodile Dundee for...
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THE TOUCH – Basil Poledouris
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton It’s been a long time to wait for Basil Poledouris to get back into the scoring saddle. A couple of TV movies, a couple of flops, and the lamentable Crocodile Dundee...
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FLESH + BLOOD – Basil Poledouris
MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy Flesh + Blood was director’s Paul Verhoeven’s first American film as well as his first collaboration with Basil Poledouris. The tale is set in the...
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN – Basil Poledouris
MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy Conan The Barbarian is based on the Conan stories penned by author Robert E. Howard. The movie adaptation tells the story of a young Conan who...
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CONAN THE DESTROYER – Basil Poledouris
MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy The immense worldwide success achieved by “Conan the Barbarian” lead, to the surprise of no one, to an inevitably sequel. Producer Dino De...
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RED DAWN – Basil Poledouris
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Red Dawn was a popular and successful action film, written and directed by John Milius, set in an alternate 1980s in which a Communist army, led by...
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Basil Poledouris, 1945-2006
Composer Basil Poledouris died on November 8, 2006, at his home in Los Angeles, California, after a battle with cancer. He was 61. Vassilis Konstantinos Poledouris was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in...
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AMERIKA – Basil Poledouris
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton In the spring of 1987 viewers of the network TV channel ABC were treated to a 6-part mini-series imagining a horrific alternate reality for the...
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ROBOCOP – Basil Poledouris
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The 1980s was an especially good decade for films which blended extensive, sometimes quite brutal action with pointed social and political...
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CHERRY 2000 – Basil Poledouris
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Like most composers, Basil Poledouris scored his fair share of terrible films in his career. 1977’s Tintorera, one of the first films he ever...
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN – Basil Poledouris
100 GREATEST SCORES OF ALL TIME Original Review by Craig Lysy Conan The Barbarian is based on the Conan stories penned by author Robert E. Howard. The movie adaptation tells the story of a young Conan...
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FAREWELL TO THE KING – Basil Poledouris
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Farewell to the King is an action-adventure-drama written and directed by John Milius, adapted from the 1969 novel L’Adieu au Roi by Pierre...
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LONESOME DOVE – Basil Poledouris
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Lonesome Dove, an epic western mini-series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry, was one of the television successes of the...
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THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER – Basil Poledouris
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The character Jack Ryan is ubiquitous in American popular culture. He was created by author Tom Clancy and starred in a series of ‘techno-thriller’...
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QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER – Basil Poledouris
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Quigley Down Under is a fun, knockabout action-western, written by John Hill, and directed by Simon Wincer. The film stars Tom Selleck as Matthew...
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WIND – Basil Poledouris
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton In the years immediately prior to his death in 2006, composer Basil Poledouris essentially retired from scoring and moved from the Los Angeles area...
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FREE WILLY – Basil Poledouris
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton When the movie Free Willy played in cinemas in the UK in the summer of 1993 the title elicited a great deal of snickering from the more...
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