The Getaway

Music by Jerry Fielding

 

 

 

 

The CD edition with the music for The Getaway brings for the first time the rejected score of Jerry Fielding, replaced by Quincy Jones in the movie.

Sinister and filled by martial percussion The Getaway closely resembles the Wild Bunch´s score, and even includes the anthem Shall We Gatter at the River that had much presence in Wild Bunch, the most famous partnership between the composer and Sam Peckinpah. The Getaway opens with the country lightness of Benyon's World, presents the romantic theme in Doc and Carol and deepens the thriller in peals of Chasing the Joint and The Bank Robbery. All that had been victorious and heroic in the marches and military rhythms used in film music becomes frightening in Fielding´s writing. Here the military rhytms sound menacing as was the sound mood of Wild Bunch. The suspense culminates in dissonances of Hotel Confrontation (strings and percussion) and ends at the carefree jazz-pop of End Credits, following the structure of the script literally. At the end of End Credits, an audio composer with the statement expressed his position on the political denunciations that so damaged his career. The issue of Film Score Monthly also features a DVD with testimonials of the wives of Fielding and Peckinpah.