
THE DUELLISTS / THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS: FILM MUSIC OF HOWARD BLAKE - Original Soundtracks
(CD includes Digital Download - 24 Bit Wavs, MP3, Digital PDF) The Airstrip One Company presents film music composed and conducted by Howard Blake (THE AVENGERS, THE SNOWMAN, FLASH GORDON) for two of his most sought-after film scores. The first film score represented is THE DUELLISTS, the 1977 period drama directed by Ridley Scott, based on the story 'The Duel' by Joseph Conrad, starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox and Cristina Raines. During the Napoleonic Era, Lieutenant d'Hubert (Carradine), an officer in the French army accidentally offends another officer, Lieutenant Feraud (Keitel) and sets off a life-long enmity that finds the two crossing swords time and again in an attempt to achieve “justice” and preserve their “honor.” The second film score represented is THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS, the 1979 WWI spy adventure directed by Tony Maylam, based on the then-popular espionage novel written by Erskine Childers, starring Michael York, Simon MacCorkindal