Todd McCarthy When the late, great writer-director Samuel Fuller finished shooting what turned out to be his final Hollywood studio film, in 1981, his producer Jon Davison asked who he had in mind to compose the score.
After a reflective pull on his cigar, Fuller barked, “Let’s get Morricone.”And so it was that one of the greatest film music composers of all time made one of his early jaunts to Hollywood to record a haunting soundtrack that, for more than 20 years, was not available on vinyl or anywhere else.
And neither was the film itself, the controversial White Dog, which was barely released and only came out on DVD, from Criterion, in 2008.
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