Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

One interesting thing about this movie, is the score is composed by Michael Linn, instead of Jerry Goldsmith. Michael Linn of American Ninja fame. If you know American Ninja pretty well, you know Linn's score is very distinctive. Bombastic even. I've always loved it. Thought it gave the American Ninja a very cool theme that was sadly never reprised in any of the sequels.

So, I'm watching Allan Quatermain some years ago, and it strikes me, hey, I know that music. There are lot of cues in this that are very similar to ones he composed for American Ninja. There are even parts in this that use cues from George S. Clinton's Avenging Force. Cannon recycled music from other films a lot in their action flicks.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Obi-Wan Kenobi

One interesting thing about this movie, is the score is composed by Michael Linn, instead of Jerry Goldsmith. Michael Linn of American Ninja fame. If you know American Ninja pretty well, you know Linn's score is very distinctive. Bombastic even. I've always loved it. Thought it gave the American Ninja a very cool theme that was sadly never reprised in any of the sequels.

So, I'm watching Allan Quatermain some years ago, and it strikes me, hey, I know that music. There are lot of cues in this that are very similar to ones he composed for American Ninja. There are even parts in this that use cues from George S. Clinton's Avenging Force. Cannon recycled music from other films a lot in their action flicks.

Much of the score is just very clumsy re-edits of Goldsmith's score for KSM. He was originally going to come back for the second film but when Cannon cut the budget for the entire film (reportedly by a mere 75%) they went with the cheaper option.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Yeah, you're right. Much of it is just re-used Jerry Goldsmith stuff. I guess Linn didn't have to do much. In the scenes that he did write music for, that American Ninja sorta style of his is very recognizable.

[Wireduck1]

For those who bought this one and are looking for the first movie on BD: It's coming out October 13th in Germany here: https://www.amazon.de/Quatermain-Suc...rd+Chamberlain

[DMRI2006]

They are also releasing Lost City of Gold also, which hopefully would be in stereo this time (unlike Olives release)

[Talyn]

Ooooo....that's mighty tempting!

[SwissHD]

Originally Posted by Wireduck1

For those who bought this one and are looking for the first movie on BD: It's coming out October 13th in Germany here:

Got that today!
It looks very nice. A good HD master!
Comparison with the European MGM DVD:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/187692/