Soundtrack -- How to Find It?

For anyone interested in any soundtrack, it may well be worth your while to write the folks at www.filmscoremonthly. Through its sister web site screenarchives.com, fsm issues or anyway cooperates in issuing all sorts of movie soundtracks (several of them are via Brigham Young U, which has a film preservation unit, others are in cooperation with TCM), from every period from the 40's on up. There seem to be thousands available, most of which you'll never see in a Best Buy or Target store.

You may have to be patient if your request sparks their interest. And if a soundtrack is ever issued for "Vera Cruz," jump on it quickly, because many of FSM's most interesting releases are only issued in a one-time run of 1000. But just by checking their website, they already have something like 15 cd's of soundtracks by Hugo Friedhofer. So the interest among movie music fans already exists for the type of thing you're seeking. Good luck, too.

I agree with all those posters who think that Vera Cruz has a remarkably good score, and I'll take the liberty of making a serious suggestion here for anyone who'd like to see a CD of the score released: Go to Amazon (or some other CD-selling website or websites) and buy yourself a copy of every available recording of Hugo Friedhofer's film music. That'll accomplish two things. First, it'll give you several hours of at least somewhat similar music by the same composer to enjoy while you're waiting for the Vera Cruz soundtrack album to come out (a wait that, realistically, might last years). Second, it'll help send the message to whichever companies might be in a position to produce a Vera Cruz soundtrack album that there are Hugo Friedhofer appreciators out there who are willing to plunk down their consumer dollars for recordings of his film music, and who'd presumably buy releases of additional works by him as well.