The Liquidator
The Killer
The Liquidator
Music Composed and Conducted by Lalo Schifrin
Featuring Shirley Bassey signing the Title Theme
Produced by Jesse Kaye
Engineer: Thorne Nogar
Director of Engineering: Val Valentin
Cover Art: Bob Peak
Cover Design: Acy R. Lehman
MGM Records E-4413 ST
1966
From the back cover: MGM's thrilling spy-spoof, THE LIQUIDATOR, was filmed in Panavision and color on location at Nice, Monte Carlo, Cape Martin, Eden Roc and Antibes. The screenplay by Peter Yeldham is based on the best-selling John Gardner novel published in England in 1964.
Rod Taylor portrays Boysie Oakes, an unassuming British ex-Army sergeant who, during V-E Day celebrations in Paris, inadvertently saves the life of Intelligence Major Mostyn (Trevor Howard). The grateful Mostyn marks down his well-built saviour as a coldblooded killer. Nothing could be further from the truth. Bloodshed upsets him and he loathes violence.
Several years later Mostyn drafts Boysie into the Secret Service for a job as hatchet man. Boysie's assignment: To liquidate security risks whose activities are known but against whom nothing legally can be proved. Boysie also meets Major Mostyn's personal assistant, Iris MacIntosh (Jill St. John), whom he pursues with some success.
Rather than be found out, Boysie tries cunning. He hires a professional assassin, Griffin (Eric Sykes) to do his killing for him, while he and Miss MacIntosh run down to the Riviera for a relaxed weekend. This pathetic attempt to outwit the all-knowing, all-seeing Secret Service, fails. When Boysie arrives in Nice, agents, some from foreign powers, some from Mostyn's office, plunge him into a maelstrom of espionage and intrigue.
Intrigue is followed by counter-intrigue and even counter-counter-intrigue, during the course of which Boysie is kidnapped by the fat, sweating Sheriek (Akim Tamiroff) and his hip-swinging decoy, Coral (Gabriella Licudi), tortured, imprisoned, pursued, and almost killed in a frantic auto chase along a mountainous corniche.
Forced by the pressure of circumstances to perform unaccustomed feats of valor, Boysie, to his own surprise, ultimately justifies the expectations of his benefactor, Major Mostyn. Mostyn, of course, always knew his protegé, THE LIQUIDATOR, was a very special, most extraordinary agent.
Lalo Schifrin is certainly the perfect composer to do the score for this fine film. He has a strong jazz background, and has been most active composing scores for TV and movies. Among his movie credits are: "Once A Thief," "Cincinnati Kid," and two forthcoming films, "Venetian Affair" and "Murderer's Row." In TV he has done music for "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," "Blue Light," "Wagon Train," and "Bob Hope Presents." He is also doing the score for two current TV hits from this sea- son, "T.H.E. Cat," and "Mission Impossible," and he will do the score for the coming Wolper documentary "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich."
SIDE 1
The main title credits roll to the sound of the excit- ing, throbbing voice of Shirley Bassey singing THE LIQUIDATOR. Miss Bassey, one of England's top popular vocalists, is also a favorite on the American side of the Atlantic. Peter Callander wrote the lyrics to Lalo Schifrin's fine music.
When Boysie (Rod Taylor), first enters his plush new bachelor pad, he switches on the phonograph and listens to a sax version of what is later to be- come his "make-out" music, Boysie's Bossa.
The Killer, an Afro-Cuban version of the main theme is heard under a series of scenes that show Boysie's accomplices hard at work, liquidating. Bikini-clad nymphs prance around a French Riviera Hotel swimming pool to the strains of Bikini Waltz.
The Bird blares out of a Cafe juke box. Featuring trumpet, trombone, and steel guitar, it is a driving, funky, rock-soul tune, laced with Latin-American inflections.
Casino Rhapsody. Gypsy music, sobbing violins. Lalo has fun with this.
SIDE 2
Carry On is Schifrin's jazz version of THE LIQUIDATOR theme. It is introduced by Tubby Hayes playing a lighthearted flute solo as Boysie grimly goes through the spy training bit.
While Boysie waits impatiently at home for the arrival of Iris, (Jill St. John), Schifrin's piano, backed by violins, evokes a mood as feminine and provocative as a see-through nightie.
Riviera Chase. Dispersing the romantic Iris mood, pulse-pounding reeds and brasses depict Boysie gunning his sports car over narrow, winding corniche roads in an attempt to escape his pursuers. Boysie is making love to a beautiful girl in his apartment, while the flute version of his favorite music, Boysie's Bossa, comes from his favorite mechanical invention: the phonograph.
Tilt has a wide-open, 40's big-band sound. Our hero plays this record to entertain Jill St. John. Shirley Bassey sings a tender version of THE LIQUIDATOR (My Liquidator) over the closing screen credits.
Rod Taylor portrays Boysie Oakes, an unassuming British ex-Army sergeant who, during V-E Day celebrations in Paris, inadvertently saves the life of Intelligence Major Mostyn (Trevor Howard). The grateful Mostyn marks down his well-built saviour as a coldblooded killer. Nothing could be further from the truth. Bloodshed upsets him and he loathes violence.
Several years later Mostyn drafts Boysie into the Secret Service for a job as hatchet man. Boysie's assignment: To liquidate security risks whose activities are known but against whom nothing legally can be proved. Boysie also meets Major Mostyn's personal assistant, Iris MacIntosh (Jill St. John), whom he pursues with some success.
Rather than be found out, Boysie tries cunning. He hires a professional assassin, Griffin (Eric Sykes) to do his killing for him, while he and Miss MacIntosh run down to the Riviera for a relaxed weekend. This pathetic attempt to outwit the all-knowing, all-seeing Secret Service, fails. When Boysie arrives in Nice, agents, some from foreign powers, some from Mostyn's office, plunge him into a maelstrom of espionage and intrigue.
Intrigue is followed by counter-intrigue and even counter-counter-intrigue, during the course of which Boysie is kidnapped by the fat, sweating Sheriek (Akim Tamiroff) and his hip-swinging decoy, Coral (Gabriella Licudi), tortured, imprisoned, pursued, and almost killed in a frantic auto chase along a mountainous corniche.
Forced by the pressure of circumstances to perform unaccustomed feats of valor, Boysie, to his own surprise, ultimately justifies the expectations of his benefactor, Major Mostyn. Mostyn, of course, always knew his protegé, THE LIQUIDATOR, was a very special, most extraordinary agent.
Lalo Schifrin is certainly the perfect composer to do the score for this fine film. He has a strong jazz background, and has been most active composing scores for TV and movies. Among his movie credits are: "Once A Thief," "Cincinnati Kid," and two forthcoming films, "Venetian Affair" and "Murderer's Row." In TV he has done music for "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," "Blue Light," "Wagon Train," and "Bob Hope Presents." He is also doing the score for two current TV hits from this sea- son, "T.H.E. Cat," and "Mission Impossible," and he will do the score for the coming Wolper documentary "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich."
SIDE 1
The main title credits roll to the sound of the excit- ing, throbbing voice of Shirley Bassey singing THE LIQUIDATOR. Miss Bassey, one of England's top popular vocalists, is also a favorite on the American side of the Atlantic. Peter Callander wrote the lyrics to Lalo Schifrin's fine music.
When Boysie (Rod Taylor), first enters his plush new bachelor pad, he switches on the phonograph and listens to a sax version of what is later to be- come his "make-out" music, Boysie's Bossa.
The Killer, an Afro-Cuban version of the main theme is heard under a series of scenes that show Boysie's accomplices hard at work, liquidating. Bikini-clad nymphs prance around a French Riviera Hotel swimming pool to the strains of Bikini Waltz.
The Bird blares out of a Cafe juke box. Featuring trumpet, trombone, and steel guitar, it is a driving, funky, rock-soul tune, laced with Latin-American inflections.
Casino Rhapsody. Gypsy music, sobbing violins. Lalo has fun with this.
SIDE 2
Carry On is Schifrin's jazz version of THE LIQUIDATOR theme. It is introduced by Tubby Hayes playing a lighthearted flute solo as Boysie grimly goes through the spy training bit.
While Boysie waits impatiently at home for the arrival of Iris, (Jill St. John), Schifrin's piano, backed by violins, evokes a mood as feminine and provocative as a see-through nightie.
Riviera Chase. Dispersing the romantic Iris mood, pulse-pounding reeds and brasses depict Boysie gunning his sports car over narrow, winding corniche roads in an attempt to escape his pursuers. Boysie is making love to a beautiful girl in his apartment, while the flute version of his favorite music, Boysie's Bossa, comes from his favorite mechanical invention: the phonograph.
Tilt has a wide-open, 40's big-band sound. Our hero plays this record to entertain Jill St. John. Shirley Bassey sings a tender version of THE LIQUIDATOR (My Liquidator) over the closing screen credits.
The Liquidator
Boysie's Bossa
The Killer
Bikini Waltz
The Bird
Casino Rhapsody
Carry On
Iris
Riviera Chase
Boysie's Bossa
Tilt
The Liquidator
