While the first four movies in Andre Hunebelle's OSS 117 Eurospy series were scored by Michel Magne,
the fifth film, whose many titles include
OSS 117: Murder For Sale,
OSS 117: Double Agent and
No Roses for OSS 117, saw changes both in front of and behind the camera, including the composer. John Gavin (who later signed on as James Bond for
Diamonds Are Forever before Sean Connery was lured back) stepped into the lead role, taking over from Frederick Stafford, and joined a dream-team spy ensemble that included Curd Jürgens, Luciana Paluzzi, Margaret Lee and Rosalba Neri. While Hunebelle still produced, Renzo Cerrato
and Jean-Pierre Desagnat assisted with directing chores, and veteran Eurospy composer Piero Piccioni (
The 10th Victim,
Matchless,
From the Orient With Fury) took over the scoring. This meant (obviously) that no music from this film was included on the excellent Michel Magne
OSS 117 compilation CD
from Universal. But this month, as first reported on the
Spy Bob Royale website,
Beat Records will release Piero Piccioni's complete score for this film as
Niente Rose per OSS 117. It's available for pre-order from
Amazon and, more reasonably,
Screen Archives Entertainment. It will be great to have this elusive OSS 117 music at last! I hope Beat Records follows it up with further complete OSS 117 scores.
Read my review of
Niente rose per OSS 117 here.
Read my overview of the OSS 117 Eurospy series
here.
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