07 Viva La Revolución - Miklós Rózsa - Crisis Soundtrack (1950) full album
Crisis (1950) was Richard Brooks’s first film as director, an engaging dramatization of turmoil in an unnamed Latin American country. Cary Grant plays a traveling American surgeon kidnapped (along with his wife) and ordered to save the life of the country’s brutal dictator, Raoul Farrago (José Ferrer), who suffers from a brain tumor.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is making a daring departure from the conventional in the musical scoring of its production of Crisis. Instead of the background music, which has been composed by Dr. Miklós Rózsa, being played by a full orchestra, the entire score will be played by Vicente Gómez and his guitar. Gómez, one of the world’s foremost guitar players, also has a role in Crisis, which stars Cary Grant and José Ferrer.
Gómez portrays the revolutionary Guillermo Cariaga, a guitarist who has foresworn his art in defiance of the country’s dictator, but agrees to perform in a cantina scene for the doctor and his wife—hoping to convince the surgeon not to save the dictator’s life.
