6/6/2023 0 Comments The heart is a lonely hunter![]() Like many dramas during the turbulent ’60s-especially those set in the South-the film explores themes of alienation and racism as its outsider characters struggle to communicate with each other and find their place in society.ĭave Grusin had mostly television credits when he scored The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and the project was a feature-film breakthrough that produced one of his signature scores-Grusin is renowned for his works for contemporary adult dramas that blend orchestral, pop and keyboard elements and this was more or less the first. There he touches the lives of a group of disparate people, including a sensitive teenage girl (Locke) whose family has money problems a proud black physician (Percy Rodrigues) at odds with his daughter (Cicely Tyson) and a self-pitying, troublemaking drunk (Stacy Keach Jr.). ![]() The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter stars Arkin as John Singer, a deaf-mute who moves to a small town while trying to become the legal guardian of a fellow deaf-mute (played by Chuck McCann) who has been institutionalized. One of the finest dramatic scores of the 1960s-and an important early work of Dave Grusin-gets a deluxe CD treatment from Film Score Monthly: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), for the acclaimed adaptation of Carson McCullers’s popular Southern novel starring Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke. Film Score Monthly CD: Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, TheĢ50 Golden and Silver Age Classics on CD from 1996-2013! Exclusive distribution by SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT. ![]()
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