Lawrence 70MM DTS Music Cue on Train?

Date: 4 Jul 2003 02:45:36 -0700
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About a year ago Benny Newman posted about the fact that the Lawrence
DVD had the music wrong in the sequence where Lawrence is walking on
top of the wrecked train. It starts with a backlit semi-silhouetted
scene of Lawrence walking on top of the train and then cuts to the
reverse angle and in the original and 1989 restoration there is a
symbol crash shortly after that cut,but in the DVD this is missing and
the music cue is incorrect.
Although I saw the 70MM DTS print very recently I wasn't looking out
for this scene and since the print has now gone to Melbourne(600 miles
from where I live) I was wondering if anybody who has seen the new
70MM DTS print is aware if this scene has the correct original music
cue?
The PAL DVD which I own has three languages on the soundtrack,English,
Spanish and German and of these only the German version has the
correct music in this scene(the cymbal crash just after the cut to the
reverse angle of Lawrence walking on top of the train) whilst the
English and Spanish versions have the incorrect music cue.
Robert morris suggested in his post last August that SONY did this
deliberately, seems extraordinary that they would tamper with the
music to one of the greatest film scores ever written.
I notice also that in those sections of the Spanish and German
soundtracks that had the dialogue restored(dubbed in 1988) the sound
reverts to English.Check out the German soundtrack on the first scenes
of Part 2(Alec Guinness and Arthur Kennedy) and it starts off in
German and then alternates between German and English. It would appear
that they used the 202 minutes foreign language mixes for the
non-English sound tracks and reverted to English
for those restored sections.
I would appreciate any information about the music cue in the "train
sequence" in the new 70MM DTS print as mentioned above? Does it
contain the original music cue?
Regards,
Peter Mason