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Dragon's Domain Records presents FORCE: FIVE, featuring music composed by William Goldstein (FAME, SHOCKER, FORCED VENGEANCE) for the 1981 martial arts action film directed by Robert Clouse, written by Clouse, Emil Farkas and George Goldsmith, starring Joe Lewis, Sonny Barnes, Richard Norton, Benny Urquidez, Ron Hayden, Pam Huntington, Michael Prince, Bob Schott, Amanda Wyss, Tom Villard and Master Bong Soo Han as the Reverend Rhee.
In FORCE: FIVE, William Stark, a top government agent, assembles a force of five martial arts experts to carry out a near-impossible assignment. They must infiltrate a religious cult led by the Reverend Rhee (Soo Han), one of the world's most powerful religious leaders. Rhee lives on an island, surrounded by an army of trained mercenaries and fighters, his cult attracting the children of the world's wealthiest people so that he can convince them to relinquish their inheritance and sign them over to Rhee.
Clouse started out his career strong, directing Bruce Lee in ENTER THE DRAGON and made many martial arts driven films afterwards, including BLACK BELT JONES, GAME OF DEATH, BATTLE CREEK BRAWL, GYMKATA and CHINA O'BRIEN, among others. His films featured many well known actors who were also skilled martial artists, including Jim Kelly, Jackie Chan and Cynthia Rothrock. While many martial arts action films of the time would focus on one or two fight styles, FORCE: FIVE represented an opportunity to feature a rich diversity of fighting styles with the fight choreography.
FORCE: FIVE was scored by composer William Goldstein. He has been a recording artist for Motown and CBS Masterworks. Goldstein has scored over 50 Movie and Television projects, including FAME & THE MIRACLE WORKER. He has been a pioneer in the use of computers and electronic instruments in music. His most distinguishing characteristic as a composer / pianist is his gift of "Instant Composition", which he shares with audiences through master classes, recitals and albums.
Goldstein early on established himself as a composer who was comfortable all over the musical map. In addition to film scoring, recording and concert scores performed from Carnegie Hall to Symphony Hall Boston, he established himself as an innovator of New Technology.
In addition to his professional activities in music and film, Mr. Goldstein is a founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, a founding director of the California State Summer School for the Arts, and served for many years on both the music branch executive committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as its foreign language (now International film) committee. He has also been a visiting artist for the Academy, lecturing from the Far East to the Middle East on contemporary aesthetics as well as music in film.
His filmography includes music for films such as THE BINGO LONG TRAVELING ALL-STARS & MOTOR KINGS, AN EYE FOR AN EYE, FORCED VENGEANCE, FAME, UP THE CREEK, SAVING GRACE, HELLO AGAIN, INTIMATE POWER, SHOCKER, BLOOD RIVER, THE QUARREL, Danielle Steele's ZOYA and THE MIRACLE WORKER, as well as contributing music on television for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC,THE TWILIGHT ZONE, RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THE MAGICAL WORLD OF DISNEY and OCEANQUEST.
Dragon's Domain Records presents FORCE: FIVE, featuring music composed by William Goldstein for the first time on compact disc. The music has been mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland and the liner notes have been written by Mike Joffe.
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