Burt Bacharach is indeed one of the best composers of all times. But with this movies sountrack he composed a masterpiece. It was referred in dozen other movies and still is like a piece of music which couldnt be done anymore by most composers.
shareThe music is the only thing to watch the movie for. Burt Bacharach matched the silliness that was going on onscreen so well. He is very intricate in his compositions. I actually prefer to listen to the music on it's own. Dusty Springfield's vocal to 'The Look of Love' is terrific. It's a pity that she didn't cover all of the Bacharach/David songs. They wrote the best girl singer songs of the 1960s I reckon.
The film itself is a confusing mess. I can only rate it 5/10.
The original LP is considered to be one of the best sounding LPs that was ever released.
shareThe title tune is probably the best thing Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass ever did -- much more muscular and exciting than "Tijuana Taxi"(forever doomed to be a Dating Game theme song.) The vocal version at the end is rather cheeky fun ("They're running for their lives...from guns and knives").
The Look of Love a timeless, sexy love song....here done by perhaps its best purveyor (though Sergio Mendes had a hit from it and Diana Krall did it well decades later.)
The exotic instrumental to which Joanna Petet does her Mata Hari dance is sexy and rather moving, in an exhilarating way.
Everything else just slinks and bounces and rockets around and keeps the whole movie in a certain "60s space."
I agree on all fronts. When it comes to Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass I have a big affection for Spanish Flea and The Lonely Bull, but their work on this soundtrack is superb.
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