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Alternate Titles, Versions and Soundtracks?

posted 18 years ago by monty-57
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I think that the title this film has been most commonly known as throughout its history is "Corrupt." There was also "Order of Death" and all of the cheapo video box titles. Can anyone reading this trace the title history of this film?

I've seen myriad running times quoted for this film from various sources, including video boxes - 97, 106, 113 minutes. What is the most complete or definitive version (as intended by Roberto Faenza) and where can I get it on DVD? Which is the best-quality DVD transfer? Is this film really/still in the public domain?

And what about the fabled alternate soundtrack done by John Lydon? Is it true that P.I.L.'s "Order of Death" was supposed to be a track for this film?

[–] Barclayandrew 18 years ago

I found a copy of this film on DVD under the title of 'Corrupt Lieutenant'.
The company that released it are called "21st Century", and copies can usually be easily found here in the UK.
Im not too sure of the legal situation regarding the copywrite of this movie, but "21st Century" do seem to release a lot of poorly transfered hard to find movies on DVD.
The soundtrack was aweful on "Corrupt Lieutentant", im not sure who composed it, but it sound's like very cheaply made 80s synth noise.

[–] TheRowdyMan 17 years ago

[qoute]"And what about the fabled alternate soundtrack done by John Lydon? Is it true that P.I.L.'s "Order of Death" was supposed to be a track for this film?"[/quote]

PiL did write a score for Order of Death but for some reason it was passed on and Ennio Morricone did it instead.

Some of the PiL songs ended up on their album Metal Box.

There's an artical on it here:

http://www.fodderstompf.com/ARCHIVES/REVIEWS/coplp.html

"Goddamn motherf..ker got blood all over my best clown suit."

[–] rdoyle29 17 years ago

Can't have been "Metal Box". This movie wasn't even conceived of in 1980, plus Martin Atkins worked on the soundtrack and he wasn't in PIL during that era.

[–] SteveResin 17 years ago

Lydon & PiL did in fact record a soundtrack album, it's only available on bootleg and is called "Commercial Zone".

[–] cap65 17 years ago

Completely (or at least mostly) incorrect.

"Commercial Zone" is the version of PiL's "This Is What You Want, This Is What You Get" LP that was released by guitatist Keith Levene, who left the band during the recordings for it, and has his mixes of the material, along with one or two additional tracks.

While there may in fact be music on both albums that were planned for use in the film (most prominently, one assumes, the track "The Order Of Death"), "Commercial Zone" is in no way a "soundtrack album" for the film.

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[–] litil_red_devil-1 16 years ago

Public Image Ltd's song "The Order of Death" is on the soundtrack of Sci-Fi movie "Hardware", directed by Richard Stanley in 1990.

Lemmy (from Motorhead) & Ministry also appear on the soundtrack album, but it's mostly music by Simon Boswell.

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[–] TheRowdyMan 7 years ago

Just a correction (over 10 years later :) ):

Lydon was working with PiL during the film's shooting (over the phone). The material was to be realeased on an album titled "You Are Now Entering The Commercial Zone". This never happened when guitarist Keith Levene. Levene took the material meant for YANETCZ, remixed it and released it as different album called "Commercial Zone". Meanwhile, John Lydon used the same songs and re-recorded them as the next PiL album "This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get".