The Grifters Soundtrack CD
The Grifters.
1990, Miramax.
Elmer Bernstein.
Verese Sarabande, CD, 1990, VSD-5290.
Rating: 
An offbeat, contemporary film noir, ‘The Grifters’ stars John Cusack as a petty conman, drawn into the complex and dangerous life of his estranged mother (Anjelica Huston) who works for the mob. Elmer Bernstein created an offbeat score, with woodwind and piano and punctuated it with electronic high notes, particularly effective in the film’s main theme ‘The City’ and the darker ‘To The Hospital’. ‘School For Grifters’, melancholic and lonely, flickers with underlying threat, while ‘Roy Gambles’ is a jaunty reminder of the films darkly comic origins. Arguably one of Bernstein’s finest later scores, if you discount the terrible pop track tacked on the end.
The Grifters Movie Soundtrack. Review: Tim Mowbray.
Track Listing:
1. The City.
2. The Racetrack.
3. Roy In Trouble.
4. School For Grifters.
5. To The Hospital.
6. Troubadour Race.
7. Lilly’s Argument.
8. Bobo.
9. Carhumba.
10. Roy Gambles.
11. Madness.
12. Myra’s Blues.
13. Roy And Lilly.
14. Chase.
15. Fright And Flight.
16. Endings.
17. Credits.
18. Do Ya, Do Ya Love Me? (Dream World).
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