Place Your Bets For The Dead Pool!

Los Angeles, CA. (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) - Aleph Records will release the soundtrack for The Dead Pool on January 13. The Dead Pool was the fifth and final film of the "Dirty Harry" series. Composer Lalo Schifrin, who composed the soundtracks for Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, and Sudden Impact wrote the original music. Aleph Records has released the soundtracks for the first four films, including The Enforcer, which was composed by Jerry Fielding.

Dirty Harry introduced audiences to the character of Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), a no-nonsense cop who seems to have trouble keeping his partners alive. In The Dead Pool, Harry finds himself in the public eye, a local celebrity thanks to tabloid coverage. He is added to a schlock horror film crew's 'dead pool', a series of bets as to who will die first, conceived of by the director (played by Liam Neeson). A serial killer who is an obsessed fan of the director tries to fix the game - and Harry realizes he is next on the list. The film boasts a spoof of the famed car chase scene from Bullitt this time with Harry being chased by a remote controlled toy car, loaded with explosives. Having composed the music for Bullitt as well as 3 of the 4 previous films in the series - Schifrin was unavailable to score The Enforcer due to a scheduling snafu - Lalo Schifrin was the natural choice to enter The Dead Pool.

Composer Lalo Schifrin is a true Renaissance man. As a pianist, composer and conductor, he is equally at home conducting a symphony orchestra, performing at an international jazz festival, scoring a film or television show, or creating works for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and even The Sultan of Oman.

He has written more than 100 scores for films and television including the classic scores for Mission: Impossible, Mannix, The Fox, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, The Cincinnati Kid, and The Amityville Horror. Schifrin's recent film scores include Tango, all 3 films from the Rush Hour trilogy, Bringing Down The House, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, After the Sunset, and Abominable. To date, Lalo Schifrin has won four GrammyT Awards (with twenty-one nominations), one Cable ACE Award, and received six OscarT nominations.
The Dead Pool will be available in stores and via iTunes January 13, 2008.