Harry Sukman: The Private Navy Of Sgt. O'Farrell: Original Score (CD) Pre-Order Deadline May 1/26 Release Date June 9/26

Dragon's Domain Records presents music from the original score to THE PRIVATE NAVY OF SGT. O'FARRELL, composed by Harry Sukman (FORTY GUNS, DR. KILDARE, THE HIGH CHAPARRAL, SALEM'S LOT) for the 1968 war comedy directed by Frank Tashlin (SON OF PALEFACE, THE GEISHA BOY), written by Robert M. Fresco, John L. Greene and Tashlin, starring Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jeffrey Hunter, Gina Lollobrigida, Mako, Dick Sargent, Michael Burns and Robert Donner. THE PRIVATE NAVY OF SGT. O'FARRELL takes place during the closing months of World War II and follows an Army sergeant named Dan O'Farrell (Hope) stationed at Camp Funapee in the South Pacific, who files a request to boost the morale of his men by replenishing their dwindling stocks of beer and aspirin. To O'Farrell's utter dismay, a Japanese submarine torpedoes a single supply ship in a naval convoy headed back to the United States... the ship carrying his beer! After O'Farrell stumbles upon a sunken stash of suds washed up on the coast of Camp Funapee, he partners up with a stranded Japanese-American soldier named Calvin Coolidge Ishimura (Mako) and hoards the copious cans of liquid bread for themselves and a ragtag gaggle of Army friends. O'Farrell and his cohorts discover and reclaim a small abandoned Japanese naval vessel which he pilots, against formidable resistance from his superior officers, to retrieve the remainder of the torpedoed beer lost in the ocean. Sukman's rousingly patriotic score for THE PRIVATE NAVY OF SGT. O'FARRELL is a complex balance of recognizable war anthems mixed with shades of sarcasm. His flag-waving main theme is ripe with twangs of tropical island bliss blended with an unabashed spread-eagle military march that would make even the most jingoistic Americans blush.

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