He led the Indianapolis Symphony for the 2008 premiere of THE LANGSTON HUGHES PROJECT featuring Ice-T and the Ron McCurdy Quartet. One of his first major scores was for the 1981 vampire thriller FEAR NO EVIL, composed in collaboration with the film’s writer/director Frank LaLoggia. He composed the music for the Emmy Award winning National Geographic documentary, SURVIVING EVEREST. After his Broadway debut as Music Director of MERLIN, THE MAGICAL MUSICAL, Spear wrote scores for three Academy Award nominated films: RAINBOW WAR, BALLET ROBOTIQUE, and THE COURAGE TO CARE. Spear and multiple reels of tapes were flown up to Vancouver along with all of the hand-written orchestrations and hand-copied parts for the final orchestra sessions.ĭavid Spear began his career orchestrating many film scores for Elmer Bernstein including AIRPLANE, ANIMAL HOUSE, HEAVY METAL and GHOSTBUSTERS.
Spear composed the bulk of his music for NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER 2 using piano/keyboards, bass, guitar, drums, and an EVI-an electronic valve instrument using the Boehm fingering system utilized by most woodwind instruments. The music for NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER 2 was composed by David Spear, a prolific composer, conductor and orchestrator. Scott, Mac, and Terry arrive in Cambodia threatening all out war in hopes of rescuing poor Sulin. The next day Scott and Jarvis are ambushed by Thai police however, Terry swoops in and rescues the pair in a helicopter. Scott learns that Sulin’s father was a famous Vietnamese general who, for the sake of his family, reneged on a lucrative deal with the Soviet militia. He escapes and heads to Patpong, where he locates and recruits Jarvis to help him invade Cambodia to rescue his fiancé. Scott is detained by local authorities and sent to the airport to board a plane for Singapore. After dinner with his fiancé Sulin, a gang of tough types crash into Scott’s room kidnapping Sulin.
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A former lover of Jarvis’ named Terry (Rothrock) tells Scott that Mac is likely in Patpong, a seedy area of Bangkok, Thailand. The story begins in Vietnam, where American college student Scott Wylde (Avedon) arrives looking for his former teacher and best friend Mac (Thayer). The film was also released in parts of the world as KARATE TIGER 2. Even though no elements of the story remained to connect it to the original film, the title was changed to NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER 2, or NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER 2: RAGING THUNDER. When the original film’s stars chose not to return, the story and characters were altered to form a completely new narrative. Released in 1987 following the unexpected success of NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER the year before, which happened to include the theatrical debut of Belgian screen actor, martial artist, and fight choreographer Jean-Claude Van Damme and also directed by Corey Yuen, NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER 2 was intended to be a direct sequel to the first film but actually began life as a different film called RAGING THUNDER. THE DAVID MICHAEL FRANK COLLECTION VOLUME 1įANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE (CDR) (2 DISCS)ĭragon’s Domain Records presents the original motion picture soundtrack to NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER 2, composed by David Spear for the 1987 action film directed by the legendary Corey Yuen (FONG SAI YUK 1 & 2, THE TRANSPORTER) and starring Loren Avedon, Max Thayer, Matthias Hues and Cynthia Rothrock. AIRPORT '79 (2CD)īABY: SECRET OF THE LOST LEGEND (REISSUE)ĬAPTAINS COURAGEOUS - THE FRANZ WAXMAN COLLECTION (4CD)ĬLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER (REMASTERED - 2CD)
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