One of the rarest, if not the rarest, movie soundtrack albums is that of the 1954 film The Caine Mutiny. It was going to be released by RCA, but the author of the book on which the movie was based, Herman Wouk, objected to inclusion on the soundtrack of excerpts of spoken dialogue on the theory that it violated a copyright owned by Wouk. The head of Columbia studios, Harry Cohn, purportedly told Wouk that Cohn was convinced that he could beat Wouk legally, but Cohn then stated that he would still yank the project anyway because the recording was "lousy" on its artistic merits.
Less than a dozen copies of the album are known to exist. Should you find one at a garage sale, you should snatch it up immediately.
If you are confused why a photo of strawberries illustrates this factoid, then you obviously have not read the book or seen the movie. You should rectify this omission, as both of them are excellent. In fact, despite any contrary implication by Harry Cohn, the music in the film is pretty good, also.
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