BSX imprint Dragon’s Domain has released remastered soundtrack albums for the martial arts action films Forced Vengeance and Force: Five, two 1980’s cult classics that were scored by Motown and CBS Masterworks composer William Goldstein. Goldstein has scored more than 50 film and television projects, including Fame and The Miracle Worker. He has been a pioneer in the use of computers and electronic instruments in music.

Force: Five features quintessential music composed by Goldstein for the 1981 Robert Clouse-directed action film. The film stars Joe Lewis, Sonny Barnes, Richard Norton, Benny Urquidez, Ron Hayden, Pam Huntington, Michael Prince, Bob Schott, Amanda Wyss, Tom Villard and Bong Soo Han.

Lewis plays William Stark, a government agent who assembles a group of five martial arts experts to carry out a near-impossible assignment. They must infiltrate a religious cult led by the Reverend Rhee (Soo Han), one of the world’s most powerful religious leaders. Rhee lives on an island, surrounded by an army of trained mercenaries and fighters, his cult attracting the children of the world’s wealthiest people so that he can convince them to relinquish their inheritance and sign them over to Rhee.

Goldstein returns for the 1982 martial arts action film Forced Vengeance directed by James Fargo (The Enforcer, Every Which Way But Loose). The movie stars Chuck Norris, Mary Louise Weller, Camilla Griggs, Michael Cavanaugh, David Opatoshu, Frank Michae Liu, Bob Minor, Lloyd Kino and Leigh Hamilton.

Forced Vengeance, produced by MGM, was one of Norris’s earliest projects with a major Hollywood studio, boasting a relatively large budget of $5 million and shot extensively on-location in Hong Kong and Macau.

The film centers on Vietnam veteran Josh Randall (Norris), head of security for the Lucky Dragon Casino in Hong Kong. When the casino’s owner Sam (Opatoshu) and his family are brutally murdered by organized crime figures seeking control of the business, Randall embarks on a relentless quest for revenge. Randall becomes hunter and hunted, framed for the murders and pursued by both criminals and corrupt law enforcement.

As he navigates Hong Kong’s dense urban landscape, Randall protects Sam’s daughter, Joy (Griggs), while seeking the mysterious mastermind behind the crime.

William Goldstein’s work on Forced Vengeance demonstrates a sophisticated approach that contrasts with the film’s often gritty visual palette.