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 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 1:33 AM   
 By:   Stephen Woolston   (Member)

When people talk about a 60s film composer scoring famous films and having hits, that's pretty much Barry or Mancini.

But I have to say I think all the famous films score by Barry in the 60s have been out by now, so I agree this sounds like a Mancini.

Which Mancini is a different question!

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 1:34 AM   
 By:   Michael24   (Member)

I'd like to see Robert Folk's Tremors released (Intrada did a promo of Ernest Troost's mostly rejected score but nothing for Folk's score) but it's probably not the early 1990's title.

It would be great if it was though.


I would love to see a definitive Tremors release containing both composer's work.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 2:23 AM   
 By:   Simon Underwood   (Member)

For it to be Zimmer I guess it depends on how you classify Black Rain - personally I would call that a thriller rather then an action film, even though it has plenty of those moments.

I hope that's how Intrada regards it too - because if they release Bird On A Wire next week I will go absolutely stone bloody nuts - one of my own most-wanted grails for so long now. *crosses many things*

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 2:31 AM   
 By:   .   (Member)

The word "hits" might refer to the composer's scores for hit films around that time, rather than being a reference to some kind of chart hits.
If so, Herrmann had some very big hit movies to his credit in just a four-year period, like Vertigo and North by Northwest and a couple of famous ones that haven't been officially released... like Psycho and Cape Fear.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 2:34 AM   
 By:   Rollin Hand   (Member)



'The Days Of Wine And Roses' or 'A Shot In The Dark'


Which one is the most famous? What does it mean? Does it imply the most popular?

 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 3:10 AM   
 By:   batman&robin   (Member)

My hopes are also for Hans Zimmer's "Bird On A Wire"!!

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 3:54 AM   
 By:   CinemaScope   (Member)

Good to see all these sixties releases still coming from Intrada. When I first read the clues I hoped it could be Schifrin's The President's Analyst, but I don't think that really fits. Mancini seems to be the best bet. A Shot In The Dark & The Days Of Wine & Roses are good guesses (but if the tapes are around for A Shot In The Dark, I'd have thought it would have been released by now). I'd add Man's Favorite Sport (Universal '64), a Howard Hawks comedy staring Rock Hudson & Paula Prentiss.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 4:05 AM   
 By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member)

Good to see all these sixties releases still coming from Intrada. When I first read the clues I hoped it could be Schifrin's The President's Analyst, but I don't think that really fits. .

The President's Analyst would be a great release but the film probably isn't famous enough to fit the clue.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 4:31 AM   
 By:   CinemaScope   (Member)

Good to see all these sixties releases still coming from Intrada. When I first read the clues I hoped it could be Schifrin's The President's Analyst, but I don't think that really fits. .

The President's Analyst would be a great release but the film probably isn't famous enough to fit the clue.


Yeah & neither is my outside guess, Man's Favorite Sport (that's more like a forgotten movie!), so if I had one guess, it's, The Days Of Wine & Roses (Warner).

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 9:26 AM   
 By:   hal_jackson   (Member)

I keep hoping it might be Herrmann's MARNIE, one of my top two or three holy grails. Although that wasn't really a "hit" movie at all (it flopped) it had an incredible score, and it was towards the latter part of Herrmann's Hollywood era (excepting TAXI DRIVER, which was recorded in L.A. in late 1975).

 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 9:30 AM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Good point. Marnie might fit unless the re-recording negates the clue...

Yavar

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 12:39 PM   
 By:   timme   (Member)

Looking at Zimmer's filmography on IMDB and Bird on a Wire could be a possibility.
Released in 1990 and the clue says "probably" his first action score. So let's consider Black Rain as a thriller, Bird on a Wire is next in line. Let's hope it will be Bird on a Wire next tuesday. This score has been a holy grail for me since the release of the film. It has great theme's and fantastic action music, specially the big finale at the zoo.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 1:35 PM   
 By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member)

Good point. Marnie might fit unless the re-recording negates the clue...

Yavar

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The 60s score has never received a release. A rerecording is a release of the score. Therefore, I don't think it's Marnie.

 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 2:05 PM   
 By:   Mister L   (Member)

No Goldsmith? What is this?

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 2:13 PM   
 By:   John Black   (Member)

I'm hoping for Herrmann's MARNIE, but it sounds like a Mancini title to me.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 2:52 PM   
 By:   jwb   (Member)

90s Title Maybe/Hoping:

The Meteor Man by Cliff Eidelman

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 2:53 PM   
 By:   paul rossen   (Member)

Mancini...Two For The Road

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 3:00 PM   
 By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member)

Mancini...Two For The Road

IF this were true, I'd be a very happy person. However, the score has been released, albeit a rerecording and incomplete.A great movie but is it famous?

 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 3:18 PM   
 By:   David Kessler   (Member)

For it to be Zimmer I guess it depends on how you classify Black Rain - personally I would call that a thriller rather then an action film, even though it has plenty of those moments.

I hope that's how Intrada regards it too - because if they release Bird On A Wire next week I will go absolutely stone bloody nuts - one of my own most-wanted grails for so long now. *crosses many things*


If you put Black Rain as a thriller, I would put Bird on a wire as a comedy (well action comedy atleast)
I think it will be Trevor Jones Freejack (as Runaway Train is a thriller , yes?)

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2013 - 4:52 PM   
 By:   Simon Underwood   (Member)

For it to be Zimmer I guess it depends on how you classify Black Rain - personally I would call that a thriller rather then an action film, even though it has plenty of those moments.

I hope that's how Intrada regards it too - because if they release Bird On A Wire next week I will go absolutely stone bloody nuts - one of my own most-wanted grails for so long now. *crosses many things*


If you put Black Rain as a thriller, I would put Bird on a wire as a comedy (well action comedy atleast)
I think it will be Trevor Jones Freejack (as Runaway Train is a thriller , yes?)


I was looking through a list of 90s action films earlier - only going up to 1992 bearing in mind the clue said early - and Freejack was the only other film that stood out as a possible. I'm sure Roger hinted it was happening on their board a while back too.

But then I would call Freejack sci-fi more than action, so the genre classifying game continues! wink

On Monday it's one of these two though, I would think.

 
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