There is a love theme in the film used for William Holden and Nancy Olsen. This is used for the end cast music. Its the kind of scoring that would be used, IF the two of them had gotten away and lived happily ever after. Particularly bitter and ironic considering the real ending.
Yes, the shape of that tune is a little pastiche-ish, it has the feel of an old music-hall number from the '20s, especially that little repeat flutter at the end of the theme statement.
It's not so much a love-theme as a theme for a clichéd Hollywood romance of the type that Holden and his colleague would write, though we know Holden's character is far too jaded to believe in it. When he finally does, it becomes his undoing.
That theme is actually a variation on the theme of Paramount's "Eyes and Ears of The World" newsreel theme music, written by somebody else whom I'm still trying to track down.
That theme is actually a variation on the theme of Paramount's "Eyes and Ears of The World" newsreel theme music, written by somebody else whom I'm still trying to track down.
That theme is actually a variation on the theme of Paramount's "Eyes and Ears of The World" newsreel theme music, written by somebody else whom I'm still trying to track down.
No totally on-topic, but I think burying Franz Waxman's habanera (arguably the best moment in the entire score) under the Swanson monolog was a pretty bad editing decision.
