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Thanks, guys. Both posts -- the disc, the trailer -- are great news. I have a special personal affection for NOOSE, because somebody released the first reel as a short film which showed up in 16mm at an assembly when I was in junior high school. To see Bud and Lou at their best on a big screen with a delighted audience of laughing kids -- as opposed to on a TV set at home alone -- was a rare treat.
Incidentally, NOOSE also happens to be one of a surprising number of Abbott and Costello flicks scored by Walter (THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER) Schumann. (Of which my musical favorite is probably BUCK PRIVATES COME HOME).
NON SEQUITOR: I live in a landmark building so venerable that it has a mail-chute like the one that's such a plot point in the movie. I think of THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH every time I drop a letter or a bill payment down the 4th floor slot. Or, at least, I did until just a few months ago when an envelope I sent downward got stuck between the second and first floors.)
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Well, that "Schumann" motif was actually written by Miklos Rozsa for THE KILLERS. There was a subsequent lawsuit and Rozsa now has co-composer credit for the DRAGNET theme.
The march section of the theme first appeared in Schumann's 1947 score to THE WISTFUL WIDOW OF WAGON GAP.
Official Films released three one-reelers from THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH: "Oh, My Aching Tooth"; "Pinch Me Please" and "Mudder and Fodder".
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Thanks, Ray, for the necessary DRAGNET footnote. If I'd seen the post before you did, I'd have chimed in with the correction myself. (I'd have thought by now everybody who frequents the Board had been apprised of the Rozsa/Schumann backstory, but I guess it still bears repeating from time to time.)
Have you seen all three of those featurettes? I'm guessing one of them must have been the one I wrote about in my earlier post about Junior High School days, but I couldn't tell based on just the titles. I do remember it included the scene where the crooks rough up Lou and hoist him high by the armpits: "Put that floor back where it belongs!"
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Thanks for the nostalgic treat, Ray! Never thought I'd see that short again. And how fitting that this video was shot old school, since that's where I first saw it, in my old school.)
And thanks for the Out-Takes. I take it (or should I say, out-take it) that we won't be seeing it on the BuRay?
Incidentally, as a non sequitur sidebar, but speaking of A & C in my school days: After a lifetime of seeing HOLD THAT GHOST, suddenly I've noticed a blooper that either nobody spotted or else nobody thought was worth fixing. Out on the sidewalk when Bud and Lou's characters are introduced to their fellow passengers before getting into the con man's car, they're introduced with the character last names (Mr. Murray, Mr.Jones) reversed.
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Huh? Wha-?
I think it's gotten to the point, Howard, where I need a portrait photo of you which I can then caption, "BEHOLD THAT CUCKOO."
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