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Feb 20, 2012 - 8:21 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Damn, I love 1974. 
I just ordered this childhood chestnut of this movie, the kind that aired on TBS once upon a long ago during a school "sick day." I just ordered the thing on super-cheapy DVD, but it's got everything that I love about early 1970s TV movies: first of all it's a Dan Curtis production of a Richard Matheson script in The Year of the Kolchak, 1974! It's in that roasted brown desert which showcases the rugged California locales so common in shows of that period.
Scream of the Wolf also "boasts" Peter Graves in an immediate post-Mission: Impossible role, Clint Walker playing a Hemingwayan-type heavy--and very well; Jo Ann Pflug, whom I had a crush on as a kid, and who's the most perceptive character in the film...
There's also the usual early-to-mid-'70s elements that put a big grin on my unprepossessing mug: fern bars with noodly electric piano, or, barring that, tinkly cocktail piano that's more subversive than on the surface (see the "Source Music as Composer Parody" thread for more).
Finally, there's the Robert Cobert score. Not many around this place like his work, but I associate Cobert with the two standout scores he provided for the Night Stalker telefilms. He delivers another funky approach here, but also lays out the sonic dissonances I love about early '70s scores.
Here's the entire movie on the 'tube. Colbert's theme kicks in around the 2:30 mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZv1thaTkO0
Thoughts on this score and the film? Discuss (ha!)...
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Feb 20, 2012 - 9:42 AM
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dan the man
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I enjoyed Cobert's music from the Dark Shadows TV show and his 2 scores from the feature lenght, Dark Shadows films, Burnt offerings was good, so was Winds of war, etc, but so many of those TV movies made in the early 70's to mid 70's were so factory made run of the mill looking, lacking that unique distinction that any low budget theatrical film of that time can have, it was just so obvious within a few minutes you were watching a TV movie by the music score, direction photography etc etc,so paper mache, so limited.
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Cobert did a very cool "scifi" take on the CBS TV movie INTRUDERS I wish would get released.
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I hope Cobert's complete scores to the two Kolchak films will one day be released....
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I hope Cobert's complete scores to the two Kolchak films will one day be released....
Ditto, Danny.
Brett
....As well as a release of the Mellé/Fielding (et al.) scores of the Kolchak tv series of course (which I assume, coming from a separate production company to the films, would mean a separate CD release...).
I'm not familiar with Scream of the Wolf, unfortunately.
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Wasn't familiar with this Curtis/Cobert collaboration. Thanks for posting this Mission Impossible Man. 
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