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Certainly the best ever score for any Mummy films was Franz Reizenstein's totally magnificent soundtrack for the Hammer version. I think it might be my favourite film of all the great ones done for Hammer.
Sir Christopher Lee agrees with me, but ToneRow does not!
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For some reason every single MUMMY score appeals to me. I hope MMM can unearth some of the Universal/Salter scores. Portions were included on the HORROR RHAPSODY recording.
One of the MUMMY films ends with this upbeat, jaunty, rousing tune that is totally out of place with the Karnak carnage that has just preceeded it. I've noticed the same piece bringing down the curtain in SHERLOCK HOLMES movies and other Univeral titles of that era. I can't remember which one at the moment.
My favorite Nelson Riddle scores of the 1966 BATMAN show were for the King Tut episodes starring Victor Buono. I don't recall if there actual mummies in the show but the music was Egyptian-y.
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Jul 31, 2013 - 8:08 PM
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waxmanman35
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I have always had a question about the end title music in THE MUMMY (1932). What's the story behind that truly sloppy edit in the music as the last scene fades out, and the end credits come up. I realize that the Dietrich score was cut up and replaced in some parts of the movie, but still, that last edit is horrible, even by 1932 standards, cutting the cue off right at its height. Anyone know if the written score is around somewhere and can be checked to see what the original finale would have been?
I've seen Dietrich's sketches and the "Egyptian March" consists of only 10 bars. Dietrich composed the score intending that certain sections would be reused, so the "sloppy edit" is probably just that. William H. Rosar wrote the seminal article about the music for the Laemmle Universal horror films in the Fall '83 issue of "The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress." Rosar interviewed Dietrich, who told him that Karl Freund decided which sections should have music, and rejected one of Dietrich's cues. Dietrich composed an incomplete sketch for the flashback sequence (the last measure merely says "etc."), and in my opinion the Brusselmans and Roemheld substitutions were much better.
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