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I recently watched the episode "Dust," and I was fairly blown away to discover that the actor who played the condemned Mexican was John A. Alonzo, who went from being an actor to an A-list cinematographer. His most acclaimed work as a DP was Chinatown (his only nomination, alas), but his many other credits included Vanishing Point, Harold and Maude, Pete 'n' Tillie, Sounder, Lady Sings the Blues, Farewell My Lovely, The Bad News Bears, Black Sunday, Norma Rae, Blue Thunder, Scarface, Steel Magnolias, and Star Trek: Generations.
I also recently watched a first season episode of Combat! ("The Prisoner"), directed by Robert Altman, and the guest cast included Alonzo, Keenan Wynn, and an uncredited Walter Koenig and Tom Skerritt. Early television is full of amazing surprises (and of course, The Twilight Zone is full of fantastic scoring, in every sense).
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Thank you for that link. (I've always felt A Patch of Blue was Jerry's version of To Kill a Mockingbird, but not in a bad way)
Twilight Zone is definitely up there with Batman: The Animated Series as among the best-scored TV series ever. And I absolutely love the music for Star Trek: The Original Series, but I can't be a hundred percent positive that isn't partly because I grew up with it. (and certainly Williams' main title themes for Irwin Allen series are absolutely spectacular).
I've been watching Columbo yet again on DVD and absolutely loving the show -- it may be a close all-time second-favorite, after Party Down -- and really enjoying the scores (I'd never really truly appreciated Dick De Benedictis until now), though the Bernardo Segall scores from the later seasons are a bit bland and disappointing compared to the Goldenberg/Melle/DeBenedictic music from the first seasons. Maybe it's because the Segall music lacks that droll, List of Adrian Messenger quality that I've always loved. (Musically they're fine, especially the Mexico-set episode "A Matter of Honor" with Ricardo Montalban and Pedro Almendariz Jr.)
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I have the 4-disc TZ CD set, and this score is on disc 4.
I always considered disc 4 to be me least favorite disc in the set.
Having read what you wrote, I will revisit and share my thoughts.
Which 4-disc set do you refer to?
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Jun 2, 2020 - 12:37 PM
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There is a moment in “Walking Distance” where the combined forces of acting, directing and scoring brilliance all come together. This is when Martin Sloan, at the soda fountain, muses about the memories you connect with a place. His expression in extreme close-up is unforgettable. Gig Young would conquer Oscar territory a decade later.
"I may be crazy or the world may be turned upside down, but I know I have been put here for a reason."
This is the moment in AHYOTR where, for me, Cliff Robertson’s consummate professionalism together with Fred Steiner’s scoring just plain nail it. It is when Horn abruptly re-enters the dining area and hands the book over to Mary Lou and she reads the passage. Horn, suffering from what the doctor surmises as malnutrition besides delusion, can’t even crack a smile over the first cause for hope in who knows how long. Instead he takes on a fevered expression of grim determination.
Mr. Robertson would conquer Oscar territory, too, in just a few years. As for Steiner: Robertson was not going to waver in playing a man living a life of quiet desperation and Steiner’s music rises in tension along with the camera capturing the character's demeanor and clipped speech in close-up. Then Horn rifle butts Joe and bolts the place and that’s when all scoring hell breaks loose. Marvelously!
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Jun 3, 2020 - 2:45 PM
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Last Child
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Does anyone know if the harmonica cues crossfaded with the modern cues in the original recordings (and in the episode) or was that an aesthetic decision made for the CD? Assuming the latter, it was a bad choice. I don't mind crossfades where they make sense, but in this case, it is jarring.
Any jarring edits are as heard in the episode and make perfect sense in context. On the cd suite, the only non-episode fade (more like a very close edit) is at 10:05 when an action cue leads into a harmonica, but isn't jarring. The suite is missing some music, and the end harmonica cue actually belongs with the first one.
when I listened to the iso score it was clear that the harmonica cue was relooped/repeated at the end and I found it annoying a la ad nauseam. That was not how it was heard in the picture.
At 20 minutes in, Chris returns to the rim, followed by two separate scenes using harmonica. The dvd isolated music track matches the episode audio there. Perhaps you're thinking there's only one harmonica scene at the end. If you're really hearing extra music, then your source made a mistake editing the isolated music.
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