Is it possible that this is the loveliest theme that Williams ever composed? And even with a tinge of melancholy, it's such an effortlessly gorgeous theme that unfolds like pure magic.
Yes this is a very underrated Williams score. The theme is absolutely beautiful and even the mix of source music for the party sequence is wonderful. The movie is an underrated gem too. Cast was great, Ford was very funny and Ormond was great. I love old movies and Bogart is one of my all time favorites as is Hepburn, but I give this remake the edge. And it was the era I made sure to catch Ford on opening nights.
Yes this is a very underrated Williams score. The theme is absolutely beautiful and even the mix of source music for the party sequence is wonderful. The movie is an underrated gem too. Cast was great, Ford was very funny and Ormond was great. I love old movies and Bogart is one of my all time favorites as is Hepburn, but I give this remake the edge. And it was the era I made sure to catch Ford on opening nights.
It's indeed a rare situation when Ford's screen presence doesn't make a movie more watchable!
Interestingly, both the original version of "Sabrina" and the remake share one other thing in common:
One of the actors in the original version and the composer who scored the remake were both named John Williams!
And both Johns Williams are so great at what they do. The actor was in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, The Paradine Case and he all but steals Dial M for Murder. He's also in two of the 18 Hitchcock directed episodes of his anthology series, "Back for Christmas" & "Banquo's Chair." He's a great foil for Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution, one of the best movies ever made. This guy was solidly a pleasure to see appear in a picture.
Oh, and he and Johnny overlapped via an episode of Checkmate called "The Murder Game."
Interestingly, both the original version of "Sabrina" and the remake share one other thing in common:
One of the actors in the original version and the composer who scored the remake were both named John Williams!
And both Johns Williams are so great at what they do. The actor was in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, The Paradine Case and he all but steals Dial M for Murder. He's also in two of the 18 Hitchcock directed episodes of his anthology series, "Back for Christmas" & "Banquo's Chair." He's a great foil for Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution, one of the best movies ever made. This guy was solidly a pleasure to see appear in a picture.
Oh, and he and Johnny overlapped via an episode of Checkmate called "The Murder Game."
And of course, the musical John Williams scored Hitch's final feature film "Family Plot".
Theme from Sabrina has always been one of favorite JW pieces and I recently felt like playing it on my French Horn I ended up doing a mix of the original piece and the violin version, to which I also added little woodwind lines here and there. The backing track I used is the CD version of the theme, and to make things more interesting visually I synchronized the great video of JW performing it with the Boston Pops conducted by Seiji Ozawa ! Hope you'll enjoy it
That was terrific Marc! I always marvel at people with musical talent. Besides a great ear for music, I sadly have no other musical talent. I fear it got used up my my Grandfather and my Dad who were tremendous musicians themselves. They taught themselves how to play multiple instruments, and my Grandfather had an affinity for making musical arrangements of famous music from musicals such as West Side Story that he and his bands would play up in Jamestown, NY and around northwest Pennsylvania. Y'all are all amazing.
