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Date Posted: 13:01:25 11/16/07 Fri
Author: Rick
Subject: Favorite music scores in Universal horror and drama films

I think a wide range of responses will be generated with so many films made over that long stretch in time.




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[> Re: Favorite music scores in Universal horror and drama films -- Alan, 21:00:54 11/16/07 Fri [1]

As I have said previously, the music in the Universal films has been one of their greatest assets. I hear Hans Salter's strings in my head as I type this. My favorite scores:

"Bride of Frankenstein"
"Son of Frankenstein"
"The Wolfman"
"Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman"
"House of Frankenstein"
"Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein"

A splendid array of music from Franz Waxman, Frank Skinner and the aforementioned Hans Salter. Salter, BTW, who lived to be 98, told an interviewer for 'Cinefantastique' magazine in 1978 "They'd screen one of those pictures for us without the music and it would be NOTHING. The pictures we saved for them!"

I disagree with Salter; they were still good pictures, but there's no disputing his (and his contemporaries) contributions.


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[> [> Re: Favorite music scores in Universal horror and drama films -- Rick, 16:11:58 11/17/07 Sat [1]

The music for Destination Unknown, Bombay Mail and The Black Cat were among the early entries that had almost continuous music in the score. Roemheld, Waxman, Harling, Ward and Charles Previn were among the top music composers. I think Frank Skinner and Hans Salter were just as effective in their compositions. They deserved more credit. Skinner's score for "Tower of London" was excellent. Salter did a good job in all the films. They'd stay up late in the evening and get things done just before the studio deadlines approached.

Salter helped reconstruct his scores for "Ghost of Frankenstein and "House of Frankenstein" with John Morgan in the mid-90's. He went to Universal with Morgan and they didn't know who he was. He told them and they treated him very nicely. The scores were completed just a week before Salter passed away.



Rick


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