Mystery Score Clips

Well, time for the reveal.


This is from a 1984 TV movie called "Something About Amelia".

Things seem a little off in the Bennett household and their young daughter isn't quite right. The mother comes home to find the school conselor in her living room with her daughter. Apparently daddy has been having sex with her.

The daugher is taken from the home and the marriage becomes strained, with the father shocked by the whole thing, and her little sister wonder what's going on.

The mother doesn't believe it, the father is pretending to be surprised by all it, and the daugher ends up talking to someone saying he's done is multiple times over the recent years.

Okay, so how does this turn out? Well, turns out he was fucking her. I want to cut to the chase immediately so I can start ripping this movie a new one.

You see, you might expect from a movie with this subject, that the mother leaves the dad, the dad is arrested on sexual assault with a minor and a myriad of other charges, and we'd be trying to get proof about it and a confession from the dad. Right? Right?

NO.

The end of the film says it plays out the emotional situation with psychologists, for dramatic affect. That should tell you where this is going.

So, instead of this sick bastard going to jail and getting raped by prisoners when he drops the soap, he winds up scott free. You see, he never goes to jail. Nope!

He goes to see a shrink and never admits to raping his daughter until the end of the film when he apologizes to her.

"Oh, Justin, can this get worse?"

Yes!

His wife won't leave him! She acts like maybe he abused her a few times, like it was no big deal. And then she starts blaming herslef. And you know why? Get ready for: a conselor tells her sometimes guys like dear ol' rapin' dad, often don't do this for power or sexual pleasure, but intimacy and that was wanted to be close to his daughter from a lack of closeness in his life, which is strongly implied being lacked from her, the wife. He denies this when she asks him, but it's obvious. And she starts blaming herself for him raping his daugher. Multiple times.

"Good God, Justin! Surely it can't get worse than that!"

You're sadly mistaken.


Dear old rapin' dad joins his wife in therapy to work through their issues. Oh, and then their daughter comes in, so he can work through his and make amends with her.

Let's back this mind fuck train the fuck back up for a minute and let you know it actually got worse earlier. I know -- no small task.

The daughter is being consoled seperately and she doesn't seem to be all broken up about being raped by daddy. In fact, she didn't hate it, she just "didn't think he should be doing that". Oh, and then she goes on to tell the person that her daddy's not so bad, that if you didn't know that about him, you'd like him, he's actually a great guy. That sometimes sticks his penis in her vagina.

So, how does this FUCKED UP movie end? Well, I already told you he didn't go to jail, she didn't leave him, and he made amends with his daughter (and apparently the state; I guess he really, really, really promised not to fuck his daughter anymore). And they end the movie with the daughter and her little sister chating after gettng back to normal, with her remembering her daddy holding her when she was a baby (thankfully not raping her then either), and singing to her, remembering happy times with her child molesting father.

He's not such a bad father, he only stuck his weiner in her dozens of times somewhere from 11 to 14 years old, finished, and then was nice to her afterwards. What father wouldn't do that, right?
That. Fucked. Up.

The End.


You think I'm shitting you? Go find the film on Youtube and see for yourself!

What made this even worse was that they wrapped it in up a good script, good acting, and a terrific score. This seems to be a common trend with Hollywood. Take utter lies, garbage, perverted shit, and packaged it up in a well done presentation with award winning performances, and suddenly people excuse it.

The mother was Glenn Close.

The daughter was somebody named Roxana Zal.

And the father was played by Ted Danson.
The Trivia section on IMDb says Michael Landon ("Little House on the Prarie" fame) was picked to play the father, but nobody would believe it, after playing the good dad in LHotP for so long. Just as well, had he read the script.

The writer of this garbage, has no claims to fame on his IMDb page and it shows he passed away last year.


If you like watching movies about a father who screws his daughter, gets away with it, and they live happily ever after, this morally bereft crapsandwich is just for you. Otherwise, AVOID.



The composer for this unfortunate movie, was Mark Snow. Maybe they should have gotten Fernando Rivas to score it instead.

Mystery Score Clip 63

We're going back a few decades to an obscure film, both film and score unreleased. The composer is not credited. Only about a handful of scoring credits to his name.

I know what you're thinking: "Oh, great, Justin's made another suite of obscure score by somebody we won't know the name of."

I assure you: you KNOW the name. He just decided to make a very famous career for himself elsewhere aside from scoring. You'd have to have been living under a rock to not know his name -- you just didn't know he scored movies for a breif period.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erPkQdUWvgg

The music sounds uncomplicated so I'm wondering if the composer here isn't known as a musician but, rather is more associated with other areas of film-making?

Maybe something from the nineties?

Mancini, Hermann and Schifrin did more scoring than for just a "breif period".

Falk, I did say "He just decided to make a very famous career for himself elsewhere aside from scoring."

He's still alive. The scoring is from the 1970's. There were some more dramatic pieces you'd associate with '70's scoring, but there were way too much SFX over them to include.

No, no, no career in music.

You'd all better know him as an actor, director, producer, and writer. Though he's not produced/directed anything worth a crap in over a decade.

No, but that's a good guess. I didn't even think to check his scoring filmography for possible clips.

I would never have come up with that name - never heard of him.

This would be the 1986 TV mini-series Fresno, the plot revolving around a raisin production company, the Kensingtons. The score was composed by John Morris.

I liked some of the more menacing segments of the score but I found the main theme rather annoying.

I do have to admit that guessing Fresno had nothing to do with knowing the music. About 10 minutes into the clip there's some dialogue that bleeds through and I could hear the name "Kevin Kensington" being mentioned. Google did the rest.

I, for one.

Good God.
Do people that young really exist?

Surely history stopped just before the advent of disco?

The end.

Mystery Score Clip 65

We're going back. Perhaps, off the top of my head, than any clip before in this thread.

We have a colorful, bouncy, and whimsical score for your ears.

The composer is not longer with us, the score is unreleased. You are hearing about 70% of the score (the rest was mostly source scoring, though delightful in of themselves). In fact -- the bulk of this composer work, remains unreleased.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NBpQl-wVjo

Reveal.


It's 1957 and the film is a forgotten seriocomedy starring Katharine Hepburn, an Spencer Tracey.

Tracey plays Richard, an efficiency expert who shows up at the office doing mysterious things; he won't say why he's there, he's measuring various parts of the room, etc.

Hepburn plays the leader of three ladies who work in a help desk/rfeference center where people call in for answers about all kinds of things.

She plays a very intelligent and well spoken woman who clashes with Richard.


It's actually a very enjoyable film -- recommended if you enjoy witty, slow-paced films from that era. Check it out.


The score is by Cyril J. Mockridge. He worked on 251 film/TV projects (not counting individule TV episodes), with the vast bul unreleased, since 1933. Later in his career he was mainly scoring TV series, "Laramie", "Lost in Space", among others.