Mystery Score Clips

I'm plumb out of titles for the time being - perhaps another member can continue guessing where I've left off?

Reveal time.


The composer is Dave Grusin.

The film, originally titled "Willie Boy", had a troubled composer passed, with not one but two rejected scores. First going throw Jimmy Webb, which would have made it Webb's first [known] film score (interstingly enough, his second score was also rejected the next year, for Love Story"), then going through Patrick Williams, whom I believe is an friend of Grusin's.
The film was re-titled "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" and settled with it's third composer.

The film is a fairly solid work, with good writing and casting.

Grusin's score isn't overly long (unless some of it was dropped from the film) and as a result I would say there's probably about 30 to 40 minutes in it. Assuming both rejected scores are about that length, this would make a great 2CD set.



The TV show I mentioned, was "The Virginian", for which he scored two episodes.

I have no idea what this is or who wrote it, but listening to portions of this underscore once is enough for me.
It possesses that post-1983 "juvenile" aspect which has been so beloved by mainstream Hollywood products for almost 30 years by this point (think of Joe Dante movies).

However, the Latin/Mexican "ethnic" music which sets a scene at the beginning of the clip would most likely have been deemed too politically incorrect after about 1992 or so [just think how lauded UNDER FIRE was in comparison to the dismissive indifference which greeted MEDICINE MAN]

For a fleeting moment, I heard what sounds like Simmons Drums, which makes me think of a certain score from 1986.

Nevertheless, I'll ask first if the range in years could be between 1984 and 1991?

The year is 1992. The film, "There Goes the Neighborhood".

The composer: David Bell (such notable TV work: "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", "Star Trek: Voyager", "In the Heat of the Night", "Murder, She Wrote")


I knew nothing of the film -- just checked it out to hear some more by Bell.

Right off the bat I could tell it was being done carefully. The plot is simple, but in this film things are never simple. The twists and turns are ridicuously convoluted -- in a good way; nothing I was expecting when it started watching.

The writing is delightful, the characters interesting and each different. Every single one comes in some useful way to move the plot along -- it's a carefully crafted film.

Jeff Daniels plays Willis Embry, a prison phycologist counseling members. Quickly in the film an old convict tells Embry he's got hidden away millions of dollars under a house, but he's too old to enjoy the money now -- what with conviniently dying of cancer, so he gives Embry the address. In the cell next to tell, one of the meanr prisoners is listening but a cell shutting blocks parts of the address number.

There's a prison escape. And very soon they and Embry find themselves tearng up basements next door to each other in a neighborhood full of noosey neighbors, who are all imperfect, and one of the houses is up for sale.


Really enjoyed it, worth another viewing certainly.

Part one of the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTYmTJvB6ig

Huuuuummmmm.....

NAH.

Ah, but to say everything is dependant on your scope, is to throw out descriptive terms that define more accurately your scope, with such examples: "connoisseur", "expert" (in some specified area) and so forth. ;-)



I'm only including films that I watch from this point on, unless it's a CD/CD-R from my collection, and since I only speak one language, don't count on any obscure Polish deposits in here (and no, that doesn't sound dirty at all).

Another clue:
The decade is the 1970's.


Will reveal Tuesday.

Mystery Score Clip 19:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC6EYidSRss

My second more recent score suite; not as young as the other, but close. Composer is famous right now, but that wasn't always so.

Indeed!

But I can't place the composer either. Without any further info I would be tempted to think of David Whitaker....but I guess that's too old school?

Plus he's hardly "famous", even in soundtrack circles.
It was just the very first association that popped into my head.

Not Poledouris, but FalkirkBairn has the composer nailed.

Why? For the love of God, WHYYYYYyyyyy?

Justin Boggan is "Guilty As Sin" for posting portions of one of Sidney Lumet's least directorial efforts!

Who was Shore's orchestrator on this one, Justin?

Yeah, there are "worse' movies by Lumet according to critics - "Gloria", for example, which I never watched.
I did see "Guilty As Sin" sometime during the 1990s, but didn't think highly of it (like most people at the time).

For me, Lumet's "best" will always be his early black-and-white films from the late-1950s and early-1960s.
You should've posted mystery score clips from Lumet's "Fail-Safe" or "The Hill" - nobody would be able to guess who wrote those scores!

You haven't seen Fail-safe??

Easily the most harrowing cold war/atomic threat movie I have *ever* seen, bar none.
It cause Henry Fonda to be my favourite American president ever, until Martin Sheen came along in the West Wing....and it's still a tie!