Thor 7,504 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Courtesy of member filmmusic here on the board, here are two clips from the TV movie adapted from the episode "Once Upon a Savage Night" from KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER, directed by Robert Altman. It's the main title theme and the march for the convoy. More opinions on film and score here:http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=85885&forumID=1&archive=0&pageID=1&r=409#bottomhttp://www.celluloidtunes.net/non-website/chicago1.mp3http://www.celluloidtunes.net/non-website/chicago2.mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,829 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Well, as I've said before, the main title theme which appears in the TV movie (and NOT in the Kraft Suspense Theatre) seems totally cut out from the rest of the score and I'm not sure if Williams composed this specifically for the movie or if it's an earlier composition of his that they added there.All the rest of the score is very coherent and unified but this stands out and sounds totally irrelevant.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 True, but it's still the highlight of the score, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie 1 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 @Thor & FilmmusicMain Title (for the feature presentation of this episode) is most probablyby Stanley Wilson.I have spotted the whole episode back in November. As well as half of allexisting Kraft Suspense episodes, and I seriously doubt it's Opening Titlesare out of JW's pen. It's a different, pretty anonymous style. It doesn't evensound like it was only arranged by JW.The music in the series was partially composed (mostly about 10 minutes of score for each episode) and partially tracked from other shows and thestudio's audio libraries. Stanley Wilson, at the time, was head of Revue Studios/Universal Musicand therefore Johnny Williams' boss and supervisor, also working with himon Kraft Suspense.AugieThe rest of the score is vintage Williams, of course!Actually I'm working on a listenable suite of the original music featuredin this episode. The convoy theme gets repeated over and over again,sometimes tracked. I have to sort it out.The movie itself is quite difficult to find if you want to track it down. EvenRobert Altman didn't have a copy.Augie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 Yeah, Jeff Eldridge over at FSM alluded to the fact that the main title music may not be by Williams, after all. Personally, I thought it sounded quite a lot like his crime jazz music (reminiscent of M SQUAD, for example). Would be interesting to know for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,829 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 just wanted to copy the information here for those who don't check FSM:the Main Titles are by Stanley Wilson (as an FSM member pointed out): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 Damn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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