Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

http://www.filmscorerundowns.net/herrmann/bh_tvworks.pdf
-Parrish (1960) *** 1/2 [music ****]
http://www.amazon.com/Parrish-Delmer-
Daves/dp/B001QYVW0Q/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1292987498&sr=1-2
I consider this the best of the Troy Donahue vehicles for Warner Bros at that
period in the late Fifties and early Sixties. Many people say The Summer Place is a
classic but the story is so lame and dated and highly moralistic that it’s laughable. Karl
Malden is just terrific in his over-the-top performance for this egoistic business tycoon
role. The real treat is Max Steiner’s multi-varied (or multi-melody) music! I already
discussed the score on my site:
http://www.filmscorerundowns.net/steiner/parrish.pdf
-Playhouse 90: “Without Incident” (1956) **
http://www.scorpiotv.com/images/WithoutIncident.jpg
I reviewed this Errol Flynn vehicle on Talking Herrmann:
http://herrmann.uib.no/talking/view.cgi?forum=thGeneral&topic=3427
-Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) **
http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Flying-Saucers-Color-
Special/dp/B000YDOOHI/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1292987939&sr=1-1
I am now (Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 5:25 pm) popping this colorized
version of the movie (Legend Films), the second of the trio of early Harryhausen films
for Columbia that originally of course were black & white because Harryhausen simply
did not have the budget for color. I liked what Legend Films did for this movie in the new
colorization process. I liked the light cream green color of the old sedan (dvd 00:05:48). I
liked the backyard barbeque scene (dvd 00:12:19) with the nice yellows.
I like this movie more than It Came From Beneath the Sea. For one thing it is
relatively action-packed compared to the previous movie. You don’t have to wait long at
all to see the monster (in this case, the flying saucers). There are relatively few slow &
“talky” periods (at least not long ones). One of my favorite sections was the landing of
the saucer at Belmont Lab at night (or should I say day for night!). The scene was not
adequately adjusted. I got a chuckle at 00:57:48 when the flying saucer decides to blow
up the Pacific Marine Paint Co. supposedly right next to the Belmont Lab. Logically it
appears that paint may be hazardous to these aliens! I am surprised Dr. Marvin did not
think of that! Shortly the saucer leaves in a nice distance vantage shot (dvd 00:59:16)
showing a forest fire scene with three blazes going on—the general fire scene as the
saucer tries to wipe out Dr. Marvin, his wife, and Major Huglin; Belmont Lab; and of
course don’t forget the Pacific Marine Paint Company strategically located in the middle
of a forest! I also enjoyed all the scientific jargon in this movie that I learned from
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