Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

to same D 8 th down to Bb half note to (Bar 2) A 8 th up to D quarter note to E 8 th to F-E
8ths to F dotted quarter note.
-Intermission Music for Part 3.
-Reel 12/A Intro Music to Reel 12. 13 pages, 145 bars.
-Reel 12/1 Maestoso tragico in C time, 9 pages, 33 bars. After a half and 8 th rest,
the violins and clarinets play a series of chromatic ascending notes starting with “8” 32 nd
notes small octave Eb/G to E/G# to F/A to Gb/Bb to G/B to Ab/middle C to A/C# to
Bb/D to (Bar 2) “6” 16 th figures.
ETC. Reel 15/2 is “The New Store” Allegretto in 6/8 time, key signature of one
flat, 41 bars. Reel 17/2 is Belle & Melanie in Carriage, 5 pages, 44 bars. Reel 18/2 is
“Nightmare” of 46 bars. Reel 22/1 is “The Accident” 9 pages, 50 bars. I believe the score
ends on Reel 24. Long movie!
In “Nightmare” the strings and woodwinds are fingered trem/legato trem mf
between Line 1 A/B/Line 2 Eb dotted half notes and Bb/C/F dotted half notes twice in the
bar. The oboe plays staccato 8 th note figures B-F#-Bb to E-G#-middle C to Line 2 C-Line
1 F#-Line 1 B to E-G#-middle C. Other instruments play descending to ascending 16ths
Line 1 G#-G-F#-F-E (unclear) to D-D#-E-F#-G, repeated same bar.
-Third Man on the Mountain (1959) *** 1/2 [music ****]
http://www.amazon.com/Third-Man-Mountain-Michael-
Rennie/dp/B0001Z51LC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1293329768&sr=1-1
I am giving this movie and music score both a near classic rating. It has great
nostalgic value to me. I vaguely remember seeing this movie at the theater when it came
out in November 1959, and I was impressed then as a nine-year old. That end of 1959
was very memorable for me because after this movie came out, an even more impressive
movie was released, Journey To the Center of the Earth! Some of the sets and the matte
paintings were quite atmospheric. Of course the movie is primarily at actual locales,
especially Zermatt (Matterhorn is the main attraction there). The movie is also excellently
cast: James MacArthur and Janet Munro are quite appealing and energetic; Michael
Rennie is fine as the legendary mountain-climber; James Donald is always good to have
around; Herbert Lom and his voice of death is a definite plus, and so on.
I attempted to pull this score at Disney Studios in the early Nineties but had no
luck. While it was a Disney production, the movie was London-based and apparently the
written score is still there somewhere. I was hoping Disney had a reproduction in their
files, or even a Conductor score, but no luck, unfortunately. I like the cue around 1:26: 46
especially. There is a book titled “William Alwyn: The Art of Film Music” by Ian
Johnson.” Google book it at:
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