Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

classic!). I loved the actors such as Jack Younger as simpleton, Jasper, the hilarious
caveman (Gregg Martel), and especially Fred Engelberg who played Mike Hacker! He
never did another movie after Dinosaurus!—I guess the bad reputation being in this
movie killed his career because the critics wrote Big Chill reviews! Nevertheless, I enjoy
this movie. I especially was taken by the rich color saturations—very addicting to watch!
It reminds me of some of the tv series of the period with the same richness of the color
spectrum such as Mannix and the original Star Trek and others. I was surprised to hear
that Steve McQueen was originally meant to be in the Ward Ramsey role (the producer
previously did The Blob that McQueen starred in) but it never happened. They even used
the Brontosaurus model and miniature jungle for a scene in the “Odyssey of Flight 33”
episode of the Twilight Zone. The music by Ronald Stein is very good. I especially like
the rather Herrmannesque Main Title. So I am giving this exuberant score a four star
**** classic rating. You can purchase it below:
http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm?ID=5427
-E.T. (1982) **** [music ****]
http://www.amazon.com/T-Extra-Terrestrial-Widescreen-Henry-
Thomas/dp/B000A2IPP0/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293596914&sr=1-1
This is a classic Spielberg sci-fi family feature (although I enjoyed the first
Indiana Jones movie more!). I was only able to obtain some of the music so I could not
do a rundown of the score yet. Maybe in some Eventual Time (E.T.)!
-On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) *** � [music *** �]
http://www.amazon.com/Her-Majestys-Secret-
Service/dp/B00004RG65/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293597282&sr=1-1
This is a pretty decent James Bond, actually. It stars a brand new actor for the
role, George Lazenby--his only movie as Bond (“That never happened to the other one”).
The music by John Barry is good but he did not yet of course go into his lush style that
started with Moonraker. Instead he still had his then-customary Stan Kenton type of bold
and big brass band music. But he was innovative in using the Moog synthesizer in the
score, starting a trend for movies the next decade.
-King Kong (1933) **** [music ****]
http://www.amazon.com/King-Kong-Two-Disc-Special-
Wray/dp/B00003CXAW/ref=sr_1_7?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293597355&sr=1-7
What can one say? This is classic early sci-fi entertainment that probably started
the trend saying of that period, “You big ape!” It’s a big ape of a score by Max Steiner as
well. I managed to work a bit on the full score at UCLA many years ago but not enough
to do a film score rundown treatment. I did manage, however, to provide a very brief
rundown of cues on my first potpourri of rundowns:
http://www.filmscorerundowns.net/other/potpourri.pdf
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