Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

half notes of the oboe, then we have the Db maj 7 (Db/F/Ab/C) chord in Bar 2, and then
(in Bar 3) the Eb min 7 th (Eb/Gb/Bb/Db) chord.
End of cue.
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-Flying Down To Rio (1933) ** [music **]
http://www.amazon.com/Flying-Down-Rio-Doloresdel/dp/B000H6SXT2/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293679000&sr=1-1
There is one, maybe two, entertaining numbers in this old movie. Otherwise, I’d
skip it (no need to buy it) unless you want to hear a few Steiner background cues (not
very memorable).
-The Wild, Wild West: First Season (1966) **
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-West-Complete-First-
Season/dp/B000ERVJKO/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1293679093&sr=1-2-fkmr0
James Bond out in the Wild West! I like the energy of the show but as the series
progressed (as in Lost in Space) the stories got stupider and stupider! I would like to buy
all the seasons in order to find hidden gems in the music (such as Fred Steiner scores) but
right now I don’t have that kind of disposable money! Call it “Tame, Tame Austerity.”
-The Atomic Bomb Movie (1999) *** 1/2 [music ****]
http://www.amazon.com/Trinity-Beyond-Atomic-Bomb-
Movie/dp/B00000IML5/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293679258&sr=1-2
This is a pretty interesting documentary narrated by Captain James T. Kirk…eh,
William Shatner. He’s good but perhaps for this kind of ominous subject matter they
should’ve hired someone with a “voice of death” such as Lorne Greene or Herbert Lom!
Or perhaps Gene Evans describing dire atomic bomb aftermaths: “And afterwards, these
mysterious figures—faces masked with lead—these are ourselves, men! The kings of the
earth trying to measure the extent of the destruction they themselves created.” Of course
that line was taken from his movie, The Giant Behemoth. I reviewed on Talking
Herrmann the music from the Trinity series that was released as compact discs in 2004:
http://herrmann.uib.no/talking/view.cgi?forum=thGeneral&topic=1606
So some of the music by Stromberg is ala Mysterious Island (especially
Herrmann’s “Exploration” cue in Stromberg’s cue, “Improved Stockpile Bomb”) and
also Jason & the Argonauts (around 00:08:35 and 00:29:51—“Fat Man & Little Boy”
and “Boosting With Tritium” Stromberg cues--dvd in the Atomic Bomb Movie). Overall I
would edge towards enjoying more the John Morgan cues. I liked the March music in the
“Armada Annihilation” cue (track # 6 cd), and “Operation Ranger Able” (track # 12) is
bold and quite rousing music. Morgan’s “Thermonuclear Cherokee” (track # 18; dvd
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