Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

I purchased this dvd from Warner Archive for two main reasons: Max Steiner’s
music that I was eager to hear, and Edward G. Robinson (I’m a fan). Of course I was
also curious to see George Sanders as a crew-cut Nazi, and Paul Lukas as a Nazi official.
This movie is, I believe, the premiere anti-Nazi series of movies that Warner Bros.
produced, and rather overdone in my opinion! It’s not at all subtle or nuanced or clever!
I never pulled the written score but I do have the cue sheets. There are some
omissions in them, starting with the opening of Reel 1. Of course we hear the Warner
Bros. Signature composed by Max (originally for Gold Is Where You Find It) but at the
dvd section 00:00:08 - :16 you hear a segment of Max’s arrangement of the Deutschland
Uber Alles (unknown composer) but it was not referenced after a.) Signature but
apparently included in the Signature timing since that was allotted 21 seconds duration.
After a music-less segment showing a man speaking in silhouette at a microphone, we
fade to a Scottish scene with “Annie Laurie” (unknown composer) playing.
The next medley (3.) shows a.) Misterioso (Max Steiner) located on the dvd at
00:01:43. This is where the lady opens the mysterious letter and addresses an outgoing
letter to Nazis. Then you hear b.) Die Wacht An Rhein (C. Wilhelm). Later the only entry
in the 4 th medley (dvd 00:04:32) is Deutschland Uber Alles during the applause of the
Nazi speaker (played by Paul Lukas). Then there is a tavern scene with the players
performers a tune. The cue sheets state “German March” (Max Steiner) but I am not sure
if this is truly accurate. After this in the 7 th medley is a.) The Imposter (Max Steiner)
located at 00:07:29 for just over half a minute. This is the NYPL scene. The music seques
to b.) Die Wacht Am Rhein (C. Wilheim/public domain). At 00:1013 is the Bismarck
scene where a cable operator gets a transmitted message (to George Sanders). This single
Medley item in # 8 is “The Operator” (music by Max Steiner). This telegraph-type music
is employed by Max many times (in old-time Westerns, etc.).Then at 00:16:12 in Medly
# 9 we hear Deutschland Uber Alles, and in # 10 we hear “Misterioso” (Steiner) at dvd
00:18:59.
At 00:29:21 we hear in medley # 11 d.) Papacoda Polka (J. Strauss) as V.I. (visual
instrumental) in the tavern scene. Later (dvd 00:33:06) at the end of medly # 11, e.) “I
Don’t Want To Go Back”) when the Nazi operator is forced back to go back to the
Homeland (Germany). Then at the 34-minute point roughly is The Arrival, The Train,
and Montage music at the end of Reel 4. At the start of Reel 5 is a long music sequence
of about two minutes, essentially a montage about how the Nazis engage in active
propaganda in America. So we start at (dvd 00:38:05) at a.) “Printing Press” (Max
Steiner) that incorporates soon Die Wacht Am and then (00:39:01) Yankee Doodle
(unknown composer), and then “America” (unknown) and Yankee Doodle again. Then f.)
Propaganda (Steiner), etc. That Scottish woman seen in the opening of the movie is
arrested in the 14 th medley a.) America (dvd 00:41:38). This seques to b.) Yankee Doodle
with the cut to the FBI offices (00:42:09) for only two or three seconds, ending abruptly.
Very soon we finally get to see Edward G. Robinson as the head FBI official. At
00:46:27 is Under The Flag of Victory (Von Blom) Visual Instrumental as the Nazi
youth do a parade in front of their Nazi superiors. This seques to the start of the 17 th
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