Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

medley (00:47:20) of a. ) Der Hautumadl (unknown) also as a V.I. in the tavern scene.
This is followed by b. ) Muthig Voran (J. Strauss) but faintly heard because there is a
conference behind closed doors.
Werner Renz (played by Joe Sawyer who would later play the drill sergeant in
Sergeant York) is arrested at 1:02:56 at the start of Medley # 20. This is a. ) The Arrest
(Max Steiner). I think that’s enough information. The movie music ends at Reel 11 with
“America The Beautiful” (S. Ward), Public Domain. [end session Thursday, January 27,
2011 at 12:11 pm]
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-Mission To Moscow (1943) *** [music ***]
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I liked this movie better than Confessions of a Nazi Spy. For one thing, it was a far
more “serious” film based faithfully on Joseph E. Daves (the protagonist of the film
played by Walter Huston), although I confess I like pure entertainment movies of this
genre with the right stars and music (such as the fun and dynamic Desperate Journey
produced a year earlier). While the history about Russia and Stalin in that period was
positively skewed by propaganda at the time (the Cold War would come within a
decade!), you still could learn a lot from the movie as Daves travels thru Russia and
Europe. The sentiment was that an enemy of Hitler was a friend of ours (even a
murderous bastard like Stalin). So the movie was quite watchable by me and kept my
attention (tho not necessarily for many future re-showings!), but once again, I mainly
bought this dvd for the music (composed by Max Steiner).
I did not pull the written score (not a priority for me) but I do have Xeroxes of the
cue sheets dated May 21, 1943. The movie opens with the Hail Columbia (Fayles-
Hopkinson/arranged by Steiner) followed by a long four-minute monolog of Ambassador
Daves himself. It was okay but a bit too long. If I were the producer of this movie, I
would have deleted it. Considering that Daves was intimately involved with the movie,
and the contract apparently stipulated final approval on matters (veto power on the
script), then it appears he was granted his humble appearance permanently on screen in
the Introduction before the actual movie! Oh, well. Once the movie proper began with the
Main Title, I finally settled down in my chair instead of getting up to make coffee! The
opening titles in the medley contain: a.) Main Title (actually the “Signature” or Warner
Bros. fanfare) starting on the dvd at 00:04:34. Then we hear b. ) Hail Columbia again for
21 or 22 seconds (starting 00:04:32) followed by (c) “Russian Folk Song” (unknown/arr.
Max Steiner) starting at 00:05:03. Then we soon come to (d) League of Nations (Max
Steiner) at 00:06:47 for the June 1936 conference in Geneva. After some speaking, the
“Delegation Leaves” music commences (dvd 00:09:14) as the Russian Ambassador
speaks. This seques to “America” (Unknown/arr. Max Steiner) starting at 00:09:34, and
then Die Wacht Am Rhein (Carl Wilhelm-Max Schneckenburger/arr. Max Steiner). The
next entry in that # 3 medley is “Crowd” (German crowd scene). Next we hear (e)
“Trumpets” at 00:10:42 followed by (f) Deutschland Uber Alles (Unknown/Arr. Max
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