Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

I am still watching the movie on my dvd player (Thursday, February 10, 2011 at
5:12 pm) after starting it after 10 pm last evening (with my wife watching also). Nice
Technicolor print, although I think Dive Bomber is a truer, better print. I’ve seen this
movie a few times many years ago (perhaps decades ago!) but this is the first time
recently I’ve sat down to absorb the plot, acting and of course the music! As I will
delineate in the cue sheet information below, right after the Main Title is 2 (a) “The Pals”
as Errol Flynn and his two pals ride along the 1866 Kansas plain. Immediately what
struck me here (dvd 00:04:42) was that the music was later liberally self-borrowed in
Max’s 1952 score for The Lion and the Horse. I discuss this movie in my newest blog
because it was aired on Turner Classic Movies a few weeks ago, and I suspect it will soon
be made available at the Warner Archive site. The same applies to Max’s The Hanging
Tree (1959) I assume because TCM just aired a nice print of it on Tuesday.
The cue sheets are dated March 14, 1939, Production #9184-9194. The
information given in the cue sheets is far from perfect, however. Several times the
placements are not there or jumbled, and often the timings are inaccurate. I like this
Flynn western but probably my favorite is San Antonio.
No. Selection Composer Publisher Extent How Used Time
1 (a) Signature (Max Steiner) Witmark Entire BKG.INST. :10
(b) Dodge City (Max Steiner) “ “ “ 1:22
2 (a) The Pals (Max Steiner) “ “ “ 1:35
[dvd location 00:04:42]
(b) The Old Chisholm Trail (unknown/Pub. Dom) Partial Vis. Voc. :11
[dvd location 00:05:19]
(c) The Iron Horse (Max Steiner)
(d) The Comrades (Max Steiner) 1:04
(e) Surrett (Max Steiner) :20
3 The Old Chisholm Trail :11 [dvd 00:08:51]
Reel 2
4 Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean (Unknown/Pub. Dom.) Vis. Inst. :37
[dvd location 00:08:59]
5 (a) Dodge City (Max Steiner) 1:01 [dvd location 00:11:56]
(b) The Covered Wagon (Max Steiner) :26
6 I’se Gwine Back To Dixie (C.A. White) Pub. Dom. Vis. Voc. 3:52
Reel 3
7 (a) Adagio (Max Steiner) 1:13 [dvd location 00:17:27. Funeral scene for cattle dealer
Yancey shot]
(b) Agitato Misterioso (Max Steiner) :44
(c) The Sheriff Rides (Max Steiner) :28
8 (a) The Covered Wagon (Max Steiner) 3:28 [dvd location 00:20:53. Scene: Broad
Plain at the Kansas border. Wade Hatton (Flynn) leads the covered wagons. This is a
majestic nine-note theme by Max. I like it better than the “Dodge City” Main Title theme.
(b) The Sunrise (Max Steiner) :07
(c) Oh Susanna (Stephen Foster/Pub. Dom.) :08
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