Herrmann Music in Have Gun Will Travel and - Film Score Rundowns

I like this episode directed by Christian Nyby very much, and there’s a good deal
of Herrmann music in it, especially the rarely heard “Shadows” cue. The most
recognizable star is Dan Seymour playing the heavy, Harry Marlow. He often played film
noir crime heavies, including the first season of The Adventures of Superman. Also go to
very short Chapter 7. You’ll see two reporters interviewing Mason. The male reporter
(“Smithy,” I believe Mason called him) is familiar to me. He played a role with Edward
G. Robinson in the Warner Bros. crime movie, Illegal, that I liked. In the end credits, the
actor, Jimmy McCallion, is listed as playing the “Veteran Reporter.”
-Chapter 1 from 3:05 to 3:28 Chapter 2 starting at 2:23 new dvd]: “Bad Man”
(Western Suite) mixed bars. A very brief fragment of this cue is also played at the end of
brief Chapter 9.
-Chapter 1 from 17:05 to 17:11 (end of chapter)[ Chapter 3 starting at 13:23]:
[???] This sounds Herrmannesque but I cannot yet identify it. It probably belongs to
Garriguenc. Scene: Old man in car seeing the blonde pass by.
-Chapter 5 from 1:11 to 1:48 Chapter 5 starting at 1:11 new dvd as well]:
“Shadows” (Western Suite) Bars 42-51 (end of cue). Scene: Perry is alone entering a
house whereupon he finds a (dead) body! A Siamese cat is there as well (but quite alive!).
Note: This cue from the Western Suite was not included in the Cerberus LP/Prometheus
cd albums. The music seems rather out of place in a “Western” genre of music, more in
keeping with a “Police Force” or mystery character of cues. It’s nice hearing this music
here since we rarely ever get to hear this particular cue in the CBS series.
-Chapter 5 from 1:50 to 2:23 (both dvds): “Shadows” (Western Suite), Bars 42-51
once again.
-Chapter 5 from 3:45 to 5:15 (both dvds) : “Shadows” (Western Suite) Bars 17-
26, 30-33, 42-51.
-Chapter 10 from 1:22 to 1:42 [Chapter 6 starting at 6:40 new dvd]: “Night
Suspense” (Western Suite)
-Chapter 10 from 3:58 to 4:13 Chapter 6 starting at 9:16 new dvd]: “Bad Man”
(Western Suite)
-Chapter 10 from 4:14 to 5:43 [Chapter 9 starting at 9:32 new dvd]: “The
Waiting” (Western Suite) Bars 1-8, and then 21-33 (end of cue). Note that this cue was
also not included in the Cerberus/Prometheus albums. Scene: The blonde Lola Florey
(Peggy Maley) returns back to home and starts to undress! The Herrmann music fitted
quite nicely here, reminding me of his music for Sisters when the “blind” woman was
being watched undressing in the gym at the beginning of the movie. If this was a French
series, then Jeanne Moreau would’ve been perfectly cast in this role as Lola.
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“The Case of the Crooked Candle” November 30, 1957 ** C
The companion episode to the one above, there is however no Herrmann music in
this one except perhaps for one tiny fragment in Chapter 3 in Tragg’s office, I believe.
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