Friday, September 24, 2021

Recent discovery: Um Null Uhr schnappt die Falle zu

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Jerry Cotton’s third adventure is a corker, despite the lamentably excessive use of stock footage and rear projection (always a distraction ...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

From the cutting room floor: How I Spent My Summer Vacation

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Lalo Schifrin’s jazzy and occasional cheeky score kept this film on the list during several editing iterations, but ultimately I had to admi...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Recent discovery: Face of the Frog

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It’s difficult to imagine a film this modest igniting an enormously successful 12-year franchise, yet that’s precisely what happened. 1959’s...
Friday, July 16, 2021

A resurrected "reject" by Jerry Goldsmith

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The jazz content in 1992’s  The Public Eye  is entirely diegetic: lively combo source cues performed by the house band at Café Society, the ...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

The beat goes on: No Sudden Move

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Belfast-born David Holmes initially seemed an unlikely candidate for film scoring, having focused his early career on DJing and solo albums ...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Recent discovery: The Strange Countess

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Composer Peter Thomas’ second Edgar Wallace  Krimi ,  Die seltsame Gräfin , is one of the genre’s flamboyantly lurid entries. ( Read this po...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

FYI: Behind-the-scenes change

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Greeting, loyal readers!   If you receive updates from Screen Action Jazz by email, this is a heads-up to let you know that the blog is chan...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Recent discovery: The London Forger

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West German cinema’s post-World War II infatuation with American and British culture took some intriguing turns: the Jerry Cotton series, fe...
Monday, June 14, 2021

Recent discovery: The Big Boss

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Quite a few composers have had their scores rejected by dissatisfied directors who wanted the music to move in a different direction, and th...
Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Shamus resurrected!

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1973’s  Shamus  arrived as Burt Reynolds was transitioning from television work — notably in the engaging shows  Hawk  and  Dan August , alt...