I am not sure how I got this. My best guess is it was a thrift store find. Seeing the cover and the composer, I had to give it a shot. I have never seen this movie. Having read the plot outline on the web, I am intrigued. Maybe even enough to spend $3 on an online rental. The premise seems good.
Music. Since this is a film score. I have to mention the movie briefly. It is apparently about a psycho-killer that kidnaps a bank teller and her teenage sister to get the teller to steal money. I was surprised to find that the side A was very light. It has a three twists on it even a twist rendition of the main theme song. There's some possible loop material in Fluter's Ball and the twists can be given more umph with a B'more beat or a Breakbeat.
The B-side is much darker. It includes the main theme and some music that is meant to drive the suspense. During my first listen, I was surprised that there wasn't more of that. Then I realized that many of the tunes were supposed to support the setting rather than the action: tracks such as Final Out and Down by the Wharf.
Another interesting note about this is that on the liner notes they make a big fuss about Mancini having used two autoharps in this composition. It treated the instrument like something he should have to apologize for. "Although the autoharp is not a regulation instrument, Mancini used the unique sound of two of these instruments to create and exciting and interesting theme." Who regulates what a regulation instrument is?
All in all, this is a fun sound track to play. Its not overly repetitious as many are today. Given the topic of the film the music is mostly light and airy.
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