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Went to see ANNE OF THE INDIES (TCF - 1951), about a female pirate, last night. It was a nice film if you like the period and its ilk.
What was really fun was Franz Waxman’s music. Very much in the style of Korngold’s swashbucklers, it clocked in at at-least 40-50 minutes (the film is 88 minutes and there’s not too many scenes unscored). Some very lively scoring, including a sword fight (almost too lively, to my taste) and, of course, lots of fanfare when the ship comes on the screen, and a BIG swell of music in the kissing scene. It does have a lot of what I thought marred the recordings of SUNSET BLVD and PRINCE VALIANT: significant passages of repetitive music, but there’s enough else that I found it a lot of fun to hear.
I hope some label is working on releasing or recording it, since only a short suite was done on Varese. Since it’s Twentieth-Century Fox and 1951, who might that be?
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DavidinBerkeley
"Ask [the director] where the camera comes from and I'll tell him where the music comes from" (David Raksin)
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