Murder and Mayhem: Suites from The Lodger (1944 Film) / The Beast With Five Fingers (1946 Film) / The Uninvited (1944 Film) [3 on 1] [Soundtrack]

Victor Young, Hugo Friedhofer, Max Steiner | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 19, 1999)
• Original Release Date: February 8, 1947
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Marco Polo
• ASIN: B00002EPTX
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #262,389 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars More beautiful than spooky, October 19, 1999

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F. Behrens "Frank Behrens" (Keene, NH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Murder and Mayhem: Suites from The Lodger (1944 Film) / The Beast With Five Fingers (1946 Film) / The Uninvited (1944 Film) [3 on 1] (Audio CD)

A character in "Private Lives" comments how potent cheap music can be. Noel Coward might have written the same about "movie music." . Some of the most unlikely films have some really good scores and Marco Polo has already proven that in some of their fairly recent CDs of music from such horror films as "House of Frankenstein" and "The Wolf Man"! In the same tradition, we now have their <Murder and Mayhem> (8.225132) with suites from the scores of "The Beast With Five Fingers" (Max Steiner), "The Lodger" (Hugo Friedhofer), and "The Uninvited" (Victor Young). The surprise of this collection is that much of the scores are not "spooky" but rather lovely. Now notice that these are arrangements and reconstructions from the original scores and as such are played by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra under William T. Stromberg. Very listenable and while not as much fun as the earlier sets, much more passionate. With a title like "Murder and Mayhem," go figure!