The theme music, played over the opening titles and in some scenes sounds VERY familiar. The only movie I can think of which it might be from is I WAKE UP SCREAMING. Cyril Mockridge was the composer for both. Any better guesses or maybe someone actually knows.
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It's Alfred Neuman's "Street Scene." I remember it well because it's also used at the start of "How to Marry a Millionaire" - the 20th Century Fox studio orchestra plays that, then there's a momentary pause and they launch into "New York" which is what's considered the main theme of that film. Fox used it in a lot of noir classics, including Kiss of Death.
And it's available on iTunes as well.
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Absolutely right.
the same musical theme in : the dark corner (1946) with Mark Stevens , Lucille Bail and William Bendix
shareWarner's was doing the same thing, recycling their mood music about the time they made The Big Sleep. There's this one theme which I spot in various different movies.
shareok hopey4 , now " street scene " theme is the call sound of my phone !!! a so beautiful music
shareAdd to this growing list "Cry of the City", another classic noir from Robert Siodmak.
shareand , of course, the first movie it appeared in was called..you guessed it.."Street Scene" directed by King Vidor in 1931 and starring Sylvia Sidney.
shareYeah, I recognised it as the theme used at the beginning of How to Marry a Millionaire as well. Lovely piece of music!
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it's in how to marry a millionaire too, NOT in the movie but before the movie start there's this long scene where an orchestra plays a score fantasia,and that's where you hear it
sharehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akf3Gi7rDRM
sound a lot like Gershwin
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I know you asked this 10 years ago, and you are correct. According to the onscreen credits the composer was indeed Cyril Mockridge. The theme is very haunting and beautiful, and I have an orchestrated version but it's on cassette taped from the radio, so I'm looking for a better copy. Wish me luck...
shareThe theme is not Mockridge's. It's "Street Scene" by Alfred Newman, composed for the King Vidor-directed movie of the same title, in 1931, and reused in several later films, including "Where the Sidewalk Ends".
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