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posted 19 years ago by DiorGalliano
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The music in this movie is really classic and seems so familiar. What other movies can you hear this music?

[–] lasermagnetic 18 years ago

Franz Reizenstein wrote the score for "The Mummy" and also "Circus of Horrors". Both films' dramatic underscores are very similar as, not only because they are from the same composer, they were also both mixed by Ken Cameron of Anvil Films at Beaconsfield Studios and recorded within a year of each other (1959 and 1960).

[–] DiorGalliano 18 years ago

oh cool! thanks!

[–] BillyFisher 17 years ago

Some of the music was reused (uncredited) in The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964).

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[–] alanbobet 16 years ago

The complete score for Hammer Films' THE MUMMY by composer Franz Reizenstein was released on CD by GDI Records in 1999 with an introduction by Christopher Lee(Kharis) himself on the CD. The CD number is GDI Records GDICD006 and is available thru AMAZON & EBAY. Also available from GDI Records are the CD soundtracks for Hammer's other MUMMY films, BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB by Tristan Cary(GDICD019) and CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB by Carlo Nartelli(GDICD016). Only the score for THE MUMMY's SHROUD by Don Banks is not available on CD, although the main title track for this film is available on CD thru GDI Records in their HAMMER FILM MUSIC COLLECTION VOLUME TWO(GDICD005) .

[–] nickm2 12 years ago

Not being an expert, The Score reminds me a bit of the opening to "1 Million Years BC", but I have no idea of there is any connection (IE: Writer, composer, mixer etc)

[–] rarema 15 years ago

I love the opening theme, have since I first saw the film on telly and taped it.

When I made a prog rock collection CD for my car years ago I used that tune as the intro.

[–] TCMer 14 years ago

Parts of it reminded me a lot of Alban Berg's work, especially Lulu.

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[–] sherlock-37 11 years ago

I thought so too, at least the Viennese school.

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[–] sherlock-37 11 years ago

Try, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celest by Bela Bartok. You will love it. It's a full score, not a movie score, so it stands on its own. Unlike this score, it has no wordless choir. Also, this score reminds me a bit of the music from Ben Hur?

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[–] Enrique-8 10 years ago

Just started watching this movie and it must have been the sound quality or the distortion, but I did not admire it at all. I will have to rewind and listen again, but I am not hopeful.

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