I'm surprisingly watching this movie for the very first time on the Turner Classic Movies channel . Yet I have always heard this movie's theme song through out the years on other movies or TV Commercials etc. . This beautiful tune has always left a most memorable impression for me . Does anyone else here feel the same about this song too ?
share I thought the entire score was beautiful, especially the music that seemed to be played more for the older couple. It was very sad sounding.
I definitely agree OhmsLaw the music in this movie was just right in all the different scenes . It's almost as if each score was chosen with care for each scene to really set the tone for this movie . A wonderful and most sentimental yet sad film too . I hope TCM will show this movie again soon . It's so worth viewing this wonderful classic a second time . Thanks OhmsLaw for your reply .
shareThe whole score by Max Steiner is amazing.
The love theme is definitely one of the all-time great movie themes, and it's beautifully arranged and scored for the film. I have always preferred this version to the famous Percy Faith recording, which certainly wasn't bad.
I'm very glad to read here that I am not the only one who appreciates these wonderful classic instrumental movie theme songs . They just don't make them like this anymore but they still get so much nicer with age too . Thanks rorysa for your reply .
shareIf you would care to go into my review for the movie on this page you will learn all about the score and especially about the beautiful adult theme which was also used over the titles.
"help is forever at hand".
It's also in Animal House when Schoenstein seduces Mrs. Wormer during the toga party. The theme in the movie is slightly different than the one we're used to hearing on the radio.
shareOh no kidding lol ! I haven't seen National Lampoon's Animal House in ages ( a very funny movie too ! ) . I will have to look out for that scene next time this movie is back on cable TV . Thanks lroy77 for the movie moment reminder and your reply .
shareI actually watched this movie because I was youtubing the song and came across the trailer... Glad I did! :)
"We can't stop here. This is bat country"
I bought the Percy Faith 45 single around the fall of 1977 after hearing it a few times. Thought it was catchy (what a peculiar 19-year-old I must have been), bought it and have probably listened to it well over 100 times over the decades.
Never thought to watch the movie until about 4 or 5 nights ago (what a lagging 54-year-old I am!!) and finally got through it at 3:30 this morning. It took me long enough, but now I have finally enjoyed the entire experience of "A Summer Place".
It's a beautiful score, and I especially like the way the theme is used and re-used throughout, without being heard to excess and used subtly rather than jarringly to accompany the tender dialog.
I wish I had watched the movie back around the time I bought the record when I could have appreciated it more, but I have an idea that even then it would have seemed dated. The 60's rendered ground-breaking material such as this archaic, or at least scenarios such as these had become more commonplace during the decade to come and therefore less "shocking" as society began to shed its inhibitions.