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That musical score ... what does it remind me of?

posted 11 years ago by pammahl
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Toward the end of the movie - after the beating, when Angie Dickinson is trying to tend to Brando's injuries - the score caught my attention. It instantly put the picture of James Bond, played by Sean Connery, into my mind. Of course, I immediately went to imdb to look up the composer, just knowing it was John Barry, even before I read his name.

Does anybody know which of the James Bond movies that same musical cue can be heard? I'm thinking maybe Thunderball, but not sure.

[–] moviethrush 11 years ago

There's most definitely chunks of "Thunderball" in there....the entire score has the signature sound that Barry created specifically for the Bond films...what makes it seem even more Bondian...the opening minutes of the score play over
Maurice Binder's main title design...very, very similar to the visual design of his Bond main titles.

[–] mvpx7 10 years ago

Sounds more to me like elements of "From Russia, With Love," particularly the scenes at the gypsy camp.

[–] urgeking 8 years ago

The musical figure near the beginning of the opening credits, and again at the end just after Bubber gets shot, could have come right out of several 007 films from the '60s and '70s. So Barry may have re-used some bits in different movies, but, hey, they were good enough to be worth re-using.

More six degrees of James Bond: Clifton James, the sheriff from "Live and Let Die" and "The Man with the Golden Gun", plays Lem here (with a much less exaggerated good-ole-boy tone). We also see Bruce Cabot, who played Willard Whyte's henchman Burt Saxby in "Diamonds Are Forever".

[–] Starcraft_rules 8 years ago

I knew from the first seconds of score that it's John Barry.