Rod McKuen composed some really good music for Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969). However, every time I hear it, I can see Jackie Chan and Yeung Pan Pan doing kung fu! Stock music from the film was recycled in the Drunken Master movies.
sharelmfao, that kind of spoils it....really kung fu?? Jesus what is wrong with people...
I'm surprised you're the only person to comment, I thought the music score was fantastic. Most people may recognize Oliver's rendition of Jean, personally the music score itself always moves me the most. Rod McKuen does a lovely understated version.
Agree with you Felixthecat50.
I am Edinburgh born and found the score very evocative, especially now I am retired south of the border. Nostalgic movie for me as spent my happiest childhood days in Edinburgh, no doubts there.
Maggie Smith was superb as Jean Brodie, just superb.
I must say that I think Arthur Greenslade, who arranged and conducted the score, deserves the lion's share of the credit for its effectiveness. For example, consider his handling of the "Jean" theme (which, to tell the truth, I find rather saccharine (the theme, not his handling of it)). Notice, for example, how he derails it when Miss Mackay makes her first appearance -- just as Mackay does everything she can to "derail" Brodie!
shareA bit more on the subject. As far as I can see, all Rod McKuen did was to supply a few themes (the "Jean" theme, the "Edinburgh" theme that occurs at the beginning and when Brodie and the girls are walking through the city, the "sick fantasy" theme accompanying Brodie's plan to engineer an affair between Teddy Lloyd and Jenny, and a few fragments here and there). I think Greenslade really deserves the credit.
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