Use of Unused Herrmann Music from Hitchocck's "Torn Curtain" (1966) (MAJOR SPOILERS)

In 1966, famous movie director Alfred Hitchcock was finishing up his new spy thriller, Torn Curtain, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.

Signed to do the musical score was famous musical composer Bernard Herrmann, who had provided the historic scores for Psycho(with the screeching violins) , Vertigo, North by Northwest, and five other Hitchcock films.

...and Hitchcock fired Bernard Herrmann off of Torn Curtain. Hitchcock was scared that Herrmann's music was "too old fashioned." It was cowardly behavior on Hitch's part -- but he feared being old in Hollywood himself. Just like Rick Dalton.

One of the pieces of music that Herrmann had written for "Torn Curtain" was violent, wrenching music for a scene called "The Death of Gromek" in which Paul Newman had to slowly kill an East German agent named Gromek in a farmhouse kitchen...using a knife, a shovel, bare hands...very violent sequence.

But in the movie, "The Death of Gromek" has no music.

In 1991, director Martin Scorsese made a remake of a 1962 thriller called Cape Fear, which also had music by Bernard Herrmann. Scorsese not only had Herrmann's score reorchestrated for Cape Fear -- he put in the unused "Death of Gromek" music for the hurricane finale. Thus --the late Herrmann's great unused Death of Gromek music FINALLY ended up in a movie, and by a great director)Scorsese.)

Now, in 2019, Quentin Tarantino has brought back, yet again, Herrmann's "Death of Gromek" music for two very important scenes in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood:

It is the music for the "Nazi BBQ flame thrower" clip in "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood"(at the beginning) and for Leo using the same flame thrower to roast a Manson follower at the end.

And so, music written for Alfred Hitchcock in 1966 has now been used by Martin Scorsese in 1991, and by Quentin Tarantino in 2019.

Nice work, Bernard Herrmann!