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Music same as Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone


There is one part in this score which is very very similar if not identical to the Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce series. The connection from Wikipedia seems to be Hans J. Salter . The Sherlock Holmes series came out around the same time . It seems to me that the Sherlock Holmes riff was more well developed - but I bet Salter , if it was Salter just went into his filing cabinet of scores, and just copied the same part. Great score. with full orchestra.

I'm a great fan of the original Sherlock Holmes theme and score, as I am with these monster movie scores. Real orchestras, real scores, real musicians and real monsters..... No monster musical motifs, no monsters. They invented it, back in the day.

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Universal recycled a lot of their film scores to save money. The Wolf Man music was used in the Khakis movies for example. It's all good!

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