I'm a great fan of Dimitri Tiomkin's later pop songs of the 1960s, but I find his refrain running through all the romantic scenes over and over again in I Confess -- a film that I like otherwise, and interpret as curiously sophisticated for Hitchcock -- really, really annoying.
shareI often lament the fact that Hitch didn't start working with Herrmann earlier. Both Strangers on a Train and I Confess would have benefited greatly from a Herrmann score.
shareI totally agree. There are so many otherwise excellent films from this period that are made less enjoyable by the excessive and constantly insistent music. It's almost like they think they have to substitute an orchestra for the old fashioned live piano music that accompanied silent movies.
In the 50's they also started sometimes having jazz background music, which is even more intrusive, because it seems so obviously aimed at saying "see how cool we are."
I so agree. I just watched this movie, and the music was similar to what you'd hear in a spoof flashback love scene (a la Airplane, to name one).
shareI am formerly known as HillieBoliday....Member since May 2006
On the contrary for me......I enjoy the mysteriousness the music contains. I think it lends another tension to a movie that is fraught with tension.
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"