It's a famous chase scene kind of song. I've heard it a lot. It's got the big horns and violins... Everyone recognizes it when it's played.
It's in the opening of the movie and is played a few other times.
WHAT'S THE NAME OF IT!????
I believe they use Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance".
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
Yes, it is Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance". He was an Armenian composer, hence also a Soviet composer, so perhaps that was one of the reasons for the choice of his music in a film satirizing Communism (among other things, such as the way Wilder, an Austrian, makes fun of the Germans). But, in line with the frenetic pace of that piece of music, the film does not really satirize the "evils" of Communism, but rather the utter and zany craziness of such a stupid system.
shareYou haven't really understood the movie, have you? It mocks all systems alike, making fun of all protagonists (Piffl for communism, MacNamara for capitalism and Schlemmer for militarism).
shareSchlemmer for militarism and of course the nazis! He is an old nazi, who denies to be that. Sitzen machen!!
shareenigma-e wrote: "You haven't really understood the movie, have you?"
I understood the film, fine, thank you. Perhaps you have difficulty understanding the phrase, "among other things,".
A version of the music is also in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. I just watched ONE TWO THREE recently I was then dying to know the song name and composer.
Thanks a bunch!
I always thought this music was "Flight of the Bumblebee" by composer Andre Previn
(one of Mia Farrow's ex-husbands).
It's the "Sabre Dance" from Gayaneh by Aram Katchaturian. Previn did the music for this film, so he may have altered it some. "Flight of the Bumblebee" is by Rimsky-Korsakov.
shareWhenever I hear this music, I'm immediately transported back to my childhood, watching Ed Sullivan and the dude making the plates spin!
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