incidental music


The jazzy incidental music ruins it for me. Its a pity they didn't commission Joe Meek to compose the incidental music. It could have provided him with a fruitful new direction that saved his life.

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I tend to agree with you, the jazzy music takes away from the tention more than anything.

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I don't even remember thinking of it as jazzy. I just watched it yesterday. There was some butchered classical music (the Bach toccata during the robbery), and an awful "scary march" for the Robomen (so inferior to John Williams's Imperial March of the following decade). The rest was just garbage; sounded like it was written on the back of an envelope and recorded in haste.

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I have to disagree. I found it to be an excellent score, though the Robomen music cue is used way too often. There is nothing wrong with it, in and of itself, but it is beat into the ground.

"Fortunately, Ah keep mah feathers numbered for just such an emergency!"

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I always loved the music in this film (although I'd agree, the Robomen theme gets a bit monotonous).

It's funny, Bach's "Tocatta & Fugue In D Minor" was used at the start of both this film and "TALES FROM THE CRYPT" (another Amicus film with Peter Cushing).

The same piece was also used as the theme song of the 1932 DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE (the one with Frederic March), and of course, was the first pice of music heard in Disney's FANTASIA (1939).

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