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Musical Connection with Rumpole of the Bailey


I happened to be watching episode 2 of the British TV series "Rumpole of the Bailey" the other night when I experienced a moment of deja vu connecting Rumpole with the movie this board is about ("The Gods Must be Crazy"). Now the Rumpole series has nothing whatever to do with Africa, the Kalahari, or Bushmen. It's about a middle-aged British barrister (ie a lawyer) and the court cases he deals with. However, during this particular episode, titled "Rumpole and the Alternative Society":

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0691355/

made during 1977/78 and set in 1970, Rumpole is defending a young woman from a drug dealing charge who lives in a hippy-like commune. At one point during the episode he has dinner with his client and some of the other members of the commune. Towards the end of that sequence the client gets Rumpole to read from a book of poetry (he's fond of quoting Wordworth himself). As she does so she turns on a recording of what the episode (IIRC) represents as Andean pipe music.

That was when I had my moment of deja vu. Because although we don't hear much beyond the opening notes, the pipe music she plays is (as far as I can tell) note-for-note the same as the theme music from "The Gods from Gods Must be Crazy"!

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Most, if not all, of the music used in this movie was licensed from the British library music company De Wolfe Music Ltd rather than specifically composed for it. As such it's not surprising the same cue showing up in two disparate productions.

That said good spot, tempted to go and get my Rumpole DVD boxed set just to see for myself.






Who's driving this plane? Stan Butler?

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