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Max Steiner wrote a temporary score (main and end titles) for the picture with the understanding that RKO would get a "name" composer for the actual release. Well, that didn't happen and the film went out with Steiner's music and no credit.

I still have my complete set of Columbia editions from American Movie Classics on VHS. I've had the main and end titles printed to update my 16mm print of BLONDIE HAS SERVANT TROUBLES. Here are the titles:

I have 16mm prints of both THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (original release - the one TCM showed) and MAD WEDNESDAY (1950 tightened reissue). I did a side-by-side comparison of the two and uploaded it to Vimeo. Note the new footage of the singing horse created for the finale of MAD WEDNESDAY.

Paramount owns THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (due to remake) and EMKA/MCA Universal owns HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO. Universal also acquired the rights to MAD WEDNESDAY when they picked up the Howard Hughes library.

I have a nice 16 of DANGER WOMAN. It's pretty meh. I would much rather see THE CRIMSON CANARY released but there may be some music rights holding that one up.

Falk probably gave it the thumbs down with something like "it sounds like The Odd Couple!" I think the slow adoption of "This Old Man" as Columbo's motif was much more appropriate, but I'm glad it wasn't adapted into a main title theme. The Columbo's focus first on the criminal. In that way the...

I have to step in here as the sound restorationist on OUR TOWN. First, John, I did use iZotope tools in working on this track. The 35mm tracks we had to work with had myriad problems including significant noise-to-signal ratios (some reels worse than others) and varying levels of "whistle". I...

The SCARLET STREET 4K is definitely NOT an improvement. Kino's previous releases have been of the Library of Congress print which looks like it came from the camera negative. The new 4K appears to be from a dupe fine grain. The print itself is far too contrasty with hot spots galore. Also, the...

Thankfully the score to CAGED survived (in fine fidelity) in its entirety and it is the headline title in our 3-CD "DARK SIDE OF MAX STEINER" set.

While the films looked great I was very disappointed with the audio. Very heavy noise reduction was employed (there are a few moments where it was not and you can hear the radical difference) and nearly all the room tone was suppressed. I wish a more judicious approach to the clean up had been used.

For completists, here are, side by side, the original 1939 and 1947 reissue main titles (Universal, not Realart): Note the billing changes!

Correction - the sequence in (Thorndyke) Lansbury's office is about 57:45 into the picture.

Oh, no, the sequence after the main title on my video is almost four reels into the picture. The footage I posted is the sequence in the original release print and does NOT include the cut portion with the editors. If you go to that sequence on the DVD or Blu-ray you will see the sequence cut...

For those interested, here are the original MGM titles (I have a 16mm print). In addition to the titles, one major change was made for the reissue. The scene where Kay Thorndyke's editors resign en masse was NOT in the original release. I've included that section in the video so you can see what...

On the DVD the main title track had an insert from an alternate source for several seconds. Will be curious to see if an unblemished track has surfaced. Music was by Steiner and he reused the main title cue for KEY LARGO.

Best improvement is the soundtrack. Vastly superior to all previous incarnations. The dialogue was always okay but the music track was very flat. Not here. Bright and vibrant and comparable to Decca's original soundtrack LP.

THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING - remade as YOU SAID A MOUTHFUL with Joe E. Brown!

Thank you very much Patrick!

I bought the Kino DVD of THE STRANGER a while back because it listed "original theatrical trailer" among the extras. It turned out to be a faux trailer. The original survives and is on youtube. Can anyone tell me if any DVD or

Well, I have to say I am very disappointed in what they did to THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. Specifically, the original release version. They completely de-noised the soundtrack, robbing it of all room tone and ambience. You can compare it to the reissue (which they did not severely alter, thank...

BYU-FMA, Screen Archives Entertainment and Chelsea Rialto Studios are proud to announce the new 3-CD box set CAGED: THE DARK SIDE OF MAX STEINER. This historic album features music from seven films noir composed by Steiner during his Warner Bros. post-war period. In addition to CAGED, other...

The trailer was also restored. I assume this will also be on the blu-ray.

There is quite a bit of music among Max Steiner's acetates for THE GARDEN OF ALLAH that does not appear in the final cut of the picture, including a song sung by Dietrich. I suspect there was heavy editing before the final release. I'd have to check my print (LPP) but I believe the film was...

I just ran the blu ray in the Hichcock slipcover box set. Not only does it have the Universal logos but the sound is awful. Very flat fidelity. What a shame.

After watching the two episodes of TELESCOPE, seeing the incredible amount of effort that went into promoting the film and herding the press around; and having Fletcher Markle dwell on the lousy reviews, I was all the more sorry that Kramer didn't trim the film to it's shorter length for the...

Well, the most exciting things about this set (I bought the 5 disc combo) are the at-last appearance of the original intermission radio calls and the audio of the telephone scene between Spencer Tracy and Buster Keaton. Frankly, in my opinion, this is the only scene that should not have been...

I meant a Fox blanket license. Compositions for which extra-contract arrangements had to be made. NTA cut scenes from many Fox pictures because Fox did not control or have extended license for music in the films. Notorious examples are LAURA, JOHNNY APOLLO, WAKE UP AND LIVE and many others.

Cut from the original release were the scene with Katherine DeMille and Leroy Mason (and preceding footage when Gable asks Thomas Jackson where DeMille is); the rabbitt chase and subsequent campfire scene; The morning coffee scene where Buck returns; the clothes drying scene after the river...

We were able to produce our original soundtrack CD from the original scoring sessions.