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The InSneider says ...

Jeff, you should post one of these from post-1990. Challenge some of your younger readers like myself. There's no way I'm getting either one of these and I know my movie music fairly well.

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Kristopher Tapley says ...

Some reason I think the first one is "Giant." Maybe not.

comment #3

JoeGreenia says ...

The Best Years of Our Lives

comment #4

gruver1 says ...

Greenia gets it!

comment #5

Chuck Workman says ...

Hi Jeffrey - the first clip, the comment was right, is from Best Years of our Lives. The background effects are engines starting up, ghost engines actually, in a huge field of retired and rotting bombers. The music is by Hugo Friedhofer, who won an Oscar for this, and also wrote Meg Ryan and Rosie O'Donnell's favorite, An Affair to Remember.
The second clip is the main title from Bad and the Beautiful, by David Raksin, who also wrote Laura. He was a great guy, taught at USC until the end of his life, and deserves a lot more recognition. He was one of the best.
I used both clips in a film on the history of the movies I did for HBO and AFI, called The First 100 Years.

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Pinko Punko says ...

The second one did sound Laura-esque to me, but maybe that was just the instrumentation, I haven't seen enough movies to be on top of these.

That is a great comment, Chuck.

comment #7

Mgmax says ...

Are we ever going to get the answers from quiz #3, the one with the 60s Chinese-tinged theme that ISN'T The Sand Pebbles?

Wow, Chuck Workman. I have a feeling he's going to know his clips....

comment #8

Josh Massey says ...

Yeah, if Workman is playing, I'm out.

comment #9

Mgmax says ...

I believe the first tune is from "Classic Movies of Social Concern," by Workman, Oscar telecast 1998, and the second is from "Tribute to Mystery and Film Noir," by Workman, Oscar telecast 2002.

comment #10

Walter Sobchak says ...

Damn, I was late to the party!

I knew it from the first two seconds, one of my all-time top ten... Fred Derry mucking about in a junked B-17G... probably down in Long Beach somewhere.... (I do think the set dresser over-did the dust and the cobwebs, though... those planes couldn't have been sitting there more than eight or nine months... Imagine if they hadn't scrapped them... they'd be worth a lot of coin now...

And by the way, Best Years of Our Lives came out decades before I was born and I still have some knowledge and fondness for it as well as other films of that era.... In other words, try watching something made BEFORE you were born, or even (shock, horror!) something in black and white... just because you may be under thirty doesn't mean that your film knowledge should go back only as far as Empire Strikes Back....

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Mgmax says ...

I had seen both of these movies by the time I was 16.

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Mgmax says ...

And no, that wasn't in first release, by a few decades.

comment #13

gruver1 says ...

Wells to Workman: Chuck! We haven't spoken in a while! Good to hear the voice of a talented and very knowledgable fellow, and a good man.

comment #14

Chuck Workman says ...

Best Years has two other really lovely scenes, besides the one Jeff excerpted. When Fredric March returns to his apartment after the war and greets Myrna Loy, the shot is wide and the kids are on each side of the frame as they embrace. March's back is to us as he walks toward her. She wears an apron. And when March and Dana Andrews drop off Harold Russell and their cab pulls away, Russell waves goodbye to them. Again, in a wide shot, we see Russell's mechanical hands, his mother seeing that, his girl friend seeing that, and the Friedhofer music playing, and it's one of the great moments of American cinema. I think it's a tribute to the much parodied and maligned Sam Goldwyn that he understood enough about film to let Wyler shoot these moments this way, and leave them in the film that way, not cutting to fat emotional obvious closeups, but almost thrownaway realistic moments, a part of the texture of America in those postwar days, Those shots and others like it may be why we respond to the movie the way we do. I think it's one of the ten greatest American films, but that's another post.

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