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Topic: "Ministry of Fear" - Rozsa?
Marian Schedenig
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A friend of mine did a lecture about Ministry of Fear for university. The IMDb states Miklós Rózsa and Victor Young as composers, but his professor said that Rózsa did NOT score the movie. I haven't seen it myself, but I'm sure somebody here can clear this up.
posted 05-26-2000 03:07 PM PT (US) John C Winfrey
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Marian, that film title is not on any of my lists for Rozsa. That does not mean though that he didn't work on it. He may have. By the way, I hear his music from Brute Force and the Killers in UI westerns from the '50s on AMC all the time. One of these was Duel at Silver Creek with Audie Murphy. No duel in it and no Silver Creek in it. Strange title, huh? Best, John.
posted 05-26-2000 04:08 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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Hm, they are both credited for "Original Music". That friend of mine couldn't find any other source mentioning Rózsa either.Re strange titles: De Palma's The Fury is called Teufelskreis Alpha in the German version, which translates as something like Vicious Circle Alpha.
posted 05-26-2000 04:13 PM PT (US) Lou Goldberg
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I'm with John on this--I've seen the film and don't remember any Rozsa in it, whereas I'll see films like say the 1949 The Great Gatsby and catch music from Double Indemnity tracked in. The real "finds" are To Be and Not To Be which was originally scored by Rozsa and still retains a great parachute drop cue by him before being scored and credited to someone else and Drums, a British Korda film signed by John Greenwood but obviously scored by Rozsa in parts.Did you actually see Ministry of Fear as part of the lecture? I don't think it entirely works but it's fascinating to watch how doors open on other doors or passages and staircases to the point where the film becomes labyrinthine, how you don't really know if Ray Milland is crazy or not, how the sense of paranoia builds so that you don't even know if your own brother could be the killer (and--SPOILER ALERT-- of course it turns out he is!)
NP: L'Immortalita (Ennio Morricone)
[This message has been edited by Lou Goldberg (edited 26 May 2000).]
posted 05-26-2000 08:54 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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Lou, I've seen neither the film nor the lecture (although I'm sure it was interesting). He just asked me afterwards if I could find out that because his professor said Rózsa wasn't involved with it. Seems like it's really a bug in the IMDb.Thanks.
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