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Apr 27, 2014 - 6:00 PM
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manderley
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It's strange that HUK should come up today. I was listening to the score the other evening.
I saw HUK when it came out in 1956---nearly 60 years ago! I remember very little about it except---it looked very cheap and somewhat slapdash and was one of, if not the first, George Montgomery films he made in the Philippines. (He would return there more than once in the ensuing years.)
When I looked it up on IMDB, I was astonished to see that as sterling a writer as Stirling Silliphant had done the original novel and script, and the wonderful Technicolor cameraman, William Snyder had done the photography. I was also very surprised to discover that the film was produced by the estimable Collier Young, and the credited director, John Barnwell, was, in reality, the legendary Philippines-based director, Eddie Romero. (He used this Barnwell pseudonym only several times, so there may have been some sort of union problem at that time, perhaps DGA/SAG, which disallowed George Montgomery to work with a foreign or non-union director unless the name could be disguised.)
I haven't played the Glasser score in decades and didn't really remember anything special about the music, so I was surprised how much I enjoyed it when I played it again.
BUT, in listening to the score and thinking about the film, I had to wonder if Glasser ever saw the actual film he scored. 
It's a nice score, but feels so wrong for the kind of material that the film purports to be.
Now I'm curious to see HUK again...... Viewing it once every 60 years can't hurt me too much, can it?
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The Bernard Hermann story Al told me years ago went like this. Al saw one of Hermann's films on television (I don't remember which one) and called Bernie to tell him how much he enjoyed the score. Hermann replied: "Yes, but what do you want?" Glasser said: "I just wanted to congratulate you on this fine score." Hermann replied: "Yes, but what do you want?" Glasser said: "Nothing, a--hole." and hung up.
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