Okay, this is strictly for Golden Agers. As many of you know, one of Universal's stock End Cast cues was Frank Skinner's "Strange Faces". I finally picked up a grey market copy of this 1938 quickie (you know it's a B when Frank Jenks is the star!) and put together the Main and End titles. Interestingly, the theme we know and love was only used for the Main Title and not for the End Cast.
Note about the audio. This was probably a DVD taken from an old "Blackie Seymour" 16mm transfer. Blackie was the only guy who could make a beautiful original Universal look and sound like a Monogram dupe. Anyway, here it is. Hopefully someday I'll track down a print and come up with a better track.
Sure brings back memories of all those Universal 'B's. Any chance Ray that you might have and post the music that opened most of their B westerns and western serials in the early '40's ? I am pretty sure it was first used in Randolph Scott's WHEN THE DALTON'S RODE.
Sure brings back memories of all those Universal 'B's. Any chance Ray that you might have and post the music that opened most of their B westerns and western serials in the early '40's ? I am pretty sure it was first used in Randolph Scott's WHEN THE DALTON'S RODE.
It's at 4:01:43 on Volume 4 of the Main Title Extravaganza that's at my youtube Channel rpf16mm
Sure brings back memories of all those Universal 'B's. Any chance Ray that you might have and post the music that opened most of their B westerns and western serials in the early '40's ? I am pretty sure it was first used in Randolph Scott's WHEN THE DALTON'S RODE.
It's at 4:01:43 on Volume 4 of the Main Title Extravaganza that's at my youtube Channel rpf16mm
Thanks for the very interesting post Ray. Love the colorful theme. Back in the early 1970's my old friend Lennie called this end credit theme: "get them out of the theater quickly" music. I can just imagine the theater patrons running to all the exit doors!
As Skinner's buddy Hans J. Salter says in our Cinefantastique interview, they were instructed by the studio heads to make the music lively, because, "You've got to wake them up!"
I never knew the source but I recognize as end credits in some of Universal's Sherlock Holmes series.
Thanks!
I have similar curiosity about Fox's Charlie Chan series, specifically the ones from the 1940s where Emil Newman was the musical director. Some of the end credits music sounds suspiciously like a different Newman...
