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THE FIRST-EVER MONSTROUS MOVIE MUSIC CONTEST HAS ENDED, AND THE WINNER is: TIM DAKURAS OF ILLINOIS!
Congratulations from all of us at Monstrous Movie Music, and we hope Tim enjoys his autographed Creature From The Black Lagoon score! To learn the answer to the question, please go to the bottom of the page. Stay tuned to this web site for the second-ever
Monstrous Movie Music contest! Win an autographed print of one of Herman Stein’s music scores from the classic
This prize is so fantastic that Herman himself is considering entering the contest! The winner will be the first person who e-mails or writes us with the correct answer!
QUESTION: In the film The Deadly Mantis, there is one piece of orchestral music that was originally written for a previous Universal film. Do you know what film it was written for, and in what scene in The Deadly Mantis it was re-used? (Hint: If you add up the number of people the mantis kills in the movie and divide the total by three, it will not help you at all, so don’t waste your time.) The winner will be notified on November 13th, and the correct answer will be posted on this page! Nobody even remotely associated with our label is eligible for this fabulous prize! (That includes people who’ve reviewed our CDs and others who have any professional relationship with us whatsoever.)
ANSWER: The mystery cue is “George’s Double,” heard in The Deadly Mantis when the Navy searches for the deadly airborne pest, courtesy of lots of stock footage, including an aircraft carrier. The sequence occurs right after Colonel Joe Parkman goes on TV and tells the ground observers how to identify the mantis (How about, “look for a really, really big bug?”), approximately 50 minutes into the movie. The cue was originally written by Henry Mancini for It Came From Outer Space, and can be heard about 37 minutes into that 1953 film when the real George (Russell Johnson) meets Zombie George (Zombified Russell Johnson) while Frank (about to become Zombified) looks on. The Deadly Mantis used 41 seconds of the 1:15 cue, taken from the beginning and end of the piece. |
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