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= MANCINI SURROUND =

Mostly Monsters, Murders and Mysteries                                                 < Prev   -   Next >    

His first major score of darkly dramatic music was Touch of Evil (1958), with Orson Welles as a vicious policeman. Later came Experiment in Terror (1962), Wait Until Dark (1967) and The Night Visitor (1972). 

Fear(1990) is of like nature, with Ally Sheedy as a psychic employed by the police to track a killer, thereby placing her own life in peril. The film ends in an amusement park and Mancini's scoring sets the menace amid the calliope-like rhythms of a carousel.

The Man Who Loved Women

Burt Reynolds was The Man Who Loved Women (1983), fatally so, and Julie Andrews was the psychiatrist who gave his eulogy, which included an inference that the amorous nature of a male begins early and that men like this remain "Little Boys" when dealing with the ladies. It was up to Mancini to underline that piquant viewpoint. 

- TONY THOMAS

Photograph: The Man Who Loved Women (courtesy of Columbia Pictures)
Copyright  © 1983 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All rights reserved
 

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