In this episode of PLAY MORRICONE FOR ME, we explore a fun theme called “Vacations Gone Wrong” to an either horrifying or hilarious degree. (I feel like in movies, there are only those two extremes.) This is part one of a two-parter, and the second part will be along shortly. Stick around for selections from Morricone’s FRANTIC, Yared’s THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, Peake’s THE HILLS HAVE EYES, Revell’s DEAD CALM, and more.
Enjoy!
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Ennio Morricone - Frantic, Main Title
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The Royal Scottish National Orchestra cond. Joel McNeely - VistaVision Logo & Prelude (from The Man Who Knew Too Much)
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Alain Romans - How is the Weather in Paris (from M. Hulot’s Holiday)
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Ernest Gold - Away We Go! Banjo Eyes/Kareening Kooks (from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
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Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandel - Dueling Banjos (from Deliverance)
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Ralph Burns - The Trip (Theme from National Lampoon’s Vacation)
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Gabriel Yared - Crazy Tom (from The Talented Mr. Ripley)
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Jerry Goldsmith - The Dream (from Total Recall)
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Don Peake - Stealing the Baby/Lynne Is Shot/Finding the Walkie Talkie (from The Hills Have Eyes)
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Francois Tetaz - Abysmal Horizon (from Wolf Creek)
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Graeme Revell - End of the Killer (from Dead Calm)
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John Williams - T-Rex Rescue & Finale (from Jurassic Park)
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Lindsay Buckingham - Holiday Road (from National Lampoon’s Vacation)
Won’t lie I thought the first movie included was hella boring (one critic said that Hitchcock would’ve been raising the tension, whereas the director was having so much fun directing it he never really delivered on anything tense….wthere’s methodical and there’s just dull…