aworks five-star track alert :: The T.V. Bernard Herrmann

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I don't remember this track from North by Northwest but it's a nice bit of ominous strings plus gratuitous but subtle percussion.

By the way, I watched a slice of Hitchcock's The Paradine Case on TCM tonight with the local eighty-six-year-old. Gregory Peck was so young. Wikipedia:

In 1946, it was announced that Alfred Hitchcock would direct the film, and that Laurence Olivier would star as the barrister, but Olivier eventually turned the project down, as he was preparing for his production of Hamlet. Hitchcock was also interested in Ronald Colman for the part, as well as Garbo (who had not yet turned down the project) or Ingrid Bergman for "Mrs. Paradine". Other actors who were considered for the film include: Maurice Evans, Joseph Cotten, Alan Marshal, James Mason for "Anthony Keane"; Hedy Lamarr for Mrs. Paradine; Claude Rains for "Lord Thomas Horfield"; and Robert Newton for Mrs. Paradine's lover. In the end, Hitchcock pushed for Gregory Peck, then at the peak of his box office appeal...

This post is is no way a slight of NxNW's Cary Grant, Hollywood's greatest actor.

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[David Irwin]

The score for North by Northwest includes some wonderful passages for the low clarinets--bass, etc. I believe he focused on a certain section each film.